What is required to receive Holy Communion worthily?

Answer 1

Judging yourself correctly. Recognizing that you you are a sinner and excepting the fact that Christ did all that needed to be done to save you from your own sin.

you need to of had your First Holy Communion, and to of passed the classes

AnswerIt depends on your sect of Christianity. Being baptized is the most important trait.

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Catholic AnswerFirst Holy Communion is given to a child when they have reached the age of reason and after they have made their first Confession. To receive It worthily, one must recognize that It is the Body of Christ, and not ordinary bread, and be in a state of grace (you must have been to confession, and been fasting for one hour).

from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980

Holy Communion. The Eucharist is the sacrament that preserves the soul's union with God and fosters that union by making a person more holy especially in the practice of the supernatural virtue of charity. As a sacrament of the living, to obatin the graces intended, a person must be in a state of God's friendship when receiving, otherwise the reception becomes a sacrilege (I Corinthians 11:27-29).

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First Communion. The precept of the Church that requires children to receive Holy Communion, along with the sacrament of penance, on reaching the age of reason. First issued by the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), the practice was all but discontinued for centuries, due to the inroads of Jansenism. Pope St. Pius X restored the practice and restated the precept, while he also explained how necessarily related are the two sacraments of penance and the Eucharist. "The age of discretion," he said, "both for confession and for Holy Communion is the time when a child begins to reason." This means that "a full and perfect knowledge of Christian doctrine is not necessary either for first confession or first Communion." Moreover, "the obligation of the precept of confession and Communion which binds the child particularly affects those who have charge of him, namely, parents, confessor, teachers, and the pastor" (Quam Singulari, August 8, 1910)

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Believe in God and had baptism

Believe that Jesus died for your sins. Attain 2 years of knowledge prior to confirmation. I'm Lutheran, so one year of classes about the reformation and different meanings in our prayers and the meanings to the commandments. This continues into the second year, but you are also doing special projects for the church. Protestants are not allowed to take communion until these classes are complete which is usually the 8th grade. I don't know what Catholics do, just know it's much earlier they take their first communion and are very young when they start attending catechism.

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You must be a Catholic with no unconfessed serious sins. You should fast from food at least one hour before receiving.