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To: Sub-Driver
Better yet, EXCOMMUNICATE HER!!
6 posted on 09/08/2008 5:16:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

**Better yet, EXCOMMUNICATE HER!!**

DITTO


14 posted on 09/08/2008 5:29:59 PM PDT by gwilhelm56 (Orwell's 1984 - to Conservatives a WARNING, to Liberals - a TEXTBOOK)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Better yet, EXCOMMUNICATE HER!!"

What many people don't know is that being forbidden to receive Communion is indeed a form of excommunication. In the Catholic Church the Eucharist is Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, not just a symbol of Him. It is the central point of the Mass, to receive Christ in a state of grace, that is, with a repentent, contrite heart. If you cannot receive Jesus Christ in the Eucharist due to grave, obstinate sin, then you have been bannished from participating in the Mass. You may 'attend' the Mass of course, for all the good it will do you as an unrepentent, obstinate sinner who openly defies an elemental Church teaching, (Thou Shalt Not Kill), and actively paves the way for others to do the same.

In other words, being forbidden by a Bishop to receive Communion because you are living in obstinate, grave sin means that you're living a life contrary to Jesus Christ; so you seperate yourself from Him here and hereafter, (unless you repent, of course). So through excommunication or being forbidden to receive the Eucharist the Church merely reminds you of that fact. But will Pelosi repent and change her policy?

24 posted on 09/08/2008 11:01:56 PM PDT by rangeryder (If a man says something in the woods, is he still wrong?)
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