To: DogwoodSouth
Well, one clue is the fact that everyone in the church building receives communion - even though the statistical likelihood of every person in the building having refrained from serious sin or having confessed their sins before communion is about 0%.
If people were seriously examining their consciences during the Confiteor, that wouldn't happen.
20 posted on
02/25/2008 7:26:55 AM PST by
wideawake
(Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
To: wideawake
I bet that many who receive have never been told of the requirements. 30+ years with no real teaching creates a lot of folks who are ignorant (not necessarily disobedient). I can’t remember ever hearing a priest talk about it, at least not from the pulpit.
Freegards
29 posted on
02/25/2008 8:01:27 AM PST by
Ransomed
(Son of Ransomed says Keep the Faith!)
To: wideawake
Well, one clue is the fact that everyone in the church building receives communion I always thought that the fact that everyone except me receives communion at every Catholic mass I go to (and I go every week) meant that you Catholics had the whole sin thing whipped.
Gee whiz...
46 posted on
02/25/2008 9:26:42 AM PST by
Jim Noble
(I've got a home in Glory Land that outshines the sun)
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