Planning to sin - receive communion?

[hyacinth]

Thanks for the replies! One more question, though. So if I would get drunk but not to the point of being unable to decide right from wrong, do I even have to go to confession for it?

 

[Vico]

Thanks for the replies! One more question, though. So if I would get drunk but not to the point of being unable to decide right from wrong, do I even have to go to confession for it?

Catechism of the Catholic Church (Second Edition)

Respect for health

2288 Life and physical health are precious gifts entrusted to us by God.
We must take reasonable care of them, taking into account the needs of others and the common good.
Concern for the health of its citizens requires that society help in the attainment of living-conditions that allow them to grow and reach maturity: food and clothing, housing, health care, basic education, employment, and social assistance.

2289 If morality requires respect for the life of the body, it does not make it an absolute value.
It rejects a neo-pagan notion that tends to promote the cult of the body, to sacrifice everything for it’s sake, to idolize physical perfection and success at sports.
By its selective preference of the strong over the weak, such a conception can lead to the perversion of human relationships.

2290 The virtue of temperance disposes us to avoid every kind of excess: the abuse of food, alcohol, tobacco, or medicine. Those incur grave guilt who, by drunkenness or a love of speed, endanger their own and others’ safety on the road, at sea, or in the air.

2291 The use of drugs inflicts very grave damage on human health and life. Their use, except on strictly therapeutic grounds, is a grave offense. Clandestine production of and trafficking in drugs are scandalous practices. They constitute direct co-operation in evil, since they encourage people to practices gravely contrary to the moral law.

 

[TheLittleLady]

How about thinking this way.

I am going to the party. I have arranged a designated driver or have funds for an Uber.

I am going to eat a substantial meal and have some wine with my meal.

After the meal, I will have a cocktail. I may have another cocktail if I feel like it.

Set your own limits that will keep you out of the dangerous drinking zone:

“I will not do shots”

“I will leave if things that are unbecoming to a Christian start up” (if they decide to go to a strip club, inappropriate games, etc.)

You CAN go and have fun and be an example that a Christian can act like a Christian and have a good time!

 

[HeDa]

OP It’s like a man planning to kiss his wife when he comes home and then punch her in the face.

 

[AZ42]

So if I would get drunk but not to the point of being unable to decide right from wrong, do I even have to go to confession for it?

That is presumption. You shouldn’t say " I’ll go sin then confess it later", as you are not really sorry for your sin, or you wouldn’t do it in the first place. But yes, getting drunk like that is a mortal sin.

 

[Thrstypirate]

I think it’s more along the lines of “so that’s just venially sinful not mortally sinful, right” than presumption.

 

[MountCarmel]

hyacinth - Planning on getting ‘blitzed’ on drink and compromising your 'God given mental faculties ', in the knowledge that doing so will also put you in a vulnerable cognitive situation where drug taking and promiscuity can more likely occur, is not the mental/spiritual situation to be in before, during and post-Communion. Indeed, it is not a frame of mind to be in at any time.

 

[hyacinth]

Yes, that’s what I’m asking, thanks! Let’s say I receive communion without any plans or desires or thoughts of getting drunk, but the next weekend rolls around and I go out drinking and do get drunk but still am able to tell right from wrong. I’m wondering if I need to confess that, since it doesn’t seem to be a mortal sin.