I’m always surprised on what gets hits on my web too.

Some are understandably ones that people would want to look up — like “movies with Catholic appeal” that sort of thing. But there was a humorous one I did about “sex ed in the 1970s” and one called “Fashion felonies” that get hit a lot too. Ditto one about the “Our lady of angels” fire that happened in chicago 50 years ago this fall where a lot of school kids were burned and died in a fire (along with some nuns) — oh, and my post last year on “go to hell pants” once got hit by someone on the staff of the “Sargeant at arms” in the US Senate!

Those people in Washington sure have a lot of time on their hands. Oh, and someone at the Vatican looked at my website (or had the “tab” up and left the computer on) for over twenty hours or so. Maybe Papa Ratzinger liked the post I did re: his similarity in hats to a US kid’s 1st cowboy hat. Dunno. Maybe someone in the vatican has the pics in their office cubicle! “Hey, hide that, Papa approaches!”

But I think you’d be interested to know the church has loosened up on the laity in this regard a bit…as long as it’s not done out of superstition.

For instance, if on a Saturday I attend a friend’s wedding Mass and receive Communion there….and then later in the day if I go to the Saturday evening Mass to fulfill the Sunday evening Mass, no worries.

“Can you tell me how often I may receive holy Communion on the same day?”

The new Code of Canon Law, published in 1983, states in Canon 917, “One who has received the blessed Eucharist may receive it again on the same day only within a eucharistic celebration in which that person participates, without prejudice to the provision of Canon 921, #2.”

That means, whenever, wherever, however a person has received holy Communion, he or she may receive a second time on the same day if the person is participating in the celebration of Mass.

So, if the person has already received Communion in or outside of Mass, he or she may receive a second time if it is during a Mass in which he or she is participating. A person may not just walk in at Communion time and receive a second time. Canon 921, #2, however, allows anyone in danger of death, from any cause (a heart attack, missile attack, natural disaster, etc.) to receive Communion as viaticum a second time during the same day whether in or outside of Mass. In fact, the Code strongly suggests that the person receive again in such circumstances.

Cases where these canons might most frequently apply are those in which a person has attended Mass on Saturday morning and then attends a Mass on Saturday evening to satisfy the Sunday obligation. The person may receive at both Masses. The same applies for someone who attends a daily Mass in the parish and then attends a wedding or funeral Mass in the evening. Again, the person may receive in both instances.

As for the Eucharist. I’ve never really understood why it’s ok for the priest to partake in many communion services (and to eat/drink up all the unused consecrated elements) but it’s considered wrong for a catholic to attend mass more than once a day and receive communion at each service. … but Holly’s comment made me laugh :)

Boris Becker, really?