Joe Biden Denied Holy Communion

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Maximus1 said:
I didn’t read that they ever met
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I didn’t read that they didn’t. It is not necessarily likely, but this isn’t a priest who has spent his entire life in cloistered in a seminary. He has also put in many years of service as a federal employee.
 
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I also support the priest. We have an Orthodox church nearby where, on Sanctity of Life Sunday, the priest said: “Our church is pro-life. If you don’t support life, well, there’s the door. Come back when you’ve repented.”
 
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Just as I would support a priest refusing to administer the blessed sacrament to women or men who use contraception, or are party to others using it.
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I hear you. However, contraceptors are not normally manifest public sinners. Contraception by its nature is a private act — oh, all the angels and saints in heaven see you doing it, but it’s private this side of eternity. Unless the priest had learned outside of confession — a priest may not act on something he has heard only in confession — that a person were contracepting, he would have no way to know. (My own ideas about telling people in general that they must not receive communion if they are contracepting have been brought out in past forum posts and I won’t repeat them here.)
DIERM said:
Lines, in this case, might be shorter for communion.
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I wouldn’t, but many readers would call this “judging”.
EnglishTeacher said:
One would think that this is a such a basic teaching that all Catholics would know about it, but you would be surprised how many do not. I have heard young Catholics say that no one ever told them that they should refrain from receiving Communion if they have committed a grave sin and not yet been to confession. And I have heard older Catholics express some confusion as to whether the Church still teaches this or whether it was one of those things done away with after Vatican II.
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Sad but true. As a rule, there is the general idea that anything “strict” about the Catholic religion was done away with after Vatican II. Many people think you can do anything you want to, just as long as you’re a “good person” and don’t steal, rob, kill, or do anything that “good people” wouldn’t do in the first place. Sex before marriage, “shacking up”, staying away from Mass during one’s young adulthood, it’s all good, God loves us. Easy-peasy, wine-and-cheesie.
 
Good! No man can serve 2 masters. Either you are for God or you are not. That applies to politicians and others who speak with forked tongues.
 
About time!

1 Corinthians 5 NABRE (USCCB):


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9 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people,
10 not at all referring to the immoral of this world or the greedy and robbers or idolaters; for you would then have to leave the world.g
11 But I now write to you not to associate with anyone named a brother, if he is immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a robber, not even to eat with such a person.h
12 For why should I be judging outsiders? Is it not your business to judge those within?
13 God will judge those outside. “Purge the evil person from your midst.”i
 
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It isn’t haughtiness that I spoke of.
In terms of the Eucharist, everyone is rank unworthy. " Lord I am unworthy to recieve you." But we love the rush of worthiness at the expense of others who must be unworthy, to make it work.
Thanks, I am familiar with the passage in Corinthians. How it serves as the basis of discipline ( no communion).
I read it many times and it is in the context of unruly conduct during the lords supper. Eating other things, drinking, and conduct unbefitting the dignity of the liturgy. It covers lots of conduct now outside of those Corinth early masses.
 
Finally, we have at least one priest in this country who is true to God.
 
I don’t think that’s the case at all. People are tired of seeing these politicians claiming to be loyal Catholics while they push legislation & give their full approval of abortion against Church teaching. It’s not done privately - it’s very public - gives the impression that the Church approves of abortion, & it’s just not good overall.
 
I know I am.

He’s not the only Catholic politician promoting abortion.
 
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Here’s 1 Corinthians 11 NABRE (USCCB):


Tradition of the Institution. (http://www.usccb.org/bible/1corinthians/11#54011023-1)

23 For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you,k that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread,

24 and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

25 In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”l

26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.

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 .

31 If we discerned ourselves, we would not be under judgment ;

32 but since we are judged by [the] Lord, we are being disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world .m

33 Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

34 If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that your meetings may not result in judgment . The other matters I shall set in order when I come.
 
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You mean pro-abortion. The Democratic Party has spoken. It’s not about “choice”. It’s promoting abortion as the only acceptable option politically - or else.
 
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