| | Thank you for your kind question. To be a member of the Catholic Church or any Christian church a person must be baptised. St Paul to be Christian, after his conversion, was baptised by Ananias. Baptism is dying and resurrecting in Jesus Christ. The Canon Law No. 849 says: “Baptism, the gate way to the sacraments, is necessary for salvation, either by actual reception or at least by desire. By it people are freed from sins, are born again as children of God and, made to be like Christ by an indelible character, are incorporated into the Church. It is validly conferred only by a washing in real water with the proper form of words.”
Therefore a non-baptised person cannot receive any sacrament of the church. Therefore, dear Ally, just in case you are not baptised you cannot absolutely receive the Eucharist either during Mass or outside Mass.
Yours in Christ
Fr. Eugene Ferrari
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