Holy Communion in a state of mortal sin

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This is what I thought. Thanks for confirming that. The OP’s case is one of misunderstanding then.
 
Yes I have been in that situation and the priest was the one ok with it. The people in the pews different story: judgmental, holier than thou attitude, even hurtful comments. Whatever, peer pressure is to be ignored.
 
Father, if you believe you’re probably in a state of Grace, but have a doubt, is it better to receive or refrain? I suppose the answer to that question may depend how scrupulous the individual is…
 
Oh yes. And it’s not just my current parish I’ve been to many and common thing. It’s sad to see the odd time someone not going and you overhear people whispering and such. Why don’t they focus on themselves and have to judge I wonder.
 
I would think if you think you’re “probably” in a state of mortal sin, it would be better to sit it out. But if think you’re “probably” in a state of Grace, but aren’t 100% sure, I’m not certain.
 
Some people probably mean well in the sense that confession is there, shame on you. But hey, some people like me have a higher standard I needed to reach a sate of perfect contrition before confession and that takes time.
 
If you didn’t receive but were beckoned by an altar server during the middle of Mass (very visibly, I presume), you might not have had full consent of the will since you were torn and didn’t want to make a scene in the Mass. So that may not (note: my opinion only) have been a mortal sin.

However, as others have said, get to confession.
 
usually comments the sense of which is ‘I don’t understand why you don’t just go to confession like everyone else’
 
I see, so these are probably people who do not do an examination of conscience. Or, dang, you must have killed a lot of people and not made it to confession.
 
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The priest, on the other hand, just looked at me and said: perfect contrition, ok… take your time then… perfectly fine.
 
Others have given good advice, say a good act of contrition and confess as soon as possible.

It was a heat of the moment type decision, don’t beat yourself up over it too much. Obviously you are very contrite.
 
Scripture would say so. In part, this is why we have confession as a ministerial function of the Church; we reconcile with God and the entire body of Christ.
 
That’s just awful. I’ve stayed in the pews for not being in a state of grace, for questioning my state of grace, for not having kept the eucharistic fast and for having had communion at an earlier mass. My first thought about others is they already had communion that day or ate too close to mass.
 
Dan_Defender said:
some people like me have a higher standard I needed to reach a sate of perfect contrition before confession and that takes time.
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While laudable, that doesn’t sound like a good idea. Fear of hell or the loss of heaven is sufficient and it seems presumptuous to assume you’ll live to the time you’re able to work to what you believe to be perfect contrition, which from my understanding is rare and extremely difficult.
 
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