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brendenseth
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If someone went to Saturday mass and the went to the same one on Sunday can you receive the Eucharist twice?
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1ke
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Two different days. Yes.
In general, you may receive up to two times in one day, provided the second time is at a mass you attend. (In danger of death, further allowances apply per canon law).
But you asked about two different days, which is never a problem.
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ProVobis
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And provided that you are properly disposed, of course.
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peter26
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A Saturday vigil does not count as Sunday for the purposes of the 2 a day limit on receiving.
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1ke
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Yes, you may receive Saturday morning and then again Saturday evening at mass.
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peter26
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Receiving at two Masses in one day (properly disposed) is always acceptable. Saturday Vigil counts as Saturday not Sunday as far as the limit on 2 receptions is concerned. E.g. I regularly go to the vigil Mass on Saturday evening and then two Masses back to back Sunday morning (NO and then Ordinariate use). I can and do receive at all three.
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FrDavid96
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Saturday morning and the Sunday Mass on Saturday evening are two different days as far as the Church’s liturgy is concerned. Receiving on Saturday morning would have nothing to do with whether or not you can receive at the Sunday Masses.
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Brendan
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That came up with me last weekend. I had gone to our parish’s Saturday morning Mass, and went to a funeral Mass at noon and another parish.
We had an injury with one of our kids, so my wife and I had to split up Masses for Sunday. I went to the Saturday evening anticipatory Mass.
My assumption was exactly was you stated, that it was liturgically a separate day, but I did confirm that with my pastor prior to Mass
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ProVobis
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So you received three times within a midnight to midnight day? Interesting.That came up with me last weekend. I had gone to our parish’s Saturday morning Mass, and went to a funeral Mass at noon and another parish.
We had an injury with one of our kids, so my wife and I had to split up Masses for Sunday. I went to the Saturday evening anticipatory Mass.
My assumption was exactly was you stated, that it was liturgically a separate day, but I did confirm that with my pastor prior to Mass
If one uses the argument that the liturgical day is applicable here, how is it that one is allowed to receive once during a vesper Mass and twice during two Sunday Masses, making that three times during a liturgical day? Seems that two different standards are used. IMO
I’m presuming you received at all the Masses you attended. I’m not accusing you of anything, mind you.
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babochka
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What if a person attended Saturday evening Mass, Sunday morning, and Sunday evening? Would that count as one day, or two?
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FrDavid96
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First of all, I’m going to ask you: do you intend that as a serious question?
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ProVobis
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Basically the same question I had in #10.
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FrDavid96
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And since you’ve already stated that anyone who views this from the point of a liturgical day is using “two different standards” all the more reason for me to ask you the same question: Is it a serious question?, and do you want a serious answer and an adult-level discussion about the topic?
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babochka
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Yes, Father, I do mean this as a serious question.
It is obviously an unlikely scenario, and the question is only intended to satisfy my curiosity. I’m quite certain that I will never have a need for this knowledge, but it is an interesting question to me. For Sundays, the liturgical day begins with Vespers on Saturday, correct? But fasting, for example, is reckoned from midnight to midnight. I had always assumed that, for the purposes of receiving the Eucharist, the limit of twice per day was determined from midnight to midnight. But your comment (I think it was yours, anyway) that the Saturday morning Mass would be considered to be on a separate day than the Saturday evening Mass made me wonder, to use the terminology of ProVobis, which standard applies: midnight to midnight, or Vespers on Saturday to midnight on Sunday. I’m not thinking in terms of a “double standard”, but that there are different ways of reckoning.
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ProVobis
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Yes, it was serious. I know we’ve discussed it before but the poster included a funeral Mass in the mix, if I can call it that.
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Bookcat
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yes. Two different days (Reception of Holy Communion is based on the 24 hour 12 to 12 clock).
And even if one had gone that same day in the morning one could go again if the second Holy Communion is during a Mass one participates in (one is not just walking through the Church at Communion time…etc).
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ProVobis
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From the standpoint of receiving three times on Saturday and twice more on Sunday, I guess I won’t be too likely to be doing that, so I admit not to be that serious. But I’d like to hear what you have to say on the matter anyway, when you have the time.
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FrDavid96
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Today is a busy day. I am considering starting a thread in the Water Cooler on this topic.
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FrDavid96
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That is your opinion.
In contrast to that, on several occasions Vatican Congregations have issued official Instructions that follow the liturgical day, not the calendar day.
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