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If you are clean the night before church, but in the morning, you are unclean for a man such as expulsion of semen. Are you forbidden to take Holy Communion?

According to the biblical instructions stated in the Old Testament, which continues to be observed in the New Testament: "If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall wash all his body in water, and be unclean until evening" (Leviticus 15:16). We do not interpret these instructions as defilement, but rather as if his fasting was broken. Thus, he cannot partake of Holy Communion on that day.