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St. Cyril of Jerusalem said: "They who make a
sacrilegious Communion receive Satan and Jesus Christ into their hearts -
Satan, that they may let him rule, and Jesus Christ, that they may offer Him in
sacrifice as a Victim to Satan."
The Lord said to St. Bridget, "there does not
exist on earth a punishment which is great enough to punish it
sufficiently!"
The Council of Trent: “For fear lest so great a sacrament
may be received unworthily, and so unto death and condemnation, this holy Synod
ordains and declares, that sacramental confession, when a confessor may be had,
is of necessity to be made beforehand, by those whose conscience is burdened with
mortal sin, how contrite even soever they may think themselves. But if any one
shall presume to teach, preach, or obstinately to assert, or even in public
disputation to defend the contrary, he shall be thereupon excommunicated.”
US Bishops, 2006: “If we are no longer in the state of grace
because of mortal sin, we are seriously obliged to refrain from receiving Holy
Communion until we are reconciled with God and the Church. While we remain
members of the body of Christ and continue to be part of the Catholic Church,
we have become lifeless or dead members. We no longer share in the common bond
of the divine life of the Holy Spirit. Because our sin has separated us from
God and from our brothers and sisters in Christ, we have forfeited our right to
receive Holy Communion, for the Eucharist, by its very nature, expresses and
nurtures this lifegiving unity that the sinner has now lost.”
Examples of mortal sins, given by USCCB:
• Believing in or honoring as divine anyone or anything
other than the God of the Holy
Scriptures
• Swearing a false oath while invoking God as a witness
• Failing to worship God by missing Mass on Sundays and holy
days of obligation
without a serious reason, such as sickness or the absence of
a priest
• Acting in serious disobedience against proper authority;
dishonoring one’s parents by
neglecting them in their need and infirmity
• Committing murder, including abortion and euthanasia;
harboring deliberate hatred of others; sexual abuse of another, especially of a
minor or vulnerable adult; physical or
verbal abuse of others that causes grave physical or
psychological harm
• Engaging in sexual activity outside the bonds of a valid
marriage
• Stealing in a gravely injurious way, such as robbery,
burglary, serious fraud, or other
immoral business practices
• Speaking maliciously or slandering people in a way that
seriously undermines their
good name
• Producing, marketing, or indulging in pornography
• Engaging in envy that leads one to wish grave harm to
someone else
USCCB: “If a Catholic in his or her personal or professional
life were knowingly and obstinately to reject the defined doctrines of the
Church, or knowingly and obstinately to repudiate her definitive teaching on
moral issues, however, he or she would seriously diminish his or her communion
with the Church. Reception of Holy Communion in such a situation would not accord
with the nature of the Eucharistic celebration, so that he or she should
refrain”
