Can one receive communion more than once a day?
Since 1983, we have had a new Code of Canon Law.
Here is the new discipline. Anyone can receive communion twice a day if he is hearing (attending, participating in) two Masses. You need not be "actively ministering."
What is forbidden? A second Communion outside of Mass (except as viaticum); also, a second Communion during a Mass at which one is not participating, e.g., if you drop in for a visit and find Communion being given just at that time, and you have already received Communion that day, you may not receive again (because you aren't hearing the whole Mass). The only provision for a third Communion on the same day is this: a person has heard two full Masses and received twice on the same day. Then he becomes suddenly and seriously ill. He may then receive viaticum (and he should!).
Sincerely in Christ,
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