Eucharist and Salvation

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I’ve got a question regarding the role of the Eucharist in salvation. Now to go to heaven we need sanctifying grace in our soul. Baptism restores this grace lost through original sin. Mortal sin causes us to lose it again. Confession brings it back. So obviously confession and baptism are necessary for salvation. Now, regarding the Eucharist, Jesus said unless we eat His flesh we will not have eternal life. So obviously the Eucharist is also a necessity for salvation. But as we are already in a state of grace when we partake, does it simply give us more grace strengthening us so we do not fall as easily (our spiritual food)? Or is it that refusing to partake when we can is an act that removes grace, being a direct act of disobedience and a rejection of Jesus? Now, it goes without saying, uniting one’s self with Christ is good standing alone, but I just wanted to understand it’s relationship with regards to sanctifying grace. Can anyone explain this?

 

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Bellow are passages from the CCC I hope they help,

But I wonder also about all the people who are not catholic or who never recieve communion cause they know nothing about our faith. I wonder what will happen to them. Well I guess if they dont know any better it isnt their fault. I wish everyone could see what a beautiful gift we recieve in the Eucharist and how truely wonderful the Catholic faith is.

1394 As bodily nourishment restores lost strength, so the Eucharist strengthnes our charity, which tends to be weakened in daily life; and this living charity *wipes away venial sins. * By giving himself to us Christ revives our love and enables us to break our diordered attachments to creatures and root ourselves in him…

1395 By the same charity that it enkindles in us, the Eucharist preserves us from future mortal sins.The more we share the life of Christ and progress in his friendship, the more difficult it is to break away from him by mortal sin. The Eucharist is not ordered to the forvieness of mortal sins- that is proper to the sacrament of Reconciliation. The Eucharist is properly the sacrament of those who are in full communion with the Church.

1405 There is no surer pledge or clearer sign of this great hope in the new heavens and new earth “in which righteousness dwells,” than the Eucharist. Every time this mystery is celbrated, “the work of our redemption is carried on” and we “break the one bread that provides the medicine of immortality, the antidote for death, and the food that makes us live for ever in Jesus Christ.”

Kerri