Sunday, November 1, 2015

Receiving the Eucharist Unworthily

The recent Synod is full of liars. They are claiming not to effect doctrine only pastoral practices by letting "re-married" receive communion with no correction to their situation.  This is a lie.

The dogma is : Only the worthy  may receive the Eucharist.


SESSION THE THIRTEENTH, Pope Julius III., October,11,  1551,
DECREE CONCERNING THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST


CHAPTER VII.
On the preparation to be given that one may worthily receive the sacred Eucharist.
If it is unbeseeming for any one to approach to any of the sacred functions, unless he approach holily; assuredly, the more the holiness and divinity of this heavenly sacrament are understood by a Christian, the more diligently ought he to give heed that he approach not to receive it but with great reverence and holiness, especially as we read in the Apostle those WORDS FULL OF TERROR; He that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself. Wherefore, he who would communicate, ought to recall to mind the precept of the Apostle; Let a man prove himself. Now ecclesiastical usage declares that necessary proof to be, that NO ONE, conscious to himself  of mortal sin, HOW CONTRITE SOEVER HE MAY SEEM TO HIMSELF, ought to approach to the sacred Eucharist WITHOUT PREVIOUS SACRAMENTAL CONFESSION. This the holy Synod hath decreed is to be invariably observed by all Christians, even by those priests on whom it may be incumbent by their office to celebrate, provided the opportunity of a confessor do not fail them; but if, in an urgent necessity, a priest should celebrate without previous confession, let him confess as soon as possible.


CANON XI.-
lf any one saith, that faith alone is a sufficient preparation for receiving the sacrament of the most holy Eucharist; let him be anathema.

And for fear lest so great a sacrament may be received unworthily, and so unto death and condemnation, this holy Synod ordains and declares, that sacramental confession, when a confessor may be had, is of necessity to be made beforehand, by those whose conscience is burthened with mortal sin, HOW CONTRITE EVEN SOEVER THEY MAY THINK THEMSELVES. But if any one shall presume to teach, preach, or obstinately to assert, or even in public disputation to defend the contrary, he shall be thereupon excommunicated.

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As for making the moral obligations an "ideal" that non may fulfill. This too is a lie. Trent declared ALL the justified may fulfill the 10 commandments.


Council of Trent , SESSION THE SIXTH, January, 13, 1547.
DECREE ON JUSTIFICATION
CHAPTER XI.
On keeping the Commandments, and on the necessity and possibility thereof.
But no one, how much soever justified, ought to think himself exempt from the observance of the commandments; no one ought to make use of that rash saying, one prohibited by the Fathers under an anathema,-THAT THE OBSERVANCE OF THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ONE THAT IS JUSTIFIED.

For God commands NOT impossibilities, but, by commanding, both admonishes thee to do what thou are able, and to pray for what thou art not able (to do), and aids thee that thou mayest be able; whose commandments are not heavy; whose yoke is sweet and whose burthen light. For, whoso are the sons of God, love Christ; but they who love him, keep his commandments, as Himself testifies; which, assuredly, with the divine help, they can do.
CANON XVIII.-IF ANY ONE SAITH, THAT THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD ARE, even for one that is justified and constituted in grace, IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP; LET HIM BE ANATHEMA.