Communion at home

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I’m not sure what you mean by “fair”. Priests can celebrate Mass, you – presumably a lay person – cannot. Do you want them to stop celebrating Mass entirely?
 
Of course not. I’m very happy priests celebrate Mass every day. I simply wish I personally could receive the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ in sacramental form. I am not allowed to because of the Corona Virus restrictions. I am not allowed to go to Mass. Jesus said his flesh is real food and his blood is real drink. But I am allowed to receive it only “virtually”.
 
typewriterman1 said:
Jesus said his flesh is real food and his blood is real drink. But I am allowed to receive it only “virtually”.
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You can’t receive His body and blood when in mortal sin. You presumably can’t receive His body and blood when you can’t go to Mass on days when a pandemic isn’t ravaging humanity. We all wish we could receive Him, but we also don’t want to get other people sick and potentially kill them either. We are in a very long Good Friday right now. These aren’t good times, but we can use them to deepen our appreciation of the Blessed Sacrament and thank Jesus for what He has done, and how eager we are to receive Him again.
 
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You can’t receive His body and blood when in mortal sin.
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Of course not but I am not in the state of mortal sin. It just seems ludicrous that I am allowed to sit in our church to pray today - as long as I stay 6’ away from others. And our priest is even available for face-to-face confession. But not Mass.
 
How is it ludicrous? Really, do you not understand what is going on in the world?

It is beyond me how anyone would only still be thinking about themself at this point, and how it affects them. It affects everyone. But there is nothing we can do about it except wait.
 
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It just seems ludicrous that I am allowed to sit in our church to pray today - as long as I stay 6’ away from others. And our priest is even available for face-to-face confession. But not Mass.
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I can’t say why your priest is allowing face to face confession, though presumably there’s at least 6 feet of distance between you both, but sitting in church to pray doesn’t require you to stick out your tongue nor your hands for the priest to touch. Not only that, but if Mass was going on, people such as yourself, sick or not, would attend, and potentially spread the disease to others. Your priest could also get sick, and now there are no Masses celebrated at all.
 
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It is beyond me how anyone would only still be thinking about themself at this point, and how it affects them.
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I appreciate your judgement. However I am not thinking only of myself, but of everyone who longs for the true body and blood of Jesus on a daily basis. I am certain that something could be devised which would allow people to receive it.
 
I did not judge you, you spoke in first person. You said I. If your concern is that you cannot receive and I was addressing that, it is not a judgment.

Not sure what you think could be “devised.”
Again, physical contact between priest and mass goers is not supposed to happen, and to receive communion, it is going to happen.
 
I understood from a priest recetnly that “virtually receiving Christ” refers to the act trusting Him and pray for His help.and depend on Him (mentally) when one goes through challenges. Since the Eucharist is an actualisation of the Last Supper, God temporarily suspending the rules that still.hold together Earth as separate from.Heaven so that He can come in us, literally, and hug us, help us, the same thing can happen when we go through a deep struggle in life and pray and trust Him and have faith in Him.
The Eucharist makes this thing happening regardless of our mind disposition at the time of receiving Him, or even of our faith when doing so since it’s the Highest Mystery of the Church. The virtual Eucharist described above requires effort from us, is not by default happening a great Mystery, but in a way it is ever more rewarding when it happens because your effort was found pleasing by God.
I found this very helpful hope it helps others. I am.imagining that this is the way the saints of the OT were receiving God, by prayer and personal effort and facing the struggles of life, like going through a storm and praying and trusting God no matter what happens next.
 
I can think of several ways people can receive Holy Communion without actually “touching” a priest.
 
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typewriterman1 said:
I can think of several ways people can receive Holy Communion without actually “touching” a priest.
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Again, do you think the very men who consecrate and distribute communion on a daily basis didn’t think this through when they made that decision?
 
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Folks, There is no such thing as a “virtual” Mass or “virtual” Communion. (I know, I used the terms myself above, but I intended the usage snarko-ironically)

There are broadcast Masses and there are recorded Masses.

You can receive Communion when the consecrated elements are proffered by the competent minister. You can make a Spiritual Communion when they are not.

Not virtual.
 
The Catholic Church has evolved far from the community described in Acts of The Apostles. In its wisdom, only a sacramentally ordained priest can consecrate the body and blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ. So it does seem “unfair” that we can not all consecrate and receive, since through our baptisms we have been called to be “PRIESTS, prophets and kings”. But how many of us live our lives sacrificially “as priests”, fully committed to serving God and the church?

That said, LIFE IS NOT FAIR, but we trust that God is good and just, and uses everything for the greater Good. Our place is to patiently “wait on the Lord”, trust in His ways, give thanks for ALL we are given, carry our crosses, glorify Him in all we do, love God and neighbor, and pray…

What a long fast this has been…how sweet will be the next Eucharist we receive!
 
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I offer it up for all of the Catholics in this world who live in dangerous and or remote areas and spend months or years, or decades, without the ability to go to Mass.
 
The priest who are offering private mass are doing it for the spritiual well being of the faithfull. Just like monks who pray all the time do for the Church.
A priest is the only one who can conscrecrate the Host. A lay person cannot. Nothing to do with fairness, just the truth of the matter.
 
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