[NYer]

Saturday evening ping and quiz :-)

[raybbr]

Likewise, receiving Holy Communion as a non-Catholic (again, with an understanding of certain limited exceptions) is a lie. It says, "I am in communion with the Catholic Church despite not being in communion with the Catholic Church." Sincerity isn't enough.

Is he actually trying to claim that anyone outside of the Catholic Church is barred from receiving the Eucharist?

[red irish]

I have had some friends who have attended Mass with me but hadn’t been to church for years ask me the same question. I simply told them we are one body in worship with Christ in what we believe and suppose to live. We say amen when we receive holy communion,yes to what we believe. I have kids not of age who also wanted to receive holy communion. One little boy asked to go to communion and I said he wasn’t old enough yet and said you have to be seven,he then looked me straight in the eye and politely said,well I am seven!! He was four years old at the time. We also fast before Mass so as to receive holy communion and we also practice not receiving unworthy with being in serious sin. There are many different ways one cannot receive holy communion. It it about the sacred,Christ,not just what we think or want. We have plenty of other ways of demanding our own way. We practice humbleness,sacredness,rightenous!! Grace! So maybe that frined is not ready to be Catholic.

[oprahstheantichrist]

"...Evangelical Protestant friends...none of them have ever professed (to me at least) to believing in the Real Presence."

Missouri Synod Lutherans have the same issue, and also embrace the doctrine of transsubstantiation. They (we) adhere to closed communion as well, a continual source of whining from the left-leaners.

[chs68]

"I once told him that there is an easy remedy to that: Become Catholic, and you can receive the Eucharist daily! But he says his objection isn't simply because he is personally being deprived, but because he thinks no one should be deprived simply because they aren't Catholic."

I am not Roman Catholic, but I do believe that the Roman Catholic Church ought to be able to act in accordance with its own dcotrines, principles, and understandings. If that means that someone who is not a Roman Catholic cannot receive Communion in a Roman Catholic church, then I am perfectly comfortable with that.

It seems to me that SG's close friend is an product of a culture that seems to have lost the point that beliefs really do matter. SG's friend seems to think that it is just plain wrong for the Roman Catholic Church to act on its own beliefs.

SG's close friend sounds very much as though he would feel very comfortable with what I understand that Unitarian/Universalists believe -- no one is excluded from anything.

[1000 silverlings]

So as to the first question, being in the Lord’s Prescence and breaking bread with Him, has no value? Your quiz is rigged

[swmobuffalo]

“It says, “I am in communion with the Catholic Church despite not being in communion with the Catholic Church.”

No, it says I am in communion with CHRIST, which is far more important than ANY church.

[bobjam]

Does medicine only work if the patient fully understands what it is and how it works? Do doctors need to provide their patients an education in chemistry and a pharmacy before adminstering drugs? The medicine, administered properly is good for the sick patient. It matters not what the patient understands of the medicine.

The Body and Blood are good and nourishing to the faithful. Does that change if the partaker does not fully understand its significance? Does anyone really fully understand this sacrament?

[narses]

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