excommunication question

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MaeganFlinchum1 said:
m.dummies.com/how-to/content/catholicism-excommunication-and-other-penalties.html
Is this website correct in saying that you can get excommunicated for having a pretend mass? Can someone go into a little detail for me?
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What is it you are not understanding regarding this?
MaeganFlinchum1 said:
] if an unbaptized person did something worthy of excommunication would they not be able to become Catholic, thanks replys are much appreciated
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No.

Exommunication is a canonical penalty that applies only to Catholic.
 
1ke said:
What is it you are not understanding regarding this?

No.

Exommunication is a canonical penalty that applies only to Catholic.
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What does it mean by a pretend mass?i heard of children( NOT that i child could be excommunicated) doing it before like a game…just something i read. Or does it mean a public thing?
 
MaeganFlinchum1 said:
What does it mean by a pretend mass?i heard of children( NOT that i child could be excommunicated) doing it before like a game…just something i read. Or does it mean a public thing?
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no it does not mean children, or even an adult, playing mass or pretending-- for example a teacher demonstrating mass in a religion class, etcc.

it means someone holding themselves out as a priest and simulating administration of the sacraments. the word used in canon law is simulation, not “pretend”.
 
1ke said:
no it does not mean children, or even an adult, playing mass or pretending-- for example a teacher demonstrating mass in a religion class, etcc.

it means someone holding themselves out as a priest and simulating administration of the sacraments. the word used in canon law is simulation, not “pretend”.
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Also would this have to be a public thing?? To a group?
 
When we were little kids (like 5 or 6 years old), my brother and I used to play “holy communion” all the time. I would take the center of a piece of WonderBread and smush it flat into a round “host”.

My brother was always the “priest” and I was the congregation.

I don’t think the Church would excommunicate children for “playing Mass” - playing is the way children process meaningful experiences.
 
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