Does 1 Cor.11:34 responds to 11:29? (Unworthy communion)

[fabio_rocha]

We as Catholics say 1 Corinthians 11:29 ("*For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body") *means that anyone who wishes to receive communion in a worthy manner should be a baptized Catholic in a state of grace. But verse 34 seems to give the answer… *“But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together for judgment”.
*
Paul rebukes the Corinthians for their selfish and inconsiderate conduct during their church meetings. *“When you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat, for as you eat, each of you goes ahead without waiting for anybody else. One remains hungry, another gets drunk. Don’t you have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing?” *(11:20-21).

It seems that some Corinthian Christians were eating in an “unworthy manner” because their selfish behaviour was a contradiction of the unity of the church, the body, brought forth by the Eucharist celebration, not anything to do with what the Catholic Church declared as norm for worthy reception of the Eucharist.

If a protestant comes to me if this line of thinking, how should I reply?

 

[spiderweb]

They were treating the Eucharist as common food and as such were not partaking of it worthily. He tells them to “eat at home” and not partake of the Eucharist as if it is simply bread and wine for physical nourishment. By not “discerning the Lord’s body” their treatment of the Eucharist as common food is a sacrilege, for which they eat and drink judgment upon themselves.

The guidelines for who may or may not receive the Eucharist in the Catholic Church are there to safeguard the precious body and blood of Christ from sacrilege and the person who may receive it unworthily.