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To: PugetSoundSoldier
Talk to your local RCIA director or parish priest - those who have not been confirmed and are not a member of a local parish are not allowed to take communion. If you identify yourself as not being a confirmed parishoner, you will not be willingly given communion, according to the doctrine and teaching of the Catholic church.

I'm saving up comments for a general post later in the thread, but this is absolutely not correct. First Eucharist, or Communion and Confirmation are two different sacraments and at this time in history Eucharist comes before Confirmation by a number of years. What parish you belong to doesn't matter. It's being a member IN FULL COMMUNION, meaning one has presented oneself in the Sacrament of Penance for absolution first and is free of serious sin that matters. Receiving Eucharist in a state of mortal sin is itself a grave sin. Who is in this state, we don't know, but God Almighty does. Therefore, people are not called out on it.

Anybody who is Catholic or claims to know Catholicism should be able to articulate that.

260 posted on 12/27/2008 8:18:15 PM PST by Desdemona (Tolerance of grave evil is NOT a Christian virtue (I choose virtue. Values change too often).)
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To: Desdemona

Well, prior to Pope Pius X in 1908 (I think?) you had to be confirmed prior to first communion. He’s the one who changed it. Why? Was it in error the first 1900 years of the Church?

I know you have to have gone to confession prior to communion - that’s drilled into you as a Catholic from the time you can walk. But the fundamental order of the catechism has changed, such that now you can have first communion when you feel it is appropriate, and 100 years ago it was different.


269 posted on 12/27/2008 8:31:47 PM PST by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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