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Mass with/without the Eucharist..

  • 01-04-2021 8:38pm
    #1
    sporina
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    Is Mass still Mass without receiving the Eucharist?


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
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    Not quite sure what you mean here, but I will take a stab...

    Are you wondering if there is any point in going to Mass if you do not receive the Eucharist? The answer to this is yes, there very much is. You are not obliged to receive the Eucharist when attending Mass, and often you may be better off not if you have not had the chance to go to confession.


  • #3
    Thinkingaboutit
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    sporina wrote: »
    Is Mass still Mass without receiving the Eucharist?

    Yes, certainly. Mass is the unbloody sacrifice of Calvary. Great graces are still be be gained if someone just hears Mass and does not receive. Traditionally, there was a number put on it of 77. Few relate to receiving Communion.

    There has been to great an anthropogenic, even material understanding of Mass, that it be a community meal re-enacting the Last Supper, that you need to receive, and the first GIRM, in the early days of the Novus Ordo Missae, came close to making that error. There can be spiritual Communion, which has become quite common. Moreover, it was traditional that there be just Communion of the Priest with only widespread reception at Easter. Medieval man oft considered a glance at the elevated host, saying inwardly, 'Domus meus et Deus Meus' as doubting Thomas did, sufficient. It was so notable a custom in Ireland that Paul VI allowed that those words be said at the elevation of the host, 'my Lord and my God.' It was also common for people, often organised as sodalities or confraternities to receive Communion at a time other than Mass with hosts consecrated at a prior Mass.


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