Is there any short-cut way to receive the Eucharist?

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The high point of the Mass is the Consecration, not the reception of Holy Communion. We don’t fulfill our Sunday obligation by merely going up to receive Holy Communion. Were that the case, then Catholics who attend Mass and are unable to receive would not be fulfilling their obligation to assist at the Holy Sacrifice.

A prelate and I were having a discussion over some coffee. A mutual priest friend of ours was saying that receiving Holy Communion was the high point. The prelate corrected him. It seems that the discussion was within the earshot of our local ordinary who also weighed in on the side of my prelate friend.

Love for Jesus and desiring union with Him is laudable, but, the main reason that we go to Mass is not to receive Our Lord. We go offer the Father the acceptable and pleasing sacrifice of His Only Begotten Son, in union with the Universal Church.

For properly disposed Catholics, Holy Communion is part and parcel, but, the Holy Sacrifice is completed once the celebrant consumes the Sacred Species, not when the communicant does. Were that the case, then, as I noted earlier, what about those Catholics who cannot receive? Please think about it.
 
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The high point of the Mass is the Consecration, not the reception of Holy Communion. We don’t fulfill our Sunday obligation by merely going up to receive Holy Communion. Were that the case, then Catholics who attend Mass and are unable to receive would not be fulfilling their obligation to assist at the Holy Sacrifice.

A prelate and I were having a discussion over some coffee. A mutual priest friend of ours was saying that receiving Holy Communion was the high point. The prelate corrected him. It seems that the discussion was within the earshot of our local ordinary who also weighed in on the side of my prelate friend.

Love for Jesus and desiring union with Him is laudable, but, the main reason that we go to Mass is not to receive Our Lord. We go offer the Father the acceptable and pleasing sacrifice of His Only Begotten Son, in union with the Universal Church.

For properly disposed Catholics, Holy Communion is part and parcel, but, the Holy Sacrifice is completed once the celebrant consumes the Sacred Species, not when the communicant does. Were that the case, then, as I noted earlier, what about those Catholics who cannot receive? Please think about it.
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This is correct. If simply receiving communion was the high point then all we would need is a brief communion service. My bishop believes so highly in the importance of participating in the sacrifice of the Mass that he has banned communion services in parishes in our diocese (they are allowed in nursing homes). The entire Mass prepares us to receive Communion, but even if one cannot receive, they have not missed the high point of Mass, that which is most important, praise and thanksgiving to the Father through the holy sacrifice on the altar.
 
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