Noticed many people receive the Eucharist during a Funeral Mass who clearly were unworthy to receive

[englishredrose]

Being judgemental is one thing, but in these cases it may also be a scandalous act and someone IMO should address this before it becomes the the accepted “norm.” Just saying.

In such cases and if you are worried then a discrete and tactful word with the priest and thats all one needs to do and pray and hope, of course.

 

[SuperLuigi]

If I had been at that wedding I would have gone with every intention of **not ***receiving Communion because I am not Roman Catholic but that slip of paper with that instruction would have annoyed me so intensly I would have received anyway. Let God be our judge, not each other

Then I would have hoped than an ordained minister would have blessed you instead of giving you Communion.

If your emotional state doesn’t allow you to observe our rules, I wouldn’t want you at my wedding in the interest of preventing a grave sin.

When we as Catholics tell others the circumstances under which one can receive Communion, it should be done as act of love. My concern was that the obligation feel to me since neither celebrant seemed too concerned about it.

Now, if that makes you so terribly angry as to infringe on someone else’s religious beliefs, I think perhaps you need to examine your own life and see if some kind of anger management would be helpful. It became rather clear to me that a lot of folks just ignored it, except ironically, for a Lutheran family I invited, but I think they knew ahead of time.

Why do I doubt that if the circumstances were similar for a Muslim event, you wouldn’t be so as eager to desecrate the event even in silence?

 

[englishredrose]

Then I would have hoped than an ordained minister would have blessed you instead of giving you Communion.

If your emotional state doesn’t allow you to observe our rules, I wouldn’t want you at my wedding.

Why do I doubt that if the circumstances were similar for a Muslim event, you wouldn’t be so as eager to desecrate the event even in silence?

excuse me please but read the above posts before continuing to condem me

 

[SuperLuigi]

How sad that you would have done such a thing out of spite. I pray that you will think about your response and how pride is a great sin. How you posted that you would have done this, in this forum, just show us Catholics that you would have in effect, desecrated the Eucharist just to spite someone, for excluding you. But it’s what we believe, and many of our Church have not been properly catechized and half of them need more instruction in our faith. I went to a funeral of a friend, she was Anglican but quite a few of my friends are Catholic. Every one of them except me went up to receive, although we cannot do so in an Anglican church. Thus you see that a reminder is not out of place.

This is not the best of who you are, englishredrose.

Simply telling someone about the rules isn’t being judgemental. She’s just using that term out of Western political correctness.

It’s often misunderstood, overused and overrated.

 

[Vico]

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I like the phrase in our Mass setting, Anglican Church that says “Lord I am not worthy to receive you but only say the word and I shall be healed”. Very last thing we say next to communion which means of course that everyone is worthy of receiving communion because God has Healed them/us and whatever has gone off before is healed by God.
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Such a different meaning for the Anglican than the Catholic! Catholic teaching is that in this sacrament, the healing of serious sins does not occur. Only those that are in a state of sanctifying grace prior to reception (i.e., properly disposed) receive the efficacy of the Holy Spirit.

That prayer is from Matt 8:8, an expression of the greatest faith, and Christ commented on this faith in Matt 8:10. It was made by the Centurian for the healing of his servant, *KJV Matthew 8:5-11:

• 5 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
  6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
  7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
  8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
  9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
  10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
  11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.

Haydock commentary (on the Douay-Rheims Challoner) on 8, 10:

8 Origen says, when thou eatest and drinkest the body and blood of our Lord, he entereth under thy roof. Thou also, therefore, humbling thyself, say: Domine, non sum dignus; Lord, I am not worth, &c. So said S. Chrysostom in his mass, Litturg. Græc. sub finem; and so doth the Catholic Church say at this day in every mass. See S. Augustin. Ep. cxviii. ad Janu. B. — See Luke vii. 6.

10 Christ here compares the faith of the centurion with that of the people in general, and not with that of his blessed mother and the apostles, whose faith was beyond a doubt much greater. M. — The Greek says, “neither in Israel.” — Jesus hearing this, marvelled. That is, by his outward carriage, says S. Aug. seemed to admire: but knowing all things, he could not properly admire any thing. — I have not found so great faith in Israel. This need not be understood of every one, but of those whom he had cured. Wi.