There is no doctrine test at Sunday Mass and no examination of your identity, your marriage, or your history before you receive. If you have never received at all, first Communion for adults is prepared here without embarrassment and without a children’s class.
Any baptized person who wants to receive may receive. Nobody is asked about their gender, their partner, their divorce, their politics, or the last time they were in a church. There is no line of questioning at the rail because there is no line of questioning to begin with.
Staying in your seat is also an ordinary thing to do, and it is not read as a confession of anything. Sunday Mass is offered within Bloom’s own Independent Catholic tradition; the Church of Bloom is not in communion with Rome and claims no Roman faculties or recognition of its orders.
On admission to Communion
No one is refused Communion in this church on the grounds of gender identity, gender history, sexual orientation, marital configuration, or the opinion of a former parish. The rail is not a checkpoint and will not be operated as one.
Some people cannot receive sacramentally, and the reasons are ordinary: you are watching from home, you are ill, you are housebound, you are unsafe leaving the house today, you are three states away from any altar that would have you. The Church has an old and settled answer for this, and it is not a consolation prize.
An Act of Spiritual Communion is a prayer of desire — you tell God you want to receive, and you ask him to come to you as if you had. Roman bishops recommended exactly this practice to their own parishes during the years their people watched from home, and pastors of many traditions did the same. It is universal to the online form of worship and it is not particular to Bloom.
The text most often used is St. Alphonsus Liguori’s, printed in most prayer books and easy to find; the Chancery will point you to a copy rather than reconstruct one from memory. Say it during the Communion of the Mass, in your own words if the printed ones do not fit your mouth. It is a real act of the Church and it counts.
Say whether this is a first Communion, a return after years away, or a question about receiving as a visitor.
One conversation with the Ordinary about where you are and what you already know. Nobody is quizzed.
For adults, individual and short. For children, at a parent’s request and paced to the child rather than to a group calendar.
Received at Sunday Mass, with whoever you want present and no announcement made unless you want one.
First Communions are recorded in the bound register in ink, in the name you use.
Required — not waivableFirst Communion, a return after a long absence, or a question about receiving as a visitor — all go to the same place.
Come to Sunday Mass and receive, or write first and ask whatever you need to ask.
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