[XEHRpa]

both the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches, precisely because they “have preserved the authentic and integral nature of the eucharistic mystery,” unlike the simple “Communities” created by the Protestant Reformation, with which the “ecclesial character of the Eucharist” is, instead, a matter of ecumenical dialogue.

I predict that will go over like a turd in a hamburger bun as this thread unfolds. I'm outta here.

[Salvation]

**Benedict XVI cautions against going to communion all the time, automatically, as if “the mere fact of their being present in church during the liturgy gives them a right or even an obligation to approach the table of the Eucharist.” One reason for this “superficial approach,” he writes, is the widespread loss of the sense of sin. In order to go to communion, one must be “in a state of grace.” In the following paragraph, the pope encourages the faithful to go to confession frequently. And he warns that individual confession must be the ordinary form, “limiting the practice of general absolution exclusively to the cases permitted.” **

God bless Pope Benedict for calling all Catholics back to the Sacrament of Reconciliation!