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catholic1012015
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What’s superstitious about receiving the Eucharist? We’re talking about transubstantiation, God is God, and the Eucharist is the Body Blood Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ.
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puer.dei
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Except that nobody said that. If you look at what the post is responding to, you’ll easily see that the reference is to the “it depends on a person’s disposition at the time of receiving” theory of getting sick. THAT does smack of superstition.
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catholic1012015
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How so? Why wouldn’t our disposition matter to God when we receive Him?
If i have a chance to come back on here today I will, but there must be a misunderstanding. Here’s where I’m coming from and our dispositions do matter when receiving the Lord.
I Cor 11:27-31
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“27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be answerable for the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Examine yourselves, and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For all who eat and drink without discerning the body, eat and drink judgment against themselves. 30 For this reason many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. 31 But if we judged ourselves, we would not be judged.”
If i have a chance to come back on here today I will, but there must be a misunderstanding. Here’s where I’m coming from and our dispositions do matter when receiving the Lord.
I Cor 11:27-31
Canon 916
CCC 1388
“27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be answerable for the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Examine yourselves, and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For all who eat and drink without discerning the body, eat and drink judgment against themselves. 30 For this reason many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. 31 But if we judged ourselves, we would not be judged.”
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TheLittleLady
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Our disposition matters. Our disposition does not make the Eucharist or Chalice magically free of bacteria, viruses, etc.
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puer.dei
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And nobody said our disposition doesn’t matter, either.
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catholic1012015
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Not sure what’s going in here but I didn’t say anything was magical. And God is sovereign, He has the power to heal. He also can allow us to choose to do the wrong thing and we would have to ask for forgiveness for that.
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Emeraldlady
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Do you think the Church around the world was wrong when they cancelled Masses during the Spanish flu in 1918? That was before Vatican II and in a time of increased faith and Mass attendance.
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IanM
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As far as I am aware there is no record as to how Our Lord distributed Communion at the Last Supper. Knowing, as he did, that it was no longer unleavened bread but the body, blood, soul and divinity of Himself suggests to me, at least, that its changed nature would be emphasised by by a changed way of distributing it. Of course we all must all wait to find out the answer.
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pnewton
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Do you understand that the substance has changed only, not the form? It does not become muscle cells and red blood cells, along with everything that can be transmitted. Sure, God does miracles, but Catholics do not handle snakes and presume on God’'s power to protect us. What the Church does is take reasonable precautions to avoid disease transmission and not presume of God.
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