Thanks NYer. I went to confession last Saturday and it is amzing how that sacrament cleanses one’s soul and really helps with the temptation to commit the same sins again - it is truly stengthening to have a clean soul.
As far as the article: “at least 8 years of Catechism” and they still all feel holy enough to receive cofession without communion, it is because from the 1970’s on the catechesis didn’t address and completely purposefully ignored the true doctrine that it is a mortal sin to receive communion unworthily. They just don’t teach that anymore - at least not in the liberal northeastern dioceses where I was badly catchized in the 1970’s and then through the 40 years sicne as I have been raising ny daughters, they don’t. It was my own personal study and research that caused me to “stumble” on this incredibly important teaching!
It is right in the bible and vrey easy to understand:
1 Corinthians Chapter 11 verses 27 / 29
Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.
These verses also clearly refer to the catholic (true) interpretation of the bible vs. the protestant - that the commemoration commanded in the Lord’s Supper includes the literal body of Christ, not a symbol.
sorry for mispellings - thought I had caught them all -
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