A Topic of Moral Theology
The Requisites for Valid Reception
What is required in the recipient for a sacrament to be valid.
The works themselves ask 2 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Also asked about as…
valid reception of a sacrament · what is needed to receive a sacrament validly (ed.)
In the index as Intention · Sacrament · Sacraments · Attention · Implicit · Reception of a Sacrament · The dying · Disposition · Distraction · Extreme Unction · Habitual · Internal · Interpretative · Nullity · Presumed intention · Reception · Reception of the sacraments · Religion · Requisite Conditions · Soul · Subject
In the manuals
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Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. I, Diss. III, Pt. II, Section I. On the Requisites for Valid Reception, nn. 39, 40 & 41 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)
Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. IV, Art. 1. The Sacraments in …, The Recipient of the Sacraments; Requisites for Valid Reception, nn. 2671, 2672, 2673 & 2674 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Sacrament…, Fourth Part: On the Cause …, Question Three: On the Rec…, Article I: On the Conditions Required for Valid Reception, nn. 91, 92, 93, 94 & 95 (31 passages — hover a number to read it)
Compendium of Moral Theology
Vol. II, Tr. XI, Ch. IV, Article I. On the Requisites for the Valid Reception of the Sacraments, nn. 645, 646 & 646, Q. 2 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading The dispositions required of the recipient — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)