Everyone who has died a physical death is alive somewhere.
Even those who never ate communion as you say must be done.
Try again.
Exactly Metmom...but catholics continue to use the “but they are alive” approach to justify what they so desperately want to hold onto. It’s like getting a kid to unlock his fist from the candy in his hand....and come to dinner where the food is nourishing to his body.
Not so. Those who have forsaken Christ and forfeited the eternal life of Salvation are dead.
In Hell, often (Mt. 25:41). John 6, by the way, does not say that those who do not receive the Eucharist all go to hell. Indeed, since we are judged by our works it is possible to reach sainthood by your works. There are even canonized saints who were not yet baptized and therefore not yet receving the Eucharist when they were martyred. The Eucharist is said to give us eternal life as a sure way to heaven, but not the only way.