Sacred Blood of Santarem               Miracle of Lanciano
     preserved in a vial                        earliest recorded
                                                            Eucharistic Miracle

       Within the Church there have always been and will always be false teachers. Surveys have indicated that in the 1990's, 70% of Catholics no longer believe in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. Yet, all who attend Mass are being encouraged to receive Holy Communion. Sin is no longer recognized or believed to be a reason not to receive Holy Eucharist. The Biblical admonition to not receive, unless first examined and found worthy, is sacrilegiously abused.

       "Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord. A person should examine himself, and so eat the bread and drink the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many among you are ill and infirm, and a considerable number are dying." [1 Cor. 11:27-30]

COMMENT:  Only those who are in union with the Chair of Peter,
who are practicing Catholics and free of mortal sin
may receive Holy Communion
without committing a grave sin of sacrilege.

       There is only one true Christian Church. Those who claim to be Christians, but do not belong to the true Church are either apostates, heretics, or schismatics. In any case they are under automatic excommunication and therefore, without committing a mortal sin of sacrilege, they cannot receive the true Holy Eucharist which only exists in the Catholic Church. The holding of a strong belief does not make the belief fact.  NOTE: A morally consecrated bishop who becomes validly excommunicated cannot validly ordain a priest or consecrate a bishop.
COMMENT: A legal excommunication is not necessarily a valid excommunication

       While legal excommunication separates non-Catholic Christians from the sacraments of Penance, Holy Eucharist, Confirmation, Holy Orders, and the Anointing of the Sick, this does not necessarily mean that they are to be automatically excluded from Heaven unless they have failed to reasonably seek truth and then put the acquired truth into practice. They are not accountable for unknowable truths.

       To give a non-Catholic Holy Communion would be to lend credibility to the concept that they are full Christians and are living in a form of truth acceptable to God..

       Another contemporary aberration concerning Holy Communion is that those who receive both the consecrated bread and the consecrated wine share more fully in the Holy Sacrament. The truth is that those who receive under both species are either displaying their ignorance of the teachings of the Council of Trent (permanently obligatory Catholic teachings), or are denying that Jesus is whole and entire under either species, that is, they falsely believe that they are receiving less than the full indivisible Jesus by receiving only one Holy Species.

   

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