Posted on 04/15/2015 1:38:52 PM PDT by NYer
“The Orthodox Churches are not Catholic, but may receive.”
Not without self excommunicating themselves.
The state of the priests soul is irrelevant. He is the in person am Cristi.
I’m an EME. If someone walks up to me and says, I am living in sin but want Communion anyway I would not offer the host. Other than that I do not know the state of his/her soul.
Well during the Arian crisis 75% of the Church was in schism at one point in time or another, I think things may be worse now.
Is the schismatic portion still considered "of the Church"?
Actually, I don’t see that accusation often. I have made it here and I don’t recall a fellow Catholic ever agreeing with me. That’s because they have been told by the post-Vatican II church that Protestants aren’t called heretics anymore. Heretics only lived in the 1500’s.
Of course you are not in a position to know, it is the personal responsibility of the communicant.
I can’t help but wonder what your practicing mother has to say, to your lapsed Catholic sister and the protestant brother-in-law, about the dangers to the soul, for receiving our Lord when entirely outside of a state of grace and from outside the Church.
What is it that Catholics and their priests are silent against mortal sin, in these cases, even are complicit in mortal sin?
I believe it is lack of belief in the Real Presence, which is a mortal sin in its own right. Just wondering what you think. Your own respect for the Eucharist is a virtue, my friend.
I don’t recall Jesus making any distinction about denominational lines when He served the bread and the wine.
Interestingly, Catholics insist that eternal, spiritual life is given through eating the eucharist, tell those who are not Catholics in good standing or not Catholics at all, that they cannot receive communion, thereby denying them the opportunity to receive eternal life, and then try to deny that salvation is not though their church alone, as the CCC says when it states that there is no salvation outside the Catholic church.
They’d deny the opportunity for eternal life to those seeking is because they’re not part of the approved elite.
They’re like the Pharisees who try to prevent those from entering in who would want to, unless they jump through the right hoops, saying that they alone have the keys to eternal life and yet being the self-appointed gatekeepers who are more intent on keeping people out than letting them in.
If they look like Nancy Polosi or Ted Kennedy, vocal advocates of "a woman's right to choose", absent an equally vocal retraction of said advocacy, they're baby-killers.
I honestly have never seen them call Protestants “heretics”. I have seen phrases like “heretical views” or call a belief “heresy”.
Are you saying you’ve seen a lot of the former or latter?
A year ago Easter our granddaughter entered the Church. Her mother, my daughter, and our son showed up as well as our granddaughter’s father who has never been a protestant. I started encouraging my daughter and son to go to confession a month or two ahead of the service. I didn’t feel like it was my job to ask them whether they went. I am pretty sure that they did not and that they are not in current communion with the Church. They and even my former son in law trooped up for Communion. Should I have tackled them? :-\
You and I have discussed this before I believe.
The way the Orthodox view reception of Holy Communion is how the Catholic Church used to view it and enforce it.
Yeah, Rome used to be a lot tighter on this subject. And a few others now that I think about it.
I have no desire to stand in a “communion line” in a Roman church...that bread is a demonic idol..
bkmk
I am not Catholic and do not want to be.
With that said, I respect their beliefs, and I would never even CONSIDER taking communion while attending a Mass in a Catholic Church as a guest/visitor.
Darn tootin it was.
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