Sorry if over-simplistic or dumb question here

[Hirgy03]

Is it actually a sin to take communion having not gone to confession prior? I always thought that you were not fully benefitting from any grace received through communion, but now I’m hearing that it is actually a sin to receive communion with sin.

If this is true, I’d make a brave bet that the vast majority of Catholics out there are sinning when going to Church…I know that I have definitely done so.

Clarification please??? Thanks in advance (little argument here at work over this)

 

[Christianus_Dei]

It’s a sin to receive communion in mortal sin.

 

[Zekariya]

Catechism of the Catholic Church

1857 For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must together be met: "Mortal sin is sin whose object is grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent."

1385 To respond to this invitation we must prepare ourselves for so great and so holy a moment. St. Paul urges us to examine our conscience: “Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.” Anyone conscious of a grave sin [aka mortal sin] must receive the sacrament of Reconciliation before coming to communion.