How Do Priests Behave With Communion When They Are Not In State Of Gra

[organwerke]

I've always wondered about this: a priest makes Holy Communion every day, but how does he do if he is not in a state of grace and is not able to confess? Has he to commit sacrilege anyway? Or makes the Moral Theology a sort of "exception" for him due to his job, until he is able to confess?

[cappie]

Can. 916 Anyone who is conscious of grave sin may not celebrate Mass or receive the Body of the Lord without previously having been to sacramental confession, unless there is a grave reason and there is no opportunity to confess; in this case the person is to remember the obligation to make an act of perfect contrition, which includes the resolve to go to confession as soon as possible.

A grave reason would exist for a priest who had to say Mass for a congregation.