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CONFESSIONAND THEEUCHARIST
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SITUATION OF THECHURCH
St. Teresa Avila said, it
suffices to receive one holycommunion, for a soul to
be transformed into a saint
(Gal 2:20: It is no longer thatlives but Christ living in me.)
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The truth
is that manygo to communion
and there seems
to be no
transformationin their lives.
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On the contrary
when they go
back to theirfamilies or
homes,they show the
ugliness of their
temperament
like before.
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PROBLEM
John Paul II, Domenicae Cenae,24 Feb 1980 # 11, is concerned that
many go to communion without going
to confession.
a. In this Culture of Death, many
commit the sins of contraception and
various kinds of sexual sins.
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b. Others commitsins of lying and
dishonesty, of
anger andunkindness to
others, of
arrogance and
self-indulgence.
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c. Today Catholics pray
little, sin much andare in danger of even
losing their faith
altogether; yet theconfessional are
empty and 100% of
the church goersreceive communion.
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d. While it is not a requirement to go to confessionbefore receiving communion, nonetheless a person in the
state of mortal sin cannot receive communion or else he
desecrates the Eucharist and finds himself infested andan enemy of God.
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Among the Magisterial
prohibition on the reception of
Communion are:
1) Catechism of the Catholic
Church
a. According to the Church
command, after having attained
the age of discretion, each of thefaithful is bound by an obligation
faithfully to confess serious sins at
least once a year.
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b. Anyone who is aware of having committed amortal sin must not receive Holy Communion even if
he experiences deep contrition, without having first
received sacramental absolution, unless he has a
grave reason for receiving communion and there isno possibility of going to confession.
c. Children must go to the sacrament of Penance
before receiving Holy Communion for the first time.(CCC 1457).
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2) Canon Law
prohibits from receivingCommunion:
a. Those who areexcommunicated or interdicted after the
imposition or declaration of the penalty and
b. Those others who obstinately persist in manifest
grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy
Communion. (Can 915)
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3) Local
Magisterium
a. Archbishop
Raymond Burke of
St. Loius, Missouri,
banns communion
to politicians and
legislators who
openly proposedanti-life policies. (Cf.
Can 915)
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b. There is no element of the common good
that could justify voting for a candidate whoalso endorses, without restriction or
limitation, the deliberate killing of the
innocent, abortion, embryonic stem cellresearch, euthanasia, human cloning, or
same sex marriage. (cf. A Pastoral Letter of
Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, "On our Civic
Responsibility for the Common Good." [Dec.
2004])
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4) Among others prohibited to
receive communion by the Church
Teachings are the following:
a. Divorced and remarried (CCC
1649, 1650, 1651) withoutprejudice to those exemptions
mentioned in Familiaris Consortio
(1984) and the CDF Instruction on
14 October 1994).
b. Civilly married
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c. Living habitually with
partner in concubinage.d. Ex-Priest and perpetuallyprofessed religious who
married without laicization.e. Those excommunicatedand interdicted who are not
yet absolved by the Holy Seeand Bishop or their delegates.(Can 1331)
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5.Those who sin against the Holy Spirit, e.g. those
who do not believe that confession cannot absolve
them from their sins because of their grave sins.(cf.John Paul II, Encyclical on the Holy Spirit, 1987)
Case: Jerome & Helen
6.Those who make bad confession because
of shame, or convenience. (cf. St. Teresa of
Avila)
7.Those who cannot forgive and forget their
enemies.(cf. Our Father)
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Solution:
I.Delicate Conscience(cf. Benedict XVI, Conscience of Our Times, edited by Vincent
Twomee)
1.Those who have not lost their sense of sins and sense
of God.
II.Proper Disposition
1. Proper disposition is needed so souls mayonce again find their joy and peace when they
receive communion and not be hexed due to
irreverence of the Eucharist.
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a.King Lothaires
sacrilegious communionwith his entourage,
despite the Popes
warning of his illicitrelationship with
Waldrada, died of a
mysterious and horrible
death.
(1Cor11:27)
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King Lothaire and his
entourage were attacked by
satan with malignant fever;
they lost their speech; they
were tormented by an inward
fire and their nails, hair and
skin fell off. On the other hand,
the lives of the kings suite who
refrained from receiving
communion were spared.
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St.TeresaAvila: Sacrilegious confession and
communion bring about lost of faith andreduction of our lives to brutes.
