Questions on blessings and spiritual communion

[jesusmademe]

Urbi et Orbi is a blessing that Catholics in state of grace can recieve. Can other people also recieve a blessing from it? I cannot imagine that a blessing can only be for a Catholic in the state of grace. As a non-Catholic I will probably recieve it in a different way.
What does the Church teach on this subject?

The local diocese says on its website that instead of attending Mass (nowadays we have no public Mass) so Catholics should receive spiritual communion. The requierment is that the person is in a state of grace. So spiritual communion is a no-no for non-Catholics?
What does the Church teach about this?

 

[Cor_ad_Cor]

…so Catholics should receive spiritual communion. The requierment is that the person is in a state of grace.

No; there’s no requirement to be in a state of grace to pray a spiritual communion. In fact, the usual case of people praying the spiritual communion might be that they aren’t in a state of grace to receive actual communion.

 

[Dovekin]

Urbi et Orbi means to the city and to the world. The phrasing implies that it iis for the people of the city who are present, and for the people in the world who are not present. Here and everywhere.

The Catholic and non-Catholic distinction is very much like the here and everywhere distinction. The intent of the blessing is to go beyond the borders of the city. The reality is that many cannot receive the blessing because they are alienated from God, whether they are Catholic or not. I am sure the Pope means for you to receive the blessing to the fullest extent you are capable, which for Catholics is in a state of grace.

If you are part of the world, the Pope is praying for you to be blessed.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Anybody who sincerely wants a blessing can receive a blessing. The Pope is a priest. Priests bless non-Catholics all the time, for example at churches where non-Catholics might be sitting in the congregation at Mass and get blessed at the end along with everybody else, or they might even be invited to come up with arms crossed at Communion time and receive a blessing from the priest.

As for spiritual communion, it is typically done when a person cannot for some reason receive an actual Communion. This could certainly include non-Catholics who embrace the principles stated in the typical Act of Spiritual Communion, in which one states their love for Jesus and their belief that He is truly present in the Eucharist. If you’re a non-Catholic and you’re regarding Holy Communion as just being a symbolic sharing of bread, and don’t believe in the Real Presence, then the spiritual communion is not going to have any meaning for you and you probably wouldn’t be trying to make an act of spiritual communion in the first place. But if you’re a non-Catholic and you do believe in the Real Presence, then spiritual communion will work just fine for you.

The amount of merit or grace God pours out on somebody seeking a blessing or a spiritual communion might vary depending on the state of the person’s soul, but it’s safe to say that they will benefit in some way from seeking the blessing or making a true Spiritual COmmunion, even if the benefit is just that they stay as close to God as they can given their circumstance.

 

[jesusmademe]

No; there’s no requirement to be in a state of grace to pray a spiritual communion. In fact, the usual case of people praying the spiritual communion might be that they aren’t in a state of grace to receive actual communion.

The diocese of Stockholm wrote this on their website "De troende uppmuntras till andlig kommunion, vilket också förutsätter att man är i nådens tillstånd.
I used google translates for the English:
“Believers are encouraged to spiritual communion, which also assumes that you are in the state of grace.”

This confused me as I have never heard anyone say anything like this.