Pray for me brothers and sisters, it’s been too long since I received Communion. I border on despair, but thank God a glimmer of hope rests as a perpetual flame in my heart.
"We do not go to Holy Communion because we are good; we go to become good". ~ Saint John Bosco "The Eucharist is not a prize for the perfect, but medicine for sinners". ~ Pope Francis "Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy". ~ Saint Thérèse of Lisieux "The more Eucharist we receive, the more we will become like Jesus, so that on earth we will have a foretaste of heaven". ~ Blessed Carlo Acutis "The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host." ~ Archbishop Fulton Sheen Take this, ALL OF YOU, AND EAT OF IT, for this is my Body, which will be given up for you. ~ Holy Mass We are all Barabbas'. Jesus became a substitute for us. Jesus goes off to the Cross in your place. He gets what you deserve; you get what he deserves. It is the greatest exchange in all of history. Jesus gives up his life so that you can live.
Unfortunately, we have priests who say don't worry you can receive communion even in sin and then go to Confession. Problem is that some of us don't know what is mortal vs venial sin. So if we receive Eucharist in mortal sin it can as scripture says cause harm. Plus we are crucifying Jesus again.
Jesus was crucified more than 2000 years ago, silly. Do you think he's continually being crucified? I thought heaven was a place of happiness, not horrible pain and despair.
POPE BENEDICT XVI: “When attending Mass and receiving the Eucharist, Catholic must be filled with gratitude for God’s great gifts. Despite the fact that we have nothing to give in return and we are full of faults, Jesus invites us to his table and wants to be with us.” ST. JOHN BAPTISTE DE LA SALLE: “Some say that they are not worthy to take communion often. We take communion not because we are holy, but in order to become so... Union with Jesus in communion makes us able to share in his holiness.”
I know in my heart when I need to go to confession, it's like something saying don't take you need the sacrament of confession first, so till I go to the booth I don't take, unfortunately a lot don't listen to shall I say voice for want of a better explanation, and take without going to confession, it doesn't have to be your own priest, if you're embarrassed to let him hear what you say, you could go to another location to a minister that doesn't know you, here in England, some go to another town or county in the diocese, or even another diocese if they are embarrassed about what they confess to their own priest,
I have religious OCD. Two of my compulsions are frequent confession and omitting Communion. My priest gave me a schedule for confession so that I can try to not come in more often than that. I've stopped omitting Communion also because I just hate doing that so much. I'm never certain whether I've sinned through the blasphemous thoughts that my OCD fills my head with. I'm not sure if I have a question here, I guess I'm just scared and want to talk with someone, maybe get some advice from others who also have religious OCD and have had to avoid omitting Communion as part of their recovery. I'm not sure if I made the right choice in receiving Communion today. I don't know if I'm just full of shame or pride or whatever and unwilling (or unable) to admit when I've done wrong and therefore should refrain from Communion. I feel so lost, and clouded. I pray constantly for God's light, Mary's guidance, but I don't know if I'm receiving anything from them.
I pray for you my brother/sister, I'm in a really similar spot and feel lost some days, but I just hope that God helps us in our effort of trying to grow in faith. Let's not lose hope. God bless.
To start with I'd say please see your doctor/consultant to try something different for your OCD. There are loads of things they can try, so keep going back until you get better results. It's quite hard to commit a thought crime in Catholicism, as long as you're not *deliberately* dwelling on sinful stuff. You aren't, you have an illness. So whatever you as someone with an MH problem happens to think can't be a mortal sin as long as you aren't gleefully indulging in it. To be in mortal sin you have to be fully in control of the thing you've done, and you're not. If you have gone to Confession as near to Mass time as possible, like, immediately before, that should help too as you'd have less time to commit what you think is Wrongthink before Mass. But if thoughts you have due to your illness are sins at all (unlikely) they would be venial sins as you aren't in control of them. You can still take communion if you've commited a venial sin (not that I think you will have between Confession and Mass anyway.) If you tell your Priest about this issue I imagine he would say to come to Confession as immediately before Mass as you can, as part of your peace of mind. Your schedule for confession could include having it then. Years ago more people would've always confessed before a Mass.
@@wildcard4552 It can be but religious OCD usually goes further than that into wondering whether they've done something wrong all the time or whatever.
Thank you Father. I would like to encourage you to consider changing the thumbnail and title from maybe don't and "State of Sin", to don't and "State of Mortal Sin". I fear someone who doesn't watch the video could come to the wrong conclusion, thinking receiving while not in grace may be a venial sin and/or one must have no venial sins at all to receive. God guide you Father!
No you cannot cone to the eucarist with any sin, as God is pure. That is why we ask for forgiveness of sins at the beginning of the Mass. That is for the venial. The grave need confesión. But i take your point. Can be misleading.
@@antoniomoyal We can still take part in the Mass and Communion if we have venial sin on entry (though better to confess of course) as, as you said yourself, the Mass leads us through repentance etc.
