First Holy Communion for Catholics

PR Log (Press Release) – Jan 12, 2008 – The Church sets out specific guidelines regarding how a person should prepare to receive the Lord’s body and blood in Communion, http://www.announcements-shoppe.com/About_Catholics_Communion  To receive Communion worthily, you must be in a state of grace, have made a good confession since your last mortal sin, believe in transubstantiation, observe the Eucharistic fast and not be under an ecclesiastical censure such as excommunication.

A mortal sin is any sin whose matter is grave and which has been committed willfully and with knowledge of its seriousness. Out of habit and out of fear of what those around them will think if they do not receive Communion, some Catholics, in a state of mortal sin, choose to go forward and offend God rather than stay in the pew while others receive the Eucharist. You must have been to confession since your last mortal sin. The requirement for sacramental confession can be dispensed if four conditions are fulfilled:
 *  there must be a grave reason to receive Communion (for example, danger of death),
 *  it must be physically or morally impossible to go to confession first,
 *  the person must already be in a state of grace through perfect contrition and
 *  he must resolve to go to confession as soon as possible.

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