Well, most of us traveling folks attend churches all over an never have a problem. We don't use secret hand signals or anything else, really!
Your quote there is about non-catholic giving to a catholic. "It then addresses the question of Catholics receiving the sacraments from non-Catholics." Why would I go to some random church for communion when luckily the Big Catholic Conspiracy (tongue firmly in cheek) has ensured churches everywhere I go? Apples to oranges. Your mom was a catholic receiving from a catholic priest. That rule has no bearing. -------------------------------------------------------- Eric J. Hoffman Managing Partner 1940 Greeley Street South Suite 102 StillwaterMN55082 mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.ejhassociates.com tel: 651.717.4105 fax: 651.717.4101 mob: 651.245.2717 Adobe Solutions Partner Microsoft Certified Partner -------------------------------------------------------- This message contains confidential information and is intended only for [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are not [email protected] you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Eric J. Hoffman therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. -------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:29 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Is Pope Benedict really this arrogant? > well, no, they don't ask for your credentials before you take > communion. Or at least they didn't use to. I'll respond to both your post and Eric's with the story of my own mother who is a devout Catholic. When she came to visit me the first time and went to Mass at our local church she was refused because the priest did not recognize her. It wasn't until afterwards that she met with him that she was allowed to take communion. More to the point: http://www.ourcatholicfaith.org/sacraments/receivingcommunion.html And I quote: In keeping with the sacramental meaning of the Eucharist this canon reserves the sacraments to Catholics, that is, those who are in communion with the Church. It then addresses the question of Catholics receiving the sacraments from non-Catholics. It sets the following strict conditions: a. necessity or genuine spiritual advantage b. when the danger of error or indifferentism is avoided c. it is physically or morally impossible to approach a Catholic minister d. a church which has valid sacraments This last condition is the key one, since it eliminates ALL the Reformation churches (Anglican, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist etc.), none of whom have valid sacred orders, and therefore, a valid Eucharist. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:238142 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