@@ArchetypeGotoh One can definitely come to that conclusion, but even so, I still worry about those who wouldn't, perhaps the scrupulous are particularly vulnerable. Even if it would just be one person that would be bad. Given the important matter of the subject, it is best to be clear.
I love how around the 9 minute mark Fr Gregory threads the needle from “faith without charity(the latter of which you have destroyed by committing mortal sin) is dead faith”, echoing the Epistle of James, and that because your faith(meaning trust or confidence in a belief, in this case trust or confidence in the fullness of the truth of the Catholic Church) is dead, you now begin to speculate; meaning that in a very real way, the state of your soul is altered by mortal sin so as to make it easier to get hung up on speculation about Church teaching, now that you don’t trust them, since your faith(i.e. trust/confidence) is dead faith.
My Grandmother (who is a really devout Catholic) tells me that if I really know, love, and believe in Jesus then I can receive him and yeah I try to go to Confession sometimes I know I need to do it more. Being a man of virtue is hard sometimes but challenges give us opportunity for spiritual growth. I know that if I receive communion in a state of mortal sin then I’m going against Canon Law but also I believe that being able to receive communion and on a more regular basis can give me strength to combat temptations to commit sin
Receiving communion on a regular basis while not in a state of mortal sin will help you combat sin. Going against Canon Law is a sin and knowingly receiving the Eucharist while in a state of mortal sin, is another mortal sin. Please do not receive while in a state of mortal sin. God bless you.
It's a bad idea to receive in a state of (mortal?) sin because sin blocks the grace God wishes to give us, and may even do worse - turn the heart completely away from God. Unworthy Holy Communions offend God and increase His sufferings. If we die unrepentant we may end up in an even worse place for every unworthy Holy Communion we received.
I'm a single mother who returned to the Catholic faith some months ago. I have been to confession so I could receive communion but as my teen isn't baptised along with my unwed staus, I've decided not to take it anymore because it's clearly wrong. There's not really any point in attending mass either.
Hey, I want to ask you as softly as I can, why is it clearly wrong? To me, you being unwed isn't sinful. You're taking the responsibility God has given you. Your teen being vs not being baptized, while it would be better if they were, isn't something that is a state of mortal sin for you. I don't see why you shouldn't receive. With that, it is absolutely for your greatest good to go to Mass. To see Jesus, adore Him, hear His word, and to taste (literally) eternal life. From your comment, I don't see a state of mortal sin (assuming by single mom you mean continent) and so I really encourage you in your journey! God has changed my life through the Mass and I know that He will change yours too and bring you so intimately close to His heart. Jesus longs to see you and to dwell within you. Hopefully you see this and are encouraged. God Bless!
I love when Corinthians is brought up in this topic, without the context. What about reading 2 sentences before and after that? Paul is precisely talking about the evil habit of excluding the poor from the communion. It was not intended for this usage what we see today, rather bashing the greedy rich ones who treat their poor brothers and sisters not according to Christ teaching.
The context of why St. Paul must exhort the people of Corinth about partaking of the Eucharist worthily is important, but his statement is broader and authoritative. He appeals to the very institution of the Eucharist to emphasize that this is no mere meal and that care ought to be taken to examine ourselves, including but not limited to the manners by which we participate in this heavenly meal (which seems to moreso be the issue he is directly addressing, as you mention rightly).
@@keithmokry8066 back then - clearly from the context of the letter - the Eucharist was not a sacramental communion yet, really it was about eating together. Do we have evidence people were excluded from the eating, lets say by their marriage status or so? This passage is not a basis for today's case simply ( I am not attacking church teaching, but fed up with recontextualized misconceptions from scripture)
I am a lutheran becoming catholic, and I have been abstaining from communion, receiving a blessing with my arms crossed instead. It amazes me how I am the only one in the whole congregation to do this, since I think it is what anyone who is in a state of sin would have to do. Are all the people around me free from sin? Half of the women aren't even dressed modestly (open-back dresses, clingy tight thin dresses, etc..) and have their heads uncovered. Is not that itself a sin to go into a church scantily clad?
Same here! Lutheran to Catholic too. Glad to hear you're taking it so seriously. I'm not confirmed yet and I'm CRAVING that holy Eucharist. I can't imagine people don't see this thing as so holy and important. It's actually one of the many reasons I'm loving Catholicism, so much reverence. In my experience, Protestantism generally seems to treat it all as so much more mundane, when it's really the light of life itself and deserves all the passion and humility and reverence we have.
It varies by location. Where I live, there are always many people who go up with arms crossed for the blessing rather than receive communion. It's encouraging to see (because it shows that they actually understand what communion is and are applying that knowledge to their circumstances, whatever those may be). As for immodest dress, that is pretty normal many places currently (unfortunately). That one may take some gradual work given wider cultural reasons. As to heads being uncovered, that's actually technically allowed. It didn't use to be, but currently is. Some women still choose to wear headcoverings, but it can be intimidating because so many other women don't, and the women who want to cover their hair are sometimes concerned about either being confronted and criticized for it, or just secretly whispered about and thought to be 'holier than thou' for it.
