How many times can you receive Eucharist on one day?

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If you go to mass twice in one day can you receive both times or only once?
 
No more than twice - but you must actively participate in both masses.
 
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Oh okay. No I went to the EF mass this morning but my mom asked me to go tonight with her to OF mass so I didn’t know if I could receive twice is all.
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Certaianly if you participate. Part of the reason is to stop certain folks from just popping into the communion procession for a “quick Eucharist” before going on their way. And also for those with scrupulosity or OCD who feel compelled to receive many times per day.
 
I think the actual rule is, twice is permitted, but the second time must be at Mass. This would cover someone who received at home because they were a carer for someone ill when they had been brought Holy Communion, but who later had the chance to go to Mass.
 
Non-priests can receive up to 3 times in a day. The second must be at mass and the third must be when dying or in danger of death.
 
I think this needs to be clarified a bit. One may receive twice in one day as long as the second is at Mass. If dying or in danger of death, one can receive a third time.
 
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Yes to @horton’s clarification, and there’s no difference in the law here between laity and clergy (@exdrinker); clergy can be permitted an exception for pastoral reasons (i.e., the parish priest can be permitted to celebrate three Sunday Masses wherein he must receive at each).
 
Communion - How many times per day?

Redemptionis Sacramentum #95 “A lay member of Christ’s faithful “who has already received the Most Holy Eucharist may receive it again on the same day only within a Eucharistic Celebration in which he or she is participating, with due regard for the prescriptions of can. 921 § 2.”[182]”
“[182] Cf. Code of Canon Law, can. 917; Pontifical Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law, Response to Dubium, 11 July 1984: AAS 76 (1984) p. 746.”
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Can. 917 and Can. 921§2

On Receiving Communion Multiple Times answered by Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and dean of theology at the Regina Apostolorum university.
 
Perhaps I am overly-broad in my idea of “going to mass”, but if one shows up while communion is being administered and is otherwise properly disposed, there is nothing preventing one’s first reception of the day.

Ie one must participate at Mass for a second reception, but need not for the first.
 
Titivillus said:
Perhaps I am overly-broad in my idea of “going to mass”, but if one shows up while communion is being administered and is otherwise properly disposed, there is nothing preventing one’s first reception of the day.

Ie one must participate at Mass for a second reception, but need not for the first.
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That is correct. A person who is in a state of grace and properly disposed to receive could in fact simply arrive at Church and walk straight into the Communion line and receive Communion.
If they were to receive a second time it would require normal attendance at Mass.
 
The norm is two but there are circumstances when it could be three. The first can be any legitimate way in which one can receive Holy Communion. The second time should be a Mass in which you actively participate. A second time could possibly be as Viaticum. Viaticum is the only way you could receive a third time providing the first and second time were not Viaticum.
 
Seems to me like you can receive the sacrament each time you to go Mass. If you attend Mass five times on a Sunday, you should be able to partake in the sacrament five times.
 
No. The law clearly says that you may receive twice, so long as the second time is within the context of Mass.

-Fr ACEGC
 
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No more than twice - but you must actively participate in both masses.
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No more than twice - but you must actively participate in both masses.
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But neither is correct.

When my parents were sick and staying at my house, the priest would come and give them Communion. He would also offer Communion to me.

I could receive at that time. And then I could go to Mass and receive again.

As long as the SECOND time is during Mass, I can receive twice.

(The third time being if I was then in danger of dying.)
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