Is it a sin to not take the communion in weekday masses?

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Hmm, I never knew that. Is there a reason that the faithful became uncomfortable with frequent reception?
 
Waiting for your brother so he can be at a wedding party is not a good reason to put off confession.

Surely your bother would want you to do the right thing and put the Lord first.
 
I don’t understand that either. It is a joy and great help to receive the Eucharist!
 
Is one who receives it, say, once a month better off in any way than someone who receives it only once a year?
 
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Hmm, I never knew that. Is there a reason that the faithful became uncomfortable with frequent reception?
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There were a lot of reasons, some of which are discussed in this EWTN article.
http://www.ewtn.com/library/Liturgy/zlitur576.htm

For centuries, Communion being distributed to the faithful other than the priest himself wasn’t necessarily considered an essential part of the Mass, the Church imposed a lot of restrictions on receiving it beyond just having been to confession, and people thought they could just do Eucharistic Adoration instead. Even when you went to confession, you weren’t always just allowed to go receive Communion. I remember reading that St. Catherine of Siena would beg and plead with her confessor to please give her the green light to receive Communion. If a person like her, striving to live a very holy life, had trouble getting permission to receive, imagine how hard it was for Joe Average Catholic to ever get to receive until maybe he was on his deathbed.

Later on Jansenism also caused people to think they weren’t good enough to receive Jesus.

The Nine First Fridays, which requires you to receive Communion on nine consecutive first Fridays, and was based on a private revelation from Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, was viewed as an encouragement to frequent Communion and was controversial for that reason as well as other reasons.
 
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As well as the need to be in a state of grace, another important factor is whether or not a person has observed the required one hour fast from food and drink apart from water before receiving Communion.
 
In the old school it was the practice of confession before communion. And then fasting from midnight which was shortened later to three hours before Mass.

It is thus easy to see why very few received.

Now it seems to be a cultural thing. At English Masses, for example, virtually everyone receives, whereas in Spanish and Polish Masses, not so many.
 
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