@@85set05 Do you mind if I ask a quick question? Honestly. In your head, how does that "lolololololololoilololololololol" sound? Are you saying to yourself: "ell oh ell oh ell oh ell oh ell oh ell oh ell oh... (etc)" or "lahwl lahwl lahwl lahwl lahwl lahwl lahwl... (etc)" or "loe loe loe loe loe loe loe loe loe... (etc)" or Are you trying to suggest that you are physically and audibly laughing for a prolonged period of time, and the audible laughter to people near you lasts as long as it takes you to type "lolololololololoilololololololol"? Sorry, I've just always wondered. I see this extended stretching out of the 'lol' ('laughing out loud') acronym around the internet, and honestly all it makes me think of is the sound of yodelling. But I'm pretty sure you're not trying to make people think of the sound of yodelling.
Selfish request for more content here: could you do an entire episode on the impact that the practical order has on the speculative order? And how we can discern this in ourselves and, if circumstances require it, in others without succumbing to ad hominem attacks? I am often way too prone to consider all hangups people have with the faith as purely intellectual problems, and I overlook the other aspect which seems to require prayer and fasting more than argument.
Thank you Fr. I have a question: Can you be in state of mortal sin without knowing? If so, what happens if you approach to receive the Eucharist without knowing you’re in mortal sin? Maybe a dumb question, but I’m curious. Thanks!
NO, YOU CANNOT. For it to be a mortal sin, it must be 1, a grave matter (sorry though, I am incapable of giving a full explanation of what that means) 2, you must have FULL KNOWLAGE, and 3, FULL CONSENT. You cannot commit a mortal sin, if you don't know what you're doing would be a mortal sin.
@@honorwebb7593 Not always. The CCC differentiates between invincible (you couldn't have been reasonably expected to know) and vincible (blameworthy) ignorance. While human laws don't make that distinction, i.e. the principle: ignorance of the law is no excuse, divine law does. Having said that, it should be obvious to everyone that stuff like contraception, fornication, viewing pornography, serious theft, wilful drunkenness, drug abuse etc involves grave immoral matter. AS well, the deliberate rejection of ANY ONE of the church's teaching on faith and morals, destroys the theological virtue of faith in us and thus hope and charity too, making us ineligible to receive communion.
The short and quick definition of mortal sin that I used to give to my younger siblings was: If you knew it was wrong but did it anyway, it may be mortal. If you knew it was wrong and did it anyway because you could just go to confession later on than it was mortal (the sin of presumption).
@@rtyria Regardless, it would have to involve grave matter. Of course, even deliberate venial sins can't be forgiven unless there is sorrow (perfect or imperfect) for them and a firm purpose of amendment. The sin of "presumption" (one of the six sins against the Holy Spirit) makes forgiveness impossible because it assumes God will forgive and save us without any true contrition on our part. Like the unrepentant CINO politicians that go to communion and scandalously promote abortion.
There are many Catholics who live by their consciences and not always by the rules. Contraception is a good example among several. Perhaps they do not have "full knowledge" and the term mortal sin does not apply in such a case. I am in a similar situation and am refraining from Communion. I have spoken with several priests over the years with mixed reactions. I hate to think I will spend the rest of my life like this.
Can a layperson give out communion given hands aren't consecrated and touch the tabernacle? 🤔I got upset when seen altar server give out communion at mass today and then open the tabernacle afterwards. 😣Are they allowed to do that as OT refers to only high priest allowed to go into Holy of Holies If he did anything wrong he was punished greatly. Plus read somewhere altar server can only hand out Body and Blood of Christ in an emergency which it wasn't.
Only a Priest is to give Communion, as he is the only one whose hands are consecrated. If you can, kindly explain this to your priest and if he does not think it's a problem I would go to a different Catholic Church that respects the Body and Blood of Jesus.
Because you take part in the penitential act at the beginning of mass which the priest gives blessing of all venial sin so you can receive in a clean state but it does not clean you of mortal sin. Mortal sin must be confessed before receiving. At mass everyone says "I confess, to almighty God, and to you my brothers and sister's that I have gravely sinned...." It's a small confession for venial sins. Take part in that every Sunday and you are well prepared to approach the sacrament of eucharist
@@amexicanladyonthesoutherncross are the not supposed to? I don’t understand the problem? You don’t know the state of someone’s soul. Only God knows that. Is there an amount of people that are supposed to sit out?
