Eucharisted… I was just curious about something.
I have a very strong desire to receive Holy Communion, daily… but I’m currently not able to… because I can’t get to Mass every day. I’m a caregiver to an elderly parent… and her schedule (personal needs) doesn’t allow for daily Mass.
We do manage to get to daily Mass twice a week, though… and also receive Holy Communion one additional day, through an Extraordinary Minister, who visits our home.
Would you consider membership of someone like me?
Yes, you may join the Legion of Peace, because you go as daily as you can. And let me clarify that daily Communion is not a mandatory; the only mandatory is to go to Mass on the Holy Days of Obligation - of which Sunday is the Primary Holy Day - and to recieve the Eucharist at least during the Easter season.
And also let me clarify that sin or trivial matters do not give one permission to “go as daily as you can.” In other words, a member cannot skip daily Communion simply because he or she is in the middle of committing of sin, or because he or she is engaging in a trivial matter (for example, games, partying, television, etc.), and than say “I can be a Legionary because I go as daily as I can”. No, sin and trivial matters do not excuse one from the Legionary obligation. However, works of charity and grave matters (for example, sickness, death, pregnancy) would excuse one from receiving the Lord daily; in other words, they would still be a Legionary, because they go as daily as they can.
The Legion of Peace is simply a movement, and as such, is not suppose to be the focus of one’s life; it is only meant to help the Church, as all movements are. So don’t trouble yourself over whether or not you can receive the Lord daily and still become or remain a Legionary; if you do what you can, without using sin or trivial matters as an excuse from the obligation (as clarified above), you are welcome to join the Legion and can still be a Legionary.
Now, all of this is my private reflection, and as such, dose not hold the same weight as the judgment of the Church. So, if the Church judges that a Legionary must do something else which I have spoken of, than the Legionary must obey, because he or she is a Catholic - a Catholic first and a Catholic last - and every Catholic must honor his or her Holy Mother, as commanded by the Lord.
I hope this helps
