Summa Theologiae by St Thomas Aquinas
TP: Treatise On The Sacraments
Q80 Of The Use Or Receiving Of This Sacrament In General
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We have now to consider the use or receiving of this sacrament, first of all in general; secondly, how Christ used this sacrament.

Under the first heading there are twelve points of inquiry:

A1 Whether there are two ways of eating this sacrament, namely, sacramentally and spiritually?

A2 Whether it belongs to man alone to eat this sacrament spiritually?

A3 Whether it belongs to the just man only to eat it sacramentally?

A4 Whether the sinner sins in eating it sacramentally?

A5 Of the degree of this sin;

A6 Whether this sacrament should be refused to the sinner that approaches it?

A7 Whether nocturnal pollution prevents man from receiving this sacrament?

A8 Whether it is to be received only when one is fasting?

A9 Whether it is to be given to them who lack the use of reason?

A10 Whether it is to be received daily?

A11 Whether it is lawful to refrain from it altogether?

A12 Whether it is lawful to receive the body without the blood?

 
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