@@r8chemullet618 When I was living in Mexico, the sacrament of reconciliation was always available in each mass; still, only around half of the mass attendees received communion. Here in Australia, the sacrament of reconciliation is very limited only 2 hours per week of reconciliation and still, everyone received communion in every single mass that I attended. This is my point. Is it cultural, that Mexicans are more puritans? I do not judge only ask?
@@amexicanladyonthesoutherncross well that, I have no ability to answer bc I have no idea. Maybe someone who’s worked in both areas would know how to better answer.
Thank you so much for this! But I can't help thinking, if we're bound to receive the eucharist only once a year, doesn't that also kind of invite the danger of trivializing it in the sense of "its not really that important most of the time"? Receiving Jesus unworthily and accepting that you're going to be unworthy most of the time sounds like two unhealthy extremes to me...
The thing is I’m a sinner. I will always be a sinner. My only hope is the blood 🩸 of Jesus Christ on the cross. I should never receive communion, ever. So, skip it! It’s not for me. Because I am a sinner. I don’t deserve communion. I didn’t deserve to be baptized either.
That's not for you to decide. That's a good priest decision. Just go to confession often enough for the good priest to notice you have no more serious sins to hide, and then accept obediently his indication to receive. When that time comes, just surrender your self judgement, because if any second thought comes between you and the Most Holy, then those thoughts will surely be the devil playing schemes holding you back.
Usually once a month or every two months, I fall in a common habit among males; masturbation. I’ve been told that this can be a mortal sin, but not always. The way I look at my own circumstances, there’s no lust involved in the act because I’m not fantasizing about anything, and I’m not using pornography of any kind; for me, it’s equal to a sneeze. It’s something I definitely try to avoid doing, but after 4 to 6 weeks of holding off, it happens. I confess this sin as soon as I’m able to get to the Confessional, but if I’m unable to get there before Mass, I usually receive the Eucharist. There have been times when I’ve chosen not to receive, because I didn’t want to “heap condemnation on myself; but after talking with one Priest, he told me that I was choosing not to receive at the exact moment I needed to receive the most. What should I do?
Having been in a similar position I would refrain from taking the Eucharist until after a confession. It is a mortal sin after all if chosen wilfully. I made a habit of spending a small amount of time everyday to researching things to help me stop and over a couple of months of research and implementation got myself to a much better place. (It your issue is masturbation maybe wearing multiple underpants when you go to bed, haha) I'm still not perfect as I still deal with temptations and bad thoughts from time to time but I personally have found not going to communion helps me to remind/invigorate myself to put in a little research time in everyday. Just my 2 cents.
Masturbation is "intrinsically evil" according to the Catholic church, it is thus of Grave matter. It is not always mortal as it needs to be grave (1) but also conscious (2) and with free-will (3); however, it is always grave and put you always outside the state of grace. Therefore, even if it does not qualify for the second and/or third condition of a mortal sin, given the fact that it always qualify to the first, you cannot get the eucharist without committing a sacrilege with is of grave matter (and can thus be mortal if it also qualify for the second and/or third). So you should not get the Eucharist before confession and should confess as soon as possible if you commit that evil and extremely grave sin.
Yes, to my knowledge there isn’t a particular protocol, you can go to confession like usual and include receiving the Eucharist in a state of mortal sin while listing your sins. The priest may ask about it and provide additional counsel specifically for that sin, but it is forgivable nonetheless. Just refrain from receiving Holy Communion until then. Pax Christi! :)
@@Daniel_Frise I have seen people at church take holy communion but I have never seen most in the confession booth. Unfortunately, my mother is one of them.
in fatima, communion is distributed by priests wearing gloves. no kneeling, no genuflection. no kneeling at a consecration. obviously the hierarchs must be fine with it, but Latin Mass, no way.
Pancreatitis is a classic medical condition were you must not eat. The inflammation of the organ that produces digestive enzymes means that if it is stimulated by food it will produce the digestive enzymes and start to digest itself.
I would find it very discouraging to preach Catholic doctrine that the Pope doesn’t seem to care about. Biden and Pelosi get a papal pass. Why shouldn’t you?
I have a question. What about when someone knows that the church deems something as a mortal sin, but the individual doesn't have full knowledge of this sin other than the church says so. What if their hearts have not experience conviction and soften towards the knowledge and wisdom of what they do as wrong. Is it then a mortal sin? I'm thinking mostly sins of marriage covenant either remarried, cohabitating, homosexual, or even contraception within the marriage. Is it a mortal sin if they don't know what they do so to speak? I always find myself going in circles with this one.
Should you advise someone who almost never goes to church not to take communion, as they do take it on the rare occasion they do attend mass. I don’t know if I should say something??
Are you on intimate enough terms with this person that you can talk about faith and morals in general? If so, perhaps the subject of worthy reception can come up without you challenging him/her directly. If you are not on such terms, then I suggest you pray and lead by example alone.
