hey gris84. u gotta go to mass every week. and just pop into confession tell the priest you sins, then you can go up and receive our lord. no problem.
It seems like you’re having some cognitive dissonance here. In both posts you seem to be conscious of a sin–the sin of living with your boyfriend outside of marriage, and also that you haven’t gone to confession in two years. But you also say that you “haven’t done anything wrong in those 2 years”.
Based on this post alone, you need to go to confession and until you do so, you can not receive communion.
Gris84, what other people do has nothing to do with *YOUR *relationship with God. Just because they sin does NOT give you the right to sin.
Same thing here. Don’t pay attention to what other people are doing. Pay attention to what YOU are doing, or in this case NOT DOING -like not going to Mass every Sunday, which is considered a grave sin. I highly reccommend that you have a talk with a Priest. He will help you understand these things.
no one can answer this question for you, personally, except your priest in confession during which you have been entirely honest about your past and present situation. You already know the teaching or you would not ask. And the replies here will be accurate as to that teaching. If you want advice from old married people who have been through this: The health of your future marriage is in jeopardy if you continue this irregular manner of living when your fiance returns home, so resolve to use this separation to learn how to love while apart.
Because she hasn’t been attending Mass every Sunday -that’s a grave sin. Because she hasn’t gone to confession in 2 years -that’s a grave sin. Because when she DOES go to Mass once a month, she receives Communion without having gone to Confession for the above sins, -that’s another grave sin. Now the only possible way that she hasn’t committed grave sin is ***‘IF’ ***she wasn’t in full knowledge that these were ‘grave’ sins. -See Catechism #1857.
I disagree with your statement but also must ask, what is an Anglo Catholic?
The OP seems to recognize that her living arrangement is sinful.
Cat, I would most enjoy hearing you elaborate on why you disagree…
I’ve never used the name Cat. It seems to be a misnomer to me.
I feel taking this tact, would be for us, the readers, to jump to conclusions. There is a good chance that the OP is worried about the perception of her Church refuting her wishes to return to the sacrament, rather than her belief that she is living in sin. Like I said originally, there may be extenuating circumstances for her current living arrangements. It is not so simple to suggest that she starts living on her own. What if she cannot afford it? What if her family live in another state? What if she can’t find somewhere else to rent? The list goes on. I think it is better to encourage her return to regular Mass rather than fuel her guilt. She will no doubt confer with her priest about this.