Could They Recieve Communion?

[vanessa.crofelli]

Happy Easter! I asked about this topic a while ago and I’m still interested to hear peoples thoughts. I was teaching youth group at my church and a teen in my group asked me this question and I was not sure how to give her a reply:
So let’s say there were 2 young girls who were friends who were fooling around. They committed homosexual acts. One of the girls knew it was wrong and against their faith and knew they could go to hell but went ahead and did it anyways. They were both children and did not understand how grave the matter was.
The girl who knew it was wrong received her first communion a couple months later and did not confess what had happened in Reconciliation. The girl continued to recieve Communion for a couple years and still didn’t confess it. Finally, after a number of years after she realized how grave her actions were she went to a priest and confessed to homosexual acts and taking communion with a grave sin on her heart.

Would she be able to still recieve Communion since she confessed serious sins and is now in a state of grace even though her first one was with grave sins on her heart?

 

[CilladeRoma]

Would she be able to still recieve Communion since she confessed serious sins and is now in a state of grace even though her first one was with grave sins on her heart?

Simple answer, yes, the person can receive communion.

If there are still questions, please advise your friend to take them to a priest, not an internet forum. You will get many often contradictory and often very confusing answers here. A priest is your best choice.

Peace be with you & Happy Easter!

 

[Vico]

One of the girls knew it was wrong and against their faith and knew they could go to hell but went ahead and did it anyways. They were both children and did not understand how grave the matter was.

One can only go to hell for mortal sin and it shows grave recklessness to not avoid a grave sin. The only thing then that would make is not a mortal sin is if it was done involuntarily or with partial consent – due to some mitigating factor such as emotional immaturity.

Catechism

1746 The imputability or responsibility for an action can be diminished or nullified by ignorance, duress, fear, and other psychological or social factors.

2352 … To form an equitable judgment about the subjects’ moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability.

 

[PaulfromIowa]

Would she be able to still recieve Communion since she confessed serious sins and is now in a state of grace even though her first one was with grave sins on her heart?

The answer is yes. Once she is absolved, she is back in a state of grace and should receive Communion.