I was baptized as a baby, raised Catholic and attended Sunday School. At about 12-13 y.o., unfortunately our family stopped attending Catholic Mass. (I wish we didn’t). It was my parent’s decision, not mine. Many decades have gone by and I have attended many churches at different times in my life - some Catholic and some not. I am 61 now living in Japan for over 12 years and just discovered a local Catholic Church that provides Mass in English 2x/month. I never remember having my Confirmation, nor my First Communion. Since I never went to confession as a child or youth, I am not in a state of Grace. So, I can not participate in Holy Communion yet. I feel I need to learn all the sins first, determine which ones I have done, then have my confession and be Confirmed before receiving Holy Communion. Am I correct on my understanding of what’s required before receiving Holy Communion? Otherwise, I’ve started reading the Bible and praying regularly.
@@AndyYoung789 Yes, I know and understand. One problem, is I’m currently living in the countryside of southern Japan. Both priests at my church are well into their 80s. Will be 86 or older soon. One does not hear very well at all - is practically deaf, nor speaks comprehensible English - while the other recently informed me he can not think nor communicate much beyond reading a script. Neither provide confession perhaps partly because the main church has been closed due to risk of collapsing in the event of an earthquake. Consequently, I do not feel comfortable confessing to either of them. So, I’m planning on eventually attending confession and preparing for my Confirmation once I move to the Philippines 🇵🇭.
Not sure what you mean by "eventually." At some point "tomorrow" never comes. You're 61 and you've been lackadaisical for at least the last 12 years by choosing to live where you knew priests offering sacraments would be difficult or impossible to obtain. I wouldn't advise playing Russian Roulette with your soul. While it will take time to relocate - especially at 61 - I would start making an effort as soon as possible. @@ShikokuFoodForest
@@AndyYoung789 What I mean by eventually is once I sell my house here in Japan, make final arrangements to relocate, actually move, find a place to live, find a church, etc. - all this takes time and effort. It sure won’t happen next week. It will take months. Sure, if I could just snap my fingers and it would happen instantly fine, but I unfortunately don’t have that power.
@@AndyYoung789 Thanks for your apparent concern and advice. Believe me, I’m working on my plan daily. I’ve been working independently as fast as I can on completing home renovations over the past year which were necessary for getting my house on the market. I’m 95% finished now. I have a plan in place which I regularly fine tune as I make progress towards my goal. Tomorrow will come. My goal is to move before my 62nd birthday or as soon as possible.
I have heard from Priests that we can receive the communion if we reconcile and will make the confession in the nearest future... What are your thoughts on this?
Good question as i got upset when seen altar server give out communion at mass tonight and then open the tabernacle afterwards. Are they allowed to do that as OT refers to only high priest allowed to go into Holy of Holies. If he did anything wrong he was punished greatly. Plus read somewhere altar server can only hand out Body and Blood of Christ in an emergency which it wasn't.
That's not what the Catholic Church teaches. The Catholic Church teaches that only Jesus can forgive sins. When we go to confession, it's entering into the method He established for forgiveness of sins at John 20:23, in which He breathed on the apostles and told them that the sins they forgave would be forgiven, and the sins they retained would be retained. The Hail Mary prayers assigned have nothing to do with the forgiveness, but rather, are a call for minor penance, something the priest prescribes as a way for us to turn back to Christ after He forgave us.
The thumbnail shows communion in the hand which is not good, is offensive to God, and is treacherous for faith in the real presence of Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist. This photograph should be changed immediately.
Please change the thumbnail.. it's very misleading... Especially the "maybe" as it implies its ok to receive Holy Communion in a state of mortal sin. Love this channel, but clickbait is not the way to go!
I usually in a state of moral sin. I usually go to confession. Sometimes a few hours or days after confession I commit a mortal sin. So I'm confused. Does that mean I can't receive communion ever? I have confession Saturday morning, next mass is Saturday night. Sometimes its too late, I've already committed a mortal sin. If you or someone else give me advice?
Whatever this sin is, stop doing it. Get any help you need to stop it. I used to identify as bisexual if it's anything like that. Having an involuntary thought isn't a sin (or at least, not a mortal one) but *indulging* the thought, enjoying or acting on it, is. You can avoid any near occasions of sin (throw out things and don't visit places that lead to you being at higher risk of sinning) etc. Go to Confession as near to Mass time as you can, so Maybe on the evening before Mass time? If you don't intend to stop the sin then you're not fully participating in Confession anyway- you're only forgiven if you resolve not to do it again. If you were honest with the Priest about that, they shouldn't absolve you. If you *are* trying to stop but whatever it is is a compulsion you really find hard to stop, that isn't necessarily a mortal sin either as you're not 100% in control of it. But yes, try and stop doing the thing. You can do it by God's grace- pray etc and ask others to pray for you. Maybe have someone you can call if you are experiencing temptation. You could also put filters or accountability software on your devices if it's anything like porn etc. There are a lot of videos on TH-cam with tips on how to overcome various habitual sins. It sounds like you have a compulsion- might be worth seeking therapy to help with it too. A Catholic/Christian therapist would understand.
