I know that there is a limit of 2 times a day when receiving the Eucharist, but WHY? We are receiving Jesus every time we get the Eucharist, so why would you limit it to just twice? I cant think of any downfalls to receiving, just positives. We receive grace, venial sins are forgiven, Christ strengthens us,… And for me personally, I am filled with the greatest joy every time I receive our Lord. I love God and I love the Eucharist, so why am I not allowed to recieve Him as many times as I want?
Eastern Catholics do not have the limit in their code (CCEO) but also frequent Divine Liturgies in one day are not common. Receiving the Holy Eucharist once a day is sufficient for each day.
Saint Basil of Cappadocia wrote in Letter 93, 378 A.D., about receiving as often as possible, which then could be daily:
It is good and beneficial to communicate every day, and to partake of the holy Body and Blood of Christ. For He distinctly says, “He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life.” And who doubts that to share frequently in life, is the same thing as to have manifold life. I, indeed, communicate four times a week, on the Lord’s day, on Wednesday, on Friday, and on the Sabbath, and on the other days if there is a commemoration of any Saint. It is needless to point out that for anyone in times of persecution to be compelled to take the communion in his own hand without the presence of a priest or minister is not a serious offence, as long custom sanctions this practice from the facts themselves. All the solitaries in the desert, where there is no priest, take the communion themselves, keeping communion at home. And at Alexandria and in Egypt, each one of the laity, for the most part, keeps the communion, at his own house, and participates in it when he likes. For when once the priest has completed the offering, and given it, the recipient, participating in it each time as entire, is bound to believe that he properly takes and receives it from the giver. And even in the church, when the priest gives the portion, the recipient takes it with complete power over it, and so lifts it to his lips with his own hand. It has the same validity whether one portion or several portions are received from the priest at the same time.
newadvent.org/fathers/3202093.htm
That is in agreement with the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
1388 It is in keeping with the very meaning of the Eucharist that the faithful, if they have the required dispositions, receive communion each time they participate in the Mass. [Cf. CIC, can. 917; AAS 76 (1984) 746-747] As the Second Vatican Council says: “That more perfect form of participation in the Mass whereby the faithful, after the priest’s communion, receive the Lord’s Body from the same sacrifice, is warmly recommended.” [Sacrosanctum Concilium 55]
Sacrosanctum Concilium:
vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19631204_sacrosanctum-concilium_en.html
Apparently a Latin Catholic priest may receive more than twice as Canon 919 §2 mentions celebration of the Eucharist three times in a day:
Can. 919
§1 Whoever is to receive the blessed Eucharist is to abstain for at least one hour before holy communion from all food and drink, with the sole exception of water and medicine.
§2 A priest who, on the same day, celebrates the blessed Eucharist twice or three times may consume something before the second or third celebration, even though there is not an hour’s interval.
§3 The elderly and those who are suffering from some illness, as well as those who care for them, may receive the blessed Eucharist even if within the preceding hour they have consumed something.
