Is it permissible for a person to receive the body and blood of our Lord every day?

St. Basil talks about praying the Divine Liturgy daily: “Now, to receive Communion daily, thus to partake of the holy Body and Blood of Christ, is an excellent and advantageous practice; for Christ Himself says clearly: ‘He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life everlasting’ (John 6:54). Who doubts that to share continually in the life is nothing else than to have a manifold life? We ourselves, of course, receive Communion four times a week, on

1483 St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew 50.3 (NPNF I/10:303).

1484 St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on John 46.3 (NPNF I/14:164–165).

1485 St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on the First Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians 24.8, 7 (NPNF I/12:143, 142).

1486 St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on John 46.4 (NPNF I/14:165).

Sundays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays; also on other days, if there is a commemoration of some saint.”¹⁴⁸⁷

He also says, “The daily Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ is great and beneficial because the Lord declares: ‘Unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you’ (John 6:53).”¹⁴⁸⁸

St. Augustine says, “Throughout these days the teachers feed you. Christ daily feeds you, That His Table is ever ordered before you. What is the reason, O Hearers, that you see the Table, and come not to the Banquet?”¹⁴⁸⁹