@@ConstantiaVerted Last time confession close to evening mass was not available. I'm a new convert. I will have to ask if it's available again. This will mean I can have it only once a week. If I'm free, I like to go to mass a few times a week. It's getting better since I started to go to confession. I don't sin as much as before. Only a few people were sinless in history. I don't know if it's possible not to commit any mortal sin. Thank you for responding.
@@gto2111 I'm a convert too (in instruction) so I understand. A priest told me most people don't have mortal sins to confess at confession when they go. I was surprised at that too, but I suppose once people get over the habit of it it just doesn't regularly occur to them.
@@ConstantiaVerted I suspect most people don't know about some mortal sin. And don't know that certain activities are sins. My list of sins is shorter. I can see improvement over time. To reply to your previous message. I don't struggle with porn. Confession helped me to stop watching porn. Although I was not an addict. It's been a long time since the last time I watched porn. But I do struggle with lust. Sometimes I think if I was married, it would be easier. Once I heard a sermon tho, the priest said marriage does not cure lust that's why some people commit adultery. I don't think this will apply to me, as I know I won't commit adultery. Regarding asking people to pray for me. Maybe I can ask you to do me a favour to remember me in your prayers. 🙂
This is exactly what Catholics need to hear. Now how do we get pastors to regularly preach this? I often wonder if pastors share in the guilt of those who receive unworthy by their silence. That passage of Corinthians is never read at the new mass.
Not only the people receiving but also the priest giving the whole Eucharist,, knowing the person is in the state of mortal sin he also condemns himself and put his soul in really serious jeopardy,, we need more manly men holy priestthat speak the truth,, it’s really important to pray for our priest blessed mother Mary pray for us
Ask a priest for specific situations. If it's a lesser(venial) sin, then it can be forgiven by the process of attending Mass and the general confession during it. But if it breaks the big ones, like the Decalogue for instance, it's a mortal sin and it needs to be confessed before receiving the Eucharist
Your conscience. If you know you are doing something really bad and aren’t trying to stop, you chose to turn away from God’s love in little or big ways.
@@Thomasfboyle I agree, it's a person's conscience that determines what is moral or not. Or sinful or not. Morality is subjective, not objective. (Unless someone is a psychopath.) Since the dawn of man we have had subjective morality. At one time it was objectively moral to own people as property. At one time it was objectively moral to stone a homosexual to death. So I am very grateful that we are always in search of moral progress.
It's okay to receive the eucharist without being in the state of grace, so long as you go to confession soon after. Many priests have said this also the preist from the book "how to save a thousand souls" said the same.
@@cameraguy6297 "For anyone who eats and drinks the body of the Lord unworthily eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep " 1 Corinthians 11:30
@@HIMYMTR Look at the number of people going to recieve communion vs the number of people in the line to confession. I don't think priests are hearing 1000+ confessions a week, so how is the whole parish receiving the Eucharist. Also, those people today who are receiving are not dying. There was probably some disease that was pulling those people to death to what St. Paul is referring to.
Mortal sin is the bad idea. There's no theological basis for it and no scriptural evidence. I love this channel, but sometimes the evangelicals get things right lol. 1 John 1:8 is all that is needed here. Sorry. Good luck getting out of your state of sin before His return and our glorification
Does Jesus not describe categories of sin? Best approach is to avoid all sins through trust in God, but there’s definitely some things worse than others…even by Jesus’s explicit mention
As a Lutheran turning to Catholicism, I know I'm a dirty sinner. I'm terrible. I know I don't deserve to touch Jesus' holy body in my current state, even though I *really* want to. I crave it. It tears me up specifically because I know I'm still clinging onto my sin. (Lust specifically.) I need to better myself and truly put in the work for my faith, to show our most holy God I mean it. I think this "mortal sin" stuff is a worthy pursuit to help us sort ourselves out. It makes us better and gives Jesus' holy body the reverence it deserves. We need grace and that process of sanctification to ever become anything close to Jesus. I pray the Holy Spirit keeps working in me. I ask the saints pray for me as well. Ultimately, if we're willing to compromise on one thing, what does that mean for other areas in our lives? You don't become Christian because it's easy. It's work and it's hard. It's a full-body dedication. My entire being. I don't want excuses. I just want to become better.
Well...not so fast :) As a former protestant, I think it's fair to say (although a simplification), that mortal sin is simply what protestants think of as sin. Venial sins are those sins we are not fully aware of, done out of habit (half-conscious). So mortal sin as a concept makes a lot of sense. In a way, the idea of "venial sins" is an "innovation". John 1.8 says that we must confess our sins, which we do in the sacrament of confession. Protestants do for some reason interpret this verse as the confession is private, but I don't think that's a "more biblical" view. So, in the confession, I confess to another human being, who acts in "persona Christi" as we say. The whole thing seems pretty biblical and sensical to me. And I confess to you: It helps me from committing certain acts since I don't want to forgo the Eucharist.
