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When you cannot participate at Mass, you may share Holy Communion at a Communion service. These services originated for those who were unable to attend the Eucharist due to illness.

Catholics usually share Communion at Mass no more than once a day. The Catholic faithful gather once a week and share Communion at the Sunday Eucharist.

Visitors to Catholic parishes often complain that they may not join in Communion at Mass.

As a wag has said, it's easier to believe that bread really becomes the Body of Christ than it is to believe that the host is really bread.

Bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ during the Eucharistic Prayer at Mass.