Church is for sinners not saints

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I wanted to ask for advice on what to say to someone who complains that the Church doesn’t let sinners easily come to receive the Eucharist. The argument goes that Jesus came for the sinners, so they should be able to come to receive the sacraments without so many “impediments” like confession, etc…

What do you say to someone like that?
 
I believe what Saint Paul says in 1 Corinthians 11:27-32. We must examine ourselves before receiving the Eucharist. If we are in the state of mortal sin then we chose to completely sever our relationship with God. How can we do that and then receive Him in the Eucharist without going to Sacramental Reconciliation first?? It’s like I punch you in the face and then invite you to my home without saying that I am sorry first. And that pales in comparison…Yes, the Church is full of sinners and Christ calls sinners to Himself in the way that He instituted: Reconciliation. See John 20:19-23
 
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I wanted to ask for advice on what to say to someone who complains that the Church doesn’t let sinners easily come to receive the Eucharist. The argument goes that Jesus came for the sinners, so they should be able to come to receive the sacraments without so many “impediments” like confession, etc…

What do you say to someone like that?
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and what did Jesus invariably do when he confronted sinners. He forgave their sins and commanded them to go in peace in sin no more. Find me one instance where he counseled them to continue in their sin.
 
Charybdis said:
I wanted to ask for advice on what to say to someone who complains that the Church doesn’t let sinners easily come to receive the Eucharist. The argument goes that Jesus came for the sinners, so they should be able to come to receive the sacraments without so many “impediments” like confession, etc…

What do you say to someone like that?
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Get out.

Just kidding. 😃
 
Jesus came to Zacchaeus’s house because of the disposition of his heart, not merely because he is a sinner. Read that part of the Bible and meditate on this.
 
Charybdis said:
I wanted to ask for advice on what to say to someone who complains that the Church doesn’t let sinners easily come to receive the Eucharist. The argument goes that Jesus came for the sinners, so they should be able to come to receive the sacraments without so many “impediments” like confession, etc…

What do you say to someone like that?
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1 Corinthians 11:27

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The argument goes that Jesus came for the sinners, so they should be able to come to receive the sacraments without so many “impediments” like confession, etc…
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How sad it is when confession, that great meeting of the soul with Christ to receive in a personal and loving way, the very forgiveness of God, is called an “impediment.”

Betsy
 
1 Cor 11
27 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. 28 A person should examine himself, and so eat the bread and drink the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. 30 That is why many among you are ill and infirm, and a considerable number are dying.

no wonder the church is in the state it is in now
 
Some people love to create this Jesus that “hung out with sinners” as a sort of proof that we, too, should embrace every sin without flinching.

Thing is, the sinners Jesus “hung out with” were all of the repentant kind. You know, the ones who sinned, but sought forgiveness.

I’d tell people who whine about having to jump through pesky hoops like confession and whatnot to check out that whole Prodigal Son story. The son got to approach the table of his Father AFTER he repented and asked for forgiveness- not during his debauchery.
 
Charybdis said:
I wanted to ask for advice on what to say to someone who complains that the Church doesn’t let sinners easily come to receive the Eucharist. The argument goes that Jesus came for the sinners, so they should be able to come to receive the sacraments without so many “impediments” like confession, etc…

What do you say to someone like that?
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“Impediments”? That is not what I would call confession.

Protestants don’t understand the incredible power that infuses us with confession, or more accurately, reconciliation.
 
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