I can be brash but I do not intend to offend anyone. I only wish for everyone to get their theology correct, otherwise we bastardize the Gospel. 1 John 5:16 mentions a "sin unto death". This is commonly interpreted by many theologians as constant, willful and unrepentant sin, as there is no further explanation of this "sin unto death" in the Bible. This ties in to earlier in John, and the whole book is basically about the theology of sin and salvation and in 1 John 2:19 it reads "They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us." This is the whole "if they were really Christian they wouldn't have left, did this, did that" argument in Christendom which also ties in to the whole Calvinism and Arminianism debate, or, can you lose your salvation? Which all can be answered by solid scriptural theology. I recommend Dr. Michael Heiser to everyone.
I'm tired of God. I'm tired of Jesus. I'm tired of decades of a mental illness he let me have, and a decade of unanswered prayers. I'm tired of the hope he let me have which turned into more tragedy. I'm tired of worrying about what he thinks, I'm tired of my entire one-sided relationship with him. I'm tired of the living hell he put me in, his false promises and the gall of him to judge me and throw me into hell when for 30 years he ruined my life.
Pray for me brothers and sisters, it’s been too long since I received Communion. I border on despair, but thank God a glimmer of hope rests as a perpetual flame in my heart.
Remarried without church approval?
Go to confession and receive!
Same. I'm hoping to repent soon.
@@msgoody2shoes959 That's a massive assumption. There are so many things it could be, but why speculate?
@@anglaismoyen I wasn't betting... clearly asking. I'd like to give you hope of reconciliation.
I fall into mortal sin weekly thanks to the internet and modern technology. Sometimes I wish I could live like a monk.
"We do not go to Holy Communion because we are good; we go to become good". ~ Saint John Bosco
"The Eucharist is not a prize for the perfect, but medicine for sinners". ~ Pope Francis
"Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy". ~ Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
"The more Eucharist we receive, the more we will become like Jesus, so that on earth we will have a foretaste of heaven". ~ Blessed Carlo Acutis
"The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host." ~ Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Take this, ALL OF YOU, AND EAT OF IT, for this is my Body, which will be given up for you. ~ Holy Mass
We are all Barabbas'. Jesus became a substitute for us. Jesus goes off to the Cross in your place. He gets what you deserve; you get what he deserves. It is the greatest exchange in all of history. Jesus gives up his life so that you can live.
Thank you Father Pine. May the Lord continue to bless you and keep you amen.
Unfortunately, we have priests who say don't worry you can receive communion even in sin and then go to Confession. Problem is that some of us don't know what is mortal vs venial sin. So if we receive Eucharist in mortal sin it can as scripture says cause harm. Plus we are crucifying Jesus again.
Jesus was crucified more than 2000 years ago, silly. Do you think he's continually being crucified? I thought heaven was a place of happiness, not horrible pain and despair.
POPE BENEDICT XVI: “When attending Mass and receiving the Eucharist, Catholic must be filled with gratitude for God’s great gifts. Despite the fact that we have nothing to give in return and we are full of faults, Jesus invites us to his table and wants to be with us.”
ST. JOHN BAPTISTE DE LA SALLE: “Some say that they are not worthy to take communion often. We take communion not because we are holy, but in order to become so... Union with Jesus in communion makes us able to share in his holiness.”
I know in my heart when I need to go to confession, it's like something saying don't take you need the sacrament of confession first, so till I go to the booth I don't take, unfortunately a lot don't listen to shall I say voice for want of a better explanation, and take without going to confession, it doesn't have to be your own priest, if you're embarrassed to let him hear what you say, you could go to another location to a minister that doesn't know you, here in England, some go to another town or county in the diocese, or even another diocese if they are embarrassed about what they confess to their own priest,
I have religious OCD. Two of my compulsions are frequent confession and omitting Communion. My priest gave me a schedule for confession so that I can try to not come in more often than that. I've stopped omitting Communion also because I just hate doing that so much. I'm never certain whether I've sinned through the blasphemous thoughts that my OCD fills my head with. I'm not sure if I have a question here, I guess I'm just scared and want to talk with someone, maybe get some advice from others who also have religious OCD and have had to avoid omitting Communion as part of their recovery. I'm not sure if I made the right choice in receiving Communion today. I don't know if I'm just full of shame or pride or whatever and unwilling (or unable) to admit when I've done wrong and therefore should refrain from Communion. I feel so lost, and clouded. I pray constantly for God's light, Mary's guidance, but I don't know if I'm receiving anything from them.
I have never heard of religious OCD. What is that?
@@rtyria scrupulosity is a religious ocd
I pray for you my brother/sister, I'm in a really similar spot and feel lost some days, but I just hope that God helps us in our effort of trying to grow in faith. Let's not lose hope. God bless.
