Summer Guilt?????

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Summer Guilt?????
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Mon, 05-11-2009 - 1:51pm
If you work, do you find that summer's are the worst?

Kat

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 3:58pm
I know you did. But there are only a few other denominations that hold masses, and none of them have open tables either.
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Registered: 03-26-2009
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 3:59pm
My mom is not Catholic and went to mass every single week. She did not go up for communion BUT no one would have known if she did.
Not sure how people are "singled" out at communion. I am waiting for an answer on that one. RC's are the "get in, get out" type and would not have time for anything extra in their weekly mass-lol!!
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 4:00pm

I'm not following...what makes it sound like a business?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-26-2009
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 4:00pm
Sorry but from your post all I see is a business being run and the VBS being an extra target-shrug.
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Registered: 05-13-2009
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 4:00pm

Not according to the Code of Canon Law
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P39.HTM

Of course, any person can misrepresent themselves by not complying with canon law, but the priest can also refuse the give communion if he knows the person is not eligible. See VATICAN: BISHOPS MUST REFUSE COMMUNION TO PRO-ABORTION POLITICIANS http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2009/02/vatican_bishops.php.

It seems like the Catholic Church has many rules around who can and should receive communion. Is is really different in your Church?

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Registered: 03-06-2009
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 4:01pm

It's the 'table' concept that intriques me -- b/c it's very unfamilir but here goes


if you walked into a Catholic mass and you were saavy enough to know what tod o at communion you probably could walk up and take communion. They don't check your catholic id at the door and the priest would have no way of knowing if you were a baptised catholic or not -- you could be

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 4:01pm
I did have a friend who went up to receive the eucharist at a Catholic church, and when they handed her the bread, she didn't say "thanks be to God" or whatever the customary response was in that church, and the priest flat out asked her whether she was Catholic. She said no, and he basically told her to go sit down. She was from an open table tradition and had no clue that she was doing something wrong by trying to receive the eucharist at a Catholic church.
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Registered: 03-26-2009
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 4:03pm
Well maybe Crusader will respond about this too as I have been going to mass for 30 some-what years and never heard of this.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 4:03pm

He doesn't....she goes on to explain that he has chores and that they agree on when to do activites...just trying to save you a few posts.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 05-10-2009
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 4:04pm
What question is that? I might have missed it. If you'd repeat it, I'd be glad to answer.

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