Thoes who never recieve communion

[6glargento]

i always hear the debate over wether or not ppl who die without recieveing baptism will go to heaven. but what about thoes who do not recieve communion?
Jesus said that “unless you east my flesh and drink my blood you have no life in you…” Form this, can we assume that thoes who do not recieve the eucharist, even children who have not yet recieved communion, might not go to heaven?

 

[puzzleannie]

NOMB, my concern is with my own soul, then with those over whom I have been given influence to guide and teach. Even then my only role is to do the guiding and teaching. Jesus saves, not me. My job as a baptized Catholic is to evangelize so that those with whom I come in contact hear the Gospel. How they respond to the message is between them and the Holy Spirit.

 

[Joysong]

When Jesus sent the apostles, He told them to " Mt. 28:19 Go therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Baptism, therefore, is necessary for salvation.

However, Jesus used the image of the vine and the branches, telling us that unless we “abide” in Him, we will not be fruitful. Jn. 15:4 “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me.”

What does it mean to abide in Him? The only other scripture that uses this word is Jn. 6:57, “For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed. He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, abides in me, and I in him.”

That says to me that the way we abide in Him and He in us is through the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.

But to answer your question, it is not necessary to have received Eucharist to get to heaven, but for the ineffable fullness of life and abiding in Christ, who would not want to receive?

 

[MountainMan]

6g -

It seems to me that the thing to remember is that God is just and merciful; He welcomes those who welcome him and those who earnestly seek Him; I suggest you read John Paul II’s “Dominus Jesus,” which is available on the Vatican web site and some others, for a more complete understanding of the Church’s position on what is required for salvation.

Chuck