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Father, why does the Church say one must, at a minimum, go to confession and receive communion at least once a year>? Sounds like pretty low standards to me.
That is right; it is a minimum. What is under pain of Mortal Sin cannot be too rigorous. The very recent practice for many Catholics is to receive Communion whether they are confessed or not, whether they are prepared or not, whether they are fasting or not. Many Communions today are purely sacrilegious. This has not been the traditional practice of the Church, when the faithful would received only a few times a year when properly prepared, as at Eastertide.
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