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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel the exact same as OP. But I’ll say- the church doesn’t want you back. Not the Arlington diocese. I was told not to attend or take communion because my kids weren’t baptized. I feel like at this point there are too many barriers for me to attend and I just can’t. I’m not sure why I can’t join by myself but they aren’t interested. I can go to mass, but can’t register or become a member. Can’t take communion.

I miss the church I grew up with. [/quote]

Well. the church you grew up with is long gone.  It's like missing that old swimming hole that's dried up or become a drainage ditch.  Nothing remains or it's been befouled.  Now it's only a pleasant memory.[/quote]

Catholics don’t “take” communion. They “receive it.”  As for being told not to attend, while that may be what you “heard,” I have to think there was a significant miscommunication and/or you were talking to someone other than the parish priest. If you are a baptized Catholic, you are obliged to attend Sunday Mass, even if formally excommunicated. If the problem is that your children are not baptized, how can that be remedied if you do not attend Mass and develop a parish relationship?  As for receiving communion, all that should stand between you and that should be a good confession and a firm purpose of amendment.

All of these things are perennial Church teaching. [/quote]

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