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The following statement about the frequency of communicating with God by receiving the Body and Blood of Christ is NOT true:
{ 1 } - The Roman Catholic Church holds that it is good to receive Holy Communion more than once a day.
{ 2 } - Pope St. Pius X teaches that the "daily bread" prayed for in the Our Father is Jesus Christ received at Mass under the appearance of bread and wine.
{ 3 } - St. Ignatius' second rule for Thinking with the Church in his Spiritual Exercises suggests more frequent Holy Communion, becoming one with the God-man, than once a year:
{ 4 } - It has become the admirable practice to participate fully in the Mass by receiving Holy Communion, eating the flesh and blood of the God-man each time one goes to Mass.
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The following statement about the frequency of communicating with God by receiving the Body and Blood of Christ is NOT true:
{ 1 } - The Roman Catholic Church holds that it is good to receive Holy Communion more than once a day.
{ 2 } - Pope St. Pius X teaches that the "daily bread" prayed for in the Our Father is Jesus Christ received at Mass under the appearance of bread and wine.
{ 3 } - St. Ignatius' second rule for Thinking with the Church in his Spiritual Exercises suggests more frequent Holy Communion, becoming one with the God-man, than once a year:
{ 4 } - It has become the admirable practice to participate fully in the Mass by receiving Holy Communion, eating the flesh and blood of the God-man each time one goes to Mass.
Not ordinarily, although there are special circumstances in which a second reception is permisible, e.g. participation in a second Mass or reception of Communion when death is imminent.
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The following statement about the frequency of communicating with God by receiving the Body and Blood of Christ is NOT true:
{ 1 } - The Roman Catholic Church holds that it is good to receive Holy Communion more than once a day.
{ 2 } - Pope St. Pius X teaches that the "daily bread" prayed for in the Our Father is Jesus Christ received at Mass under the appearance of bread and wine.
{ 3 } - St. Ignatius' second rule for Thinking with the Church in his Spiritual Exercises suggests more frequent Holy Communion, becoming one with the God-man, than once a year:
{ 4 } - It has become the admirable practice to participate fully in the Mass by receiving Holy Communion, eating the flesh and blood of the God-man each time one goes to Mass.
He said in 1905: "we are bidden in the Lord's Prayer to ask for "our daily bread" by which words, the holy Fathers of the Church all but unanimously teach, must be understood not so much that material bread which is the support of the body as the Eucharistic bread which ought to be our daily food."
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The following statement about the frequency of communicating with God by receiving the Body and Blood of Christ is NOT true:
{ 1 } - The Roman Catholic Church holds that it is good to receive Holy Communion more than once a day.
{ 2 } - Pope St. Pius X teaches that the "daily bread" prayed for in the Our Father is Jesus Christ received at Mass under the appearance of bread and wine.
{ 3 } - St. Ignatius' second rule for Thinking with the Church in his Spiritual Exercises suggests more frequent Holy Communion, becoming one with the God-man, than once a year:
{ 4 } - It has become the admirable practice to participate fully in the Mass by receiving Holy Communion, eating the flesh and blood of the God-man each time one goes to Mass.
His advice is "To praise confession to a Priest, and the reception of the most Holy Sacrament of the Altar once in the year, and much more each month, and much better from week to week, with the conditions required and due.
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The following statement about the frequency of communicating with God by receiving the Body and Blood of Christ is NOT true:
{ 1 } - The Roman Catholic Church holds that it is good to receive Holy Communion more than once a day.
{ 2 } - Pope St. Pius X teaches that the "daily bread" prayed for in the Our Father is Jesus Christ received at Mass under the appearance of bread and wine.
{ 3 } - St. Ignatius' second rule for Thinking with the Church in his Spiritual Exercises suggests more frequent Holy Communion, becoming one with the God-man, than once a year:
{ 4 } - It has become the admirable practice to participate fully in the Mass by receiving Holy Communion, eating the flesh and blood of the God-man each time one goes to Mass.
This practice is admirable if one is in a state of love of God and is not turned away from Him by unrepented deadly sins, for example murder, rape, genital sexual activity outside of loving commitment in marriage which exists between a man and a woman, drunkenness that eliminates ability to reason.
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