Should I Recieve Communion if I Don't Believe?

  • Thread starter Thread starter JPatton
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
Since you don’t believe or agree with their doctrine, you should abstain.
Make a Spiritual Communion even if the Blessed Sacrament is not present.
My Jesus,
I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally,
come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You.
Amen.

You could tell your wife that you have abstained because you have some serious issues that are between God and yourself and that until you have them resolved, you do not feel you can participate in her communion. Cite Scripture that says if you take the Body and Blood unworthily or without discerning, you bring damnation upon yourself. Make sure she knows that you do not love her any less and appeal to her love for you in understanding that you are undergoing something momentous and that even if you do become a Catholic, it will not change your love for her.

It may be that your wife will never understand what you are going through, but it is God who calls you. Help her to understand that you cannot ignore God’s call. Do this gently and with compassion and invite her to come along with you on your journey. This way, she will know that her relationship with you is not at risk, that you still love her and want to be with her for the rest of your life.

Do contact your local parish and ask about joining RCIA. Speak with the priest about the difficulties you are having with your family.
 
Since you’re not a Catholic yet, you could continue to recieve communion at a Protestant Church. However, it will be simply bread and wine, and not the Body and Blood of Christ. Simply believing in the Real Presence does not make bread the Body of Christ. A person must be validly ordained a priest in order to consecrate the Eucharist.
 
Bubble said:
You said you haven’t talked to a priest yet, but you really need to. Since there an issue with your family, do it in private. No one else has to know for now.
Click to expand...
I find that poor advice, most priests aren’t aproachable like that. Every priest I’ve ever approached with a sincere question or worry gave me a canned answer so I would leave him alone. There’s a lot of good people on this site and they can give him better insight than most priests IMO.
 
O.S.Luke said:
Deceptive to whom? God? I suspect God knows our true heart.
Click to expand...
Oneself. It is wrong and hypocritical to partake of a “communion” with which you are not fully in communion, besides being merely symbolic.
 
This person should NOT take Communion at their non-Denominational Church.

From a non-denominational point of view, if you believe it is in error, then you will rain judgment on yourself if you partake. Just because they believe it’s a “symbol” doesn’t make it unimportant in God’s eyes or the eyes of those who do it. No one should ever be taking communion because of what family will think.
However, it will be simply bread and wine, and not the Body and Blood of Christ.
Click to expand...
if you believe the above is what you are taking, and eat it anyhow, then :
1 Corinthians11:22 Do you not have houses in which you can eat and drink? Or do you show contempt for the church of God and make those who have nothing feel ashamed? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this matter I do not praise you.
Click to expand...
 
jmcrae said:
Oneself. It is wrong and hypocritical to partake of a “communion” with which you are not fully in communion, besides being merely symbolic.
Click to expand...
I am sure that some churches and traditions believe it’s just rite of communion (using your tongue-and-cheek use of quotes) - but if it is a Eucharist, there is no claim that those who come to the table are signifying their allegiance to a communion or church - they are, as baptized Christians, partaking of Christ’s body and blood as commanded to by Christ.

O+
 
O.S.Luke said:
Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
Click to expand...
Can you point to an actual document? Your intention doesn’t seem clear - you seem to be, wadking back through the posts - taking issue with a catholic poster who is adamnant that Protestant communion remains mere bread - something I agree with, but would frame in a less inflamatory fashion.

You respond that goes against Catholic teaching.

It is not clear which you are intending here.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top