Was This Sacrilege?

[Matthew_Holford]

Were you in a state of mortal sin when you received communion on that occasion? If your answer is yes then it was a sacrilege and you committed a mortal sin.

Actually, I was referring to the following two statements:

While both of you are correct in your statements that parents can’t bind one to sin, while full consent and knowledge are required to sin, neither of you can authoritatively tell the OP whether or not it was mortal sin.

We can only state the following:

1. His mother asked him to take communion in a state of mortal sin
2. This is sacrilage, a gravely disordered act
3. This MAY have been, depending on the person’s knowledge and freedom to give full consent, a mortal sin, but only the OP can know that.

When we start saying whether or not something was specifically a sin (rather than stating that it was gravely disordered and that it MAY have been a sin) then we are in the wrong as regards church teaching… namely that a person’s well formed conscience is the sole method of determining (for that person) whether or not they are in a state of grace.

Please read all my whole post. I used an important word, viz. “if”. I did not say that the OP committed a sin. I said that if the OP was in a state of mortal sin when receiving the Eucharist that too is a mortal sin. I know, before anybody points it out, those were not my exact words but that’s what they said. It is for the OP to know that not anyone else, i.e. was the OP in a state of mortal sin at the time of receiving communion?