I would like to know, from a catholic, what gives them the right to refuse someone communion? I recently attended a catholic mass. I am a christian and have recieved communion many times. When I got to the front the priest asked if I was catholic I said no. He then refused to give me communion. Do you think that was right or fair?
2007-02-20 11:04:57 · 14 answers · asked by dnjday 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, they shouldn't do this. They do though, I use to be Catholic, I am non denominational Christian now. The only time you should not take communion is when you have not repented to God yourself prior to it. That is between you and God, it doesn't take another to verify it. God knows your heart and whether or not you did.
2007-02-20 11:14:05 · answer #1 · answered by Gardener for God(dmd) 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you were in Communion with us Catholics you would be a Catholic. When one takes Holy Communion they are saying that they agree with the Catholic Church and her magisterium (the Pope all the way down the line) Other denominations have a "different" view of Holy Communion and they deny the real presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. Oh they usually believe that he is there in their communion symbolically but not really or he is there plus the bread and the wine but not totally the way a Catholic does (or is supposed to)When one takes communion you are stating you are one with the congregation and we know that is not true.
2007-02-20 11:27:26 · answer #2 · answered by Midge 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I'm guessing that you mean that your Grandmother was Catholic. First of all, the Church has consistently taught that there is one baptism. However, baptism alone does not fully prepare one for Holy Communion. Officially, you are asked to refrain from receiving Communion, because you do not have the understanding (Scripturally or otherwise), nor the belief that the Eucharist is truly the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ. But nobody is standing there waiting for the "secret password" or any other such thing for you to "prove" that you are a legitimate believer. Are you saved? I believe that you are baptised and that Jesus is working in your life. You clearly profess to being a Christian, even though you deny the fullness of revelation that Jesus gave to the Apostles.
2016-05-24 00:04:08 · answer #3 · answered by Vernieke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You were denied communion because you have to be properly disposed to receive the body and blood of the Lord. That means you have to go to confession first and receive teaching on the Holy Eucharist among other things.
"It is in keeping with the very meaning of the Eucharist that the faithful, if they have the required dispositions,221 receive communion when they participate in the Mass.222 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."223"
Peace and every blessing!
2007-02-20 12:40:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Catholics believe the Eucharist is the blood and body of Christ. Most other Christians don't, so they don't want anyone partaking in Communion if they don't understand what it means to Catholics. Priests (or Bishops, I don't remember which) also bless the Eucharist, so Catholics aren't supposed to take Communion anywhere else since it hasn't been blessed.
2007-02-20 11:14:46 · answer #5 · answered by teeney1116 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
At the Last Supper, Jesus said, “Take this bread. It is my body.” The he said, “Take this and drink. This is my blood. Do this in memory of me.”
Catholics believe this was the First Eucharist, that through some miracle the bread and wine actually became the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
Catholics reenact the Last Supper during every Mass, where the priest, acting in place of Christ, changes the bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
This is a great sacrament of thanksgiving and unity of Catholics.
Anyone who does not believe in the actual presence of Christ and is not united with the Catholic faith is asked, out of respect, not to receive the Eucharist.
Catholics, out of respect for other Christian faiths, do not receive Communion in non-Catholic churches.
We pray that one day Christian unity will succeed and we will all be called to the same table.
With love in Christ.
2007-02-20 16:26:01 · answer #6 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
1. Catholic is about "Authority" with the "Pope" as Supreme Pontiff. Jesus gave Peter the "keys", and this evolved into "Pope". The Pope appoints the Bishops. The Bishops appoint the Priests. Sharing with these elect the inheritance of Jesus (seven sacrements: forgivness, transubstantiation, anointing the sick, baptisms, marriage, ect)
2. Transubstantiation: We believe that the Priest ( or Bishop
3. Eating the Eucharist and drinking the wine is a holy moment where we're united with Chirst on the cross with those who died before us, are here and now, and those to come in the future. We ask that those taking the Eucharist are 'mortal' sin free. You'll also hear about Polititians who are requested to stop taking the Eucharist because they voted for abortion ... same reasoning.
2007-02-20 11:29:45 · answer #7 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Are you in COMMUNION with the Catholic Church? You have to be in COMMUNION to receive COMMUNION. Anyway, it is for your own protection, since the vast majority of non-Catholics do not believe It is truly the Lord's Body:
"Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died." - 1 Corinthians 11:27-30
2007-02-20 11:23:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
It was right. Orthodox Christians do it,too. Catholics based it on their belief that is actually Christ's body and unless you believe the same you shouldn't take it because it will be an insult. They also based it on scripture.
1 Corinthians 11:27
"Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord."
John 6:53-58, 66-67
"So Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me. This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever.' After this many of his disciples drew back and no longer went about with him. Jesus said to the twelve, 'Will you also go away?'"
The Catholic Church believes that taking the Eucharist and not really believe in it. Is an insult not only to the church but to the body of Christ since they hold to scripture that Jesus said that bread and wine is really his body and blood. I know this is confusing but we are not the ony denomination that does this. I'm Catholic and I had questions about it too but it was explained to me using scripture.
2007-02-20 11:28:27 · answer #9 · answered by cynical 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes, he was right because to my knowledge only Catholics (please correct me if I'm wrong) believe in the theology of Transubstantiation, the belief that communion bread after consecration becomes the actual body of Christ. Catholics affirm this belief when they take First Communion.
If your beliefs do not coincide then you should take communion as pertaining to your own Christian beliefs.
2007-02-20 11:17:55 · answer #10 · answered by Imogen Sue 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