Catholic Church question

Communion is one the seven sacraments the Catholics believe into. But firs you have to take the first one, Sacrament of Baptism where you have to Baptized first the Catholic way before you can take the Sacrament of Communion. For some this just maybe an act.. but for the Catholics it has significance and meanings.

I think you can find the answers on internet, it`s a big difference between Eucharist and Communion as it is understood on the Catholic church and the same things practiced on Protestant churches.I think to be able to take communion you have to be in communion with the church although i see some are saying that Eastern Orthodox Christians are allowed to take communion on the Catholic church. http://www.uscatholic.org/glad-you-asked/2008/11/can-a-non-catholic-receive-communion

The pope has stated that only catholics are real Christians and that even the Orthodox Church is not really Christian. all the best urban

I am not Catholic either so I dont know how much help I will be (sorry if I'm no help) I dont think it should matter whether you are Catholic or not The Methodist church that my kids go to do communion and everyone that wants to take communion are welcome to do so. I have a question for you: I thought in order to marry a Catholic you had tobecome Catholic yourself, is this not true anymore?

Am I correct when I say that The Lord's Supper at other churches is this same as communion at catholic churches? At a baptist church my niece wasn't allowed because she wasn't saved and baptized which meant she hadn't accepted Jesus as her savior. So she couldn't drink of his blood and eat of his body.

Communion is one of the sacraments of the Catholic church. Such a sacrament has some requirements that you need to meet in order for you to be entitled to receive it. Your wife's statement of "You have to be Catholic" is one of them. But like what I said, that is just ONE of them. Try to get in touch with a Catholic priest in the church where you and your family go to. (Or to a local Catholic monastery if you feel shy about talking to the local priest.) Schedule an appointment with them. Talk about your discomforts. If you are not happy with one of your consultations, arrange it with another priest. One priest may not be comfortable talking to a non-believer. Another priest may be so happy talking to one. They're still humans. They also have their own biases in life. But what matters most is you approach them with humility, with a hungry soul waiting to be quenched from what's been bothering you about Catholic doctrines. I'll pray for you, my friend.

Why would any non-catholic wanna take communion? Why get unnecessarily up close and intimate with a Catholic Priest? Once in the net, its hard to escape. If you really wanna take the biscuit with your family, why not join? My advise, either sh!t or get off the pot!

so in what Church do you actually belong dear? I am not a Catholic but a Baptist and to us Baptist communion which we call "Lord's Supper" is exclusive only to believers not members. Non-believers can't partake even if they attended our worship service but those who are non-members but believers could. By believers it mean more than just knowledge and admission that there is God but rather there must be genuine personal relationship with Christ. Now, it is the person who could judge his own self on this matter. Not anyone else. Anyone should partake the Lord Supper worthily otherwise he would be accountable to God. 1 Corinthians 11:27–32 "Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, ewe are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world." Hence Lord's Supper is "open" to all believers, but those professing believers should examine their own selves if they really have personal relationship with Jesus and their true motive for partaking.

There are some certain procedures you have to pass through before receiving communion in the catholic church such as: attending catechism classes and knowing the reason why you want to receive it. Not all catholic are qualified to receive communion even if they've gone through the processes. They need to be in what we call a state of grace and for you to be in a state of grace you must have examined yourself to see if you're worthy of receiving the body and blood of Jesus Christ. You must have also gone for confession before receiving it.

I really don't know the reason other than you are not catholic. I visited a catholic church with my friend and I was allowed to be blessed but I could not take the sacrament. I am a protestant and saved, but that wasn't good enough. I guess I wasn't a real Christian unless I was Catholic... although protestants are off shoots of the Catholic church and considered universal catholic with a small c.

I am a Catholic, I don't practice that much but have been for ever. Communion is only for catholics because you have to do the Holy Communion before you receive it in general, you takes classes and prepare yourself for it before. Also Catholics believe that you have to be free of mortal sins before receiving the communion, since is the body of Christ, a person who has a missed a sunday mass, or has any type of mortal sin cannot receive it.

We are catholic .But maybe u can take communion in our church as long as ur conscience is with us.U can hear mass in our church and u can take communion also in our church...Nobody knows u who or what ur religion is as long as u will attend and join our mass here and obey what we are going to........So u can join us.