St. Peter Julian Eymard: Sacrilegiousconfession and communion is punished by
lost of faith, delay of graces and withdrawal
of graces already received.(cf. Fr. Michael Muller, The Blessed Eucharist,TAN 1994, p. 167)
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SOLUTION
1. Benedict XVI (cfGod
is Near Us, 2003, pp. 59-60)
traces the reasonswhy grave sinners
go to communion
without going toconfession:
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a. Some scholars say
that the Eucharist of
the early Church was
built upon meals that
Jesus shared with his
disciples day after day
(Ibid. p.59)
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b. Others teachthe Eucharist is
the continuation
of the meals thatJesus held with
sinners .
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c. Still some say theEucharist is an open
table to which all may
come to encounter the
universal God, without
any limit or
denominational
conditions.
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d. Moreoverothers teach
that the
Eucharist is itselfthe sacrament
of reconciliation.
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2. Benedict XVI (cf.
God Near Us, 2003)teaches that the
Eucharist is only for
the reconciled and notfor sinners.
a. Scripture tells us inPaul (1 Cor 11:27)
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b. The Teachings of the Twelve
Apostles, one of the oldest writingsavailable outside the New
Testament, at the beginning of the
2ndcentury said that: Whoever is
holy, let him approach, he who is
not holy, let him do penance.
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c. Traditions teach that the
Eucharist from the very
beginning of its institution,
was meant only for the new
family of apostles who
were reconciled with God.
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3. Dominicae
Cenae. John Paul II,(1980) said many go
to communion
without going to
confession becauseof the wrong
morality on what is
good and evil. (DC,
# 11).
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a. The sacrament of Penanceleads to the sacrament of the
Eucharist; the sacrament of theEucharist opens to the
Sacrament of penance.
(DC, #7)
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4. Pastores Dabo Vobis,
John Paul II, (1995)
a. The priests spiritual and
pastoral life like that of his
brothers and sisters, lay andreligious depends for its
quality and fervour, on the
frequent and conscientious
personal practice of theSacrament of Penance.
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b. The priests celebration of the Eucharist and
administration of the other Sacraments, his pastoral
zeal, his relationship with the faithful, his
communion with his brothers priests, his
collaboration with his Bishop, his life of prayerin aword, the whole of his priestly existence, suffers an
inexorable decline if by negligence or for some
other reason he fails to receive the Sacrament of
penance at regular intervals and in a spirit ofgenuine faith and devotion.
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5. Mane Nobiscum, John Paul II,
(2004)
a. The mutual abiding of Jesus in
us and we in Him, enables us to
have a certain foretaste of
heaven on earth.
b. The Eucharistic communion
was given so that we might be
satiated with God here on earth,
in expectation of our complete
fulfillment in heaven.
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STORY
St. John Vianney who spends
16 hours per day in the
confessional is the typical
example of the close link
between the Eucharist andReconciliation. Making
people worthy or at least
properly disposed in
receiving communion in tenyears time change the whole
Ars into a cilivilation of love,
a priestly nation.
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APPLICATION
1. Cardinal George Pell, member of theCDF, speaks of how he fought against ideas
of seminarians who do not go to
confession because of the new concept of
sin that man is not capable of really
committing mortal sin.
a. Moreover, he lamented why seminariansare taught by professors that they do not
need to go to mass daily.
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2. His Solution
was to dismiss allthe seminarians
and professors,
and close theseminary for one
year.
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After that he recruitedseminarians who are daily mass
goers and believe in regular
confession. Moreover he managedto change all the professors with
authentic doctrines and fidelity tothe Magisterium.
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3. The seminary
is overflowing
with goodseminarians,
faithful to the
Pope.
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CHALLENGE
1. Saints who go to confession daily orregularly before celebrating mass, have
beautiful experiences of ecstasies after
communion are St. Francis Assisi, St. Claire, St.
Francis Sales, St. Francis Borgia, St. DominicSavio, St. Therese of Child Jesus, St. Hugh, St.
Thomas Aquinas, St. Louis Bertrand, St. Joseph
Cupertino, St. Ignatius, St. Leonard of Port
Maurice, etc. (cf. Stefano Mannelli, Jesus, Our
Eucharistic Love, 1973, pp. 42-43).
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2. With regular confession to the
oratory boys of Don Bosco almost 1/3
of them fall into ecstasy after
communion.
3. St. Teresa of Avila, Magdalene of
Pazzi, Gemma Galgani, Rose of Lima,
Aloysius Gonzaga, they all fall intoecstasy after communion.
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4. If they can why
cant we so that
we have a
meaningful
encounter with
Jesus, really
present, Body,
Blood, Soul,Divinity of Jesus
Christ.
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