To start with I'd say please see your doctor/consultant to try something different for your OCD. There are loads of things they can try, so keep going back until you get better results. It's quite hard to commit a thought crime in Catholicism, as long as you're not *deliberately* dwelling on sinful stuff. You aren't, you have an illness. So whatever you as someone with an MH problem happens to think can't be a mortal sin as long as you aren't gleefully indulging in it. To be in mortal sin you have to be fully in control of the thing you've done, and you're not. If you have gone to Confession as near to Mass time as possible, like, immediately before, that should help too as you'd have less time to commit what you think is Wrongthink before Mass. But if thoughts you have due to your illness are sins at all (unlikely) they would be venial sins as you aren't in control of them. You can still take communion if you've commited a venial sin (not that I think you will have between Confession and Mass anyway.) If you tell your Priest about this issue I imagine he would say to come to Confession as immediately before Mass as you can, as part of your peace of mind. Your schedule for confession could include having it then. Years ago more people would've always confessed before a Mass.
@@wildcard4552 It can be but religious OCD usually goes further than that into wondering whether they've done something wrong all the time or whatever.
This was so beautifully clear, Fr Gregory - thank you for answering many questions that have plagued me for ages. 🙏
Thank you Father. I would like to encourage you to consider changing the thumbnail and title from maybe don't and "State of Sin", to don't and "State of Mortal Sin". I fear someone who doesn't watch the video could come to the wrong conclusion, thinking receiving while not in grace may be a venial sin and/or one must have no venial sins at all to receive. God guide you Father!
Agree 100%👆⬆️👆⬆️
No you cannot cone to the eucarist with any sin, as God is pure. That is why we ask for forgiveness of sins at the beginning of the Mass. That is for the venial. The grave need confesión.
But i take your point. Can be misleading.
@@antoniomoyal We can still take part in the Mass and Communion if we have venial sin on entry (though better to confess of course) as, as you said yourself, the Mass leads us through repentance etc.
Don’t mean to be rude, but “state of sin” MEANS “mortal sin”. No one uses the phrase to refer to venial sins.
@@ArchetypeGotoh One can definitely come to that conclusion, but even so, I still worry about those who wouldn't, perhaps the scrupulous are particularly vulnerable. Even if it would just be one person that would be bad. Given the important matter of the subject, it is best to be clear.
Thank you, Father. This video was uploaded at the perfect time for me. Amazing how that works. God is so good.
I love how around the 9 minute mark Fr Gregory threads the needle from “faith without charity(the latter of which you have destroyed by committing mortal sin) is dead faith”, echoing the Epistle of James, and that because your faith(meaning trust or confidence in a belief, in this case trust or confidence in the fullness of the truth of the Catholic Church) is dead, you now begin to speculate; meaning that in a very real way, the state of your soul is altered by mortal sin so as to make it easier to get hung up on speculation about Church teaching, now that you don’t trust them, since your faith(i.e. trust/confidence) is dead faith.
My Grandmother (who is a really devout Catholic) tells me that if I really know, love, and believe in Jesus then I can receive him and yeah I try to go to Confession sometimes I know I need to do it more. Being a man of virtue is hard sometimes but challenges give us opportunity for spiritual growth. I know that if I receive communion in a state of mortal sin then I’m going against Canon Law but also I believe that being able to receive communion and on a more regular basis can give me strength to combat temptations to commit sin
Receiving communion on a regular basis while not in a state of mortal sin will help you combat sin. Going against Canon Law is a sin and knowingly receiving the Eucharist while in a state of mortal sin, is another mortal sin. Please do not receive while in a state of mortal sin. God bless you.
It's a bad idea to receive in a state of (mortal?) sin because sin blocks the grace God wishes to give us, and may even do worse - turn the heart completely away from God. Unworthy Holy Communions offend God and increase His sufferings. If we die unrepentant we may end up in an even worse place for every unworthy Holy Communion we received.
Thank you for this Eucharist Teaching.
Very thoughtfully laid out, thanks!
I'm a single mother who returned to the Catholic faith some months ago. I have been to confession so I could receive communion but as my teen isn't baptised along with my unwed staus, I've decided not to take it anymore because it's clearly wrong. There's not really any point in attending mass either.
Hey, I want to ask you as softly as I can, why is it clearly wrong? To me, you being unwed isn't sinful. You're taking the responsibility God has given you. Your teen being vs not being baptized, while it would be better if they were, isn't something that is a state of mortal sin for you. I don't see why you shouldn't receive. With that, it is absolutely for your greatest good to go to Mass. To see Jesus, adore Him, hear His word, and to taste (literally) eternal life. From your comment, I don't see a state of mortal sin (assuming by single mom you mean continent) and so I really encourage you in your journey! God has changed my life through the Mass and I know that He will change yours too and bring you so intimately close to His heart. Jesus