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Q: At Communion time, what is the proper way to ask for a blessing if you are unable to receive Communion? \u2013 Jeanne<\/p>\n

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Answered by Fr. Edward McIlmail, LC<\/em><\/p>\n

A: This might come as a surprise, but the Roman Missal mentions nothing about the reception of blessings at communion time. It simply doesn’t foresee this act.<\/p>\n

Everyone in the congregation is covered by the final blessing at the end of Mass, so going up for one at communion time is superfluous.<\/p>\n

Since laypeople are prohibited from giving blessings at Mass, for someone to present herself for a blessing would put an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion in an awkward position.<\/p>\n

A more pressing reason not to seek a blessing is that the distributor of Communion might be tempted to give a blessing with the Host itself<\/em>. That would amount to Benediction<\/a>, which is reserved to priests and deacons at Eucharistic adoration and then only under precise guidelines.<\/p>\n

In short, if someone won\u2019t be receiving Communion, it\u2019s better that the person remain in the pew and make a spiritual communion.<\/p>\n

There are some places and countries, however, in which the local bishops have permitted and even encourage this practice of seeking a blessing.<\/p>\n

This is usually in places where there is a high percentage of interdenominational marriages, and the non-Catholic partner accompanies his or her family to Mass in such a way that all approaching the altar is a sign of family unity.<\/p>\n

In such cases one should usually approach a priest or deacon with whatever gesture is recommended so as to receive a blessing. This often means having the arms crossed over the breast.<\/p>\n

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His contributions to RCSpirituality include responding to\u00a0Ask A Priest\u00a0questions and sharing his insights in our\u00a0Weekly Newsletter.","url":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/author\/emcilmail\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145452"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=145452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}