Forgivness and Communion

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So let’s assume that somebody has an argument with a person during the day and realizes that the other person is probably angry with them and they need to apologize. Then during the evening they go to Confession and immediately after they go to Mass. In light of Matthew 5:23-24 should this person refrain from Communion or not?
 
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Matthew 5:23
Therefore, if you shall offer your gift at the altar, and there shall remember that your brother has something against you,

Do I offer a gift at the altar?
 
So… should not refrain? I think the point was not partaking in religious worship whilst somebody has a quarrel with you that you did not do something to address.
 
Strictly speaking yes, we should make up with the person because we may be harbouring ill feeling which damages our relationship with God and the other too.
There is of course a forgiveness for venial sins within the mass though. And we may have confessed this prior to mass in which case we may have been absolved already.
 
Fair enough. So I guess you could say that intending to make up afterwards is good enough for reception?
 
I think yes that with the absolution which required contrition on your part should suffice. God knows your heart after all.

This has happened to me and following mass I have felt far more like apologising sincerely.
 
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We should pray the forgiveness prayer from the heart, because Jesus seen the heart and the intention ,if your not comfortable asking forgiveness directly form the person, and if the other person is hurt much, and presently not willing to speak or forgive, give him or her time. we should do it from the the heart, in the presence of Jesus in spirit, if still your conscience is not clear or not willing to forgive or hurt too much you can abstain from holy communion,we have to rely on Jesus merciful love, humbling our self by accepting and acknowledging our sin, rather than fault finding and then even, justifying in the confessional.

Acts 24:16 Therefore I do my best always to have a clear conscience toward God and all people.

Ephesians 4:26 Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and do not make room for the devil.
28 Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. 29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up,as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. 31 Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, 32 and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you

Hebrews 12:14 Pursue peace with everyone, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. 15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble, and through it many become defiled. 16 See to it that no one becomes like Esau, an immoral and godless person, who sold his birthright for a single meal. 17 You know that later, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent,even though he sought the blessing with tears.
 
I’m fine apologizing, might not know how to go about it without making it worse but will do it and I don’t think I justified it in the confessional, just said it and that’s all. I am just unsure about whether I should’ve taken Communion.
 
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its ok then, do not doubt the mercy of god ,it’s said to err is human and to forgive is divine so we should completely depend on and rely on Jesus ,for we are not fighting against fleshy and blood as in Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.Luke 23:34 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.”

”If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave His enemies, but even prayed His Heavenly Father to forgive them also. Let him remember that when he says the Pater Noster, every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is calling down vengeance on himself.”
–Saint Philip Neri

He who knows how to forgive prepares for himself many graces from God. As often as I look upon the cross, so often will I forgive with all my heart. (390)
–St. Faustina

‘To the extent that you pray with all your soul for the person who slanders you, God will make the truth known to those who have been scandalized by the slander.’
–St. Maximos the Confessor

For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no word, then pray - that too is mercy; and thirdly, deeds of mercy. And when the Last Day comes, we shall be judged from this, and on this basis we shall receive the eternal verdict.
–Saint Faustina Kowalska

This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.
–St. Thomas Aquinas

I am innocent and I die innocent. I forgive with all my heart those responsible for my death, and I ask God that the shedding of my blood serves toward the peace of our divided Mexico.
–Saint Cristobal just before his executioners fired

The Christian law commands that we forgive our enemies and those who have wronged us. I must therefore say here that I forgive Taikosama. I would rather have all the Japanese become Christians.
–Saint Paul Miki one of the Martyrs of Nagasaki

Avoid slander because it is difficult to retract. Avoid offending anyone for to ask forgiveness is not delightful.
–Saint John Cantius

“He passed over his fall, and appointed him first of the Apostles; wherefore He said: ’ ‘Simon, Simon,’ etc. (in Ps. cxxix. 2). God allowed him to fall, because He meant to make him ruler over the whole world, that, remembering his own fall, he might forgive those who should slip in the future. And that what I have said is no guess, listen to Christ Himself saying: ‘Simon, Simon, etc.’”
–Saint John Chrysostom
 
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