May I recieve the Eucharist tomorrow?

[Hotchkiss]

“… but you can engage in a spiritual communion with Jesus and you are welcome at the great majority of Catholic parishes to process up for a blessing from a priest or deacon during communion.”

Hotchkiss, please let us not start again this business of joining the Communion line just to get a blessing from the Priest. After all the discussion on this forum about this practice I thought it was understood that one does not enter the Communion line unless one is going to receive the Holy Eucharist.

Everyone receives a blessing from the Priest at the end of the Mass. If the OP wishes to have an individual blessing then he should approach the Priest after Mass.

I recommend that the OP search out some prayers for a Spiritual Communion and pray one of those while remaining in his pew during the period when Communion is being distributed.

I do apologize for leading this thread astray. I had no idea this matter was so divisive on this forum.

I just follow my bishop. If I were in a situation where I could not receive Holy Communion in my home diocese I would most certainly accept my bishop’s most gracious offer to receive a blessing during communion. An offer he has the authority to make.

That’s all I will say on the matter.

 

[thistle]

I’m still a little confused by people lining up to get a blessing from the priest.
Why didn’t they go to Confession so they can line up for Communion instead of lining up to get a pat on the head for being a sinner?

 

[NPC]

I’m still a little confused by people lining up to get a blessing from the priest.
Why didn’t they go to Confession so they can line up for Communion instead of lining up to get a pat on the head for being a sinner?

Well, the bottom-line is that everyone receives a blessing from the priest at the end of Mass, so there really is no reason why people should seek a blessing at Communion time.

As to why they didn’t go to Confession - in relation to the O.P. it simply doesn’t apply since they have not yet gone through a formal initiation process, and so have not experienced the Sacrament of Reconciliation. For Catholics, however, perhaps there was genuinely no opportunity to confess their sins - if this is the case, at least they are giving due reverence to the Eucharist by not receiving while in a state of ungrace. Even so, this does not mean that they should approach the altar-rails anyway - they would be better off staying where they are and making a spiritual Communion and praying for a contrite heart, as well as receiving the blessing at the end of Mass. This is something that everyone could do, including the O.P.

 

[benedictgal]

I do apologize for leading this thread astray. I had no idea this matter was so divisive on this forum.

I just follow my bishop. If I were in a situation where I could not receive Holy Communion in my home diocese I would most certainly accept my bishop’s most gracious offer to receive a blessing during communion. An offer he has the authority to make.

That’s all I will say on the matter.

It is not up to your bishop to grant. With all due respect, your bishop cannot overrule what the Holy See has already said. What part do you not understand about that?

I have already given you proof in the authoritative documents of the Church that no individual has the right to add anything to the Mass, including the bishop. It is not a gracious offer that he extends, although, it may be a well-intentioned, but, misguided attempt.

What makes this issue divisive, as I see it, is the apparent refusal of people to take serious stock in what the CDWDS says.