[POLL] How much time do you fast before Holy Communion?

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I go to daily Mass and do the obligatory 1 hour. I think it would be very very hard for people who are not monks, nuns, or friars to do the old “fast from Vespers til Communion” every day.

I guess it depends on when the Mass is. I fast from all food for 12 hours on Fridays, so if I went to a Mass Friday night it would be good - but I don’t necessarily do fasts like that with the intention of fasting for the Eucharist. If they line up then perfect.
 
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is the obligation supposed to be “one hour” before the start of Mass or “one hour” before the distribution of communion; normally about 30 to 45 minutes into Mass?

diabetics are not supposed to be fasting at all…
 
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7 minutes after joining you’re this comfortable evaluating threads? 🤔
 
I tend to fast the one hour. I usually don’t receive except right after confession, though, so it’s not quite “relevant” most of the time.
 
no one has answered “my question”

“one hour” before the start of mass or “one hour” before communion ??
 
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“one hour” before the start of mass or “one hour” before communion ??
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It means “one hour before communion”. People sometimes receive Communion outside of Mass, so one hour means one hour before you receive. Supporting source here:

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How Has Canon Law Changed on Fasting Before Communion?

Q: What, if anything, does canon law say about fasting before receiving Holy Communion? It used to be that you had to fast since midnight of the night before; then it was three hours before, then o…
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I generally try to fast for one hour before Mass starts just because it’s easier than trying to guesstimate what time Communion will be distributed to me. But if Mass is at 9 and I am eating something at 8:05 or 8:10, I can be pretty confident I will still be able to receive. If I mess up and eat later I check my watch to see if it’s been an hour before I get in Communion line.
 
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Augustinian said:
That isn’t good at all. What do you do for medical tests or surgeries that require overnight food/water fasting?
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If the answer is anything like me, it’s go home, drink broth and orange juice and take lots of meds for how awful I feel and then be sick for the next day or two. I try to avoid those tests if at all possible because of how sick they make me.
 
I’ve said this before on fasting threads, but it is not unusual for people to get faint if they skip breakfast and go straight to Mass. I used to attend mandatory 8 am school kid Masses and a lot of otherwise healthy kids would skip breakfast, walk to school, participate in the Mass in a hot church, and get woozy before it was over and have to be taken out by the sister to recover. There are reasons why you see so many ads encouraging people to eat breakfast. Depending on your metabolism and other factors, such as what you ate for dinner the previous night, what time you ate it and whether you have to walk to the church, lightheadedness happens in otherwise normal people.
 
I know you put up a source but isn’t an hour before mass safer?
 
But then, wouldn’t that be an opportunity; I know I’m romanticizing things but couldn’t this be an opportunity for the kind nuns to create a huge brunch and sweets (like ice cream) to give out after daily mass?
 
It’s interesting to read what people believe the law if God is.
 
It’s safer and easier, but if you go to a lot of Masses then sooner or later you are going to get in a time crunch and be cutting a few corners. Also, those of us who attend Mass regularly know that the priest is going to take, at an absolute minimum, about 15 minutes to get through the Mass up to the point of distributing Holy Communion. The only time this could backfire on you is if you show up and discover Mass is cancelled and has been replaced by a Communion service only, which could be a shorter time to Communion.
 
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