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To: BackInBlack
Why would you actually need to go to a church building to receive the body and blood of Christ

There is, of course, no need whatsoever to go to a church building to receive communion. My own parish, when it was first established, had Mass in a community building in our development. The Pope frequently has Mass in large stadiums or out of doors, and this is frequently done in the Church. Holy communion is often received outside of Mass, in Hospitals and nursing homes, and even at the believer's homes, in certain cases, usually of illness.

259 posted on 12/17/2007 7:11:20 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Huckabee asks if Mormons believe Jesus, devil are brothers)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

You’re missing my point — presumably willfully, since it was pretty clear. The point is, no human being or human institution has to sanction my symbolic “ingestion” of Christ.


298 posted on 12/17/2007 9:56:04 PM PST by BackInBlack ("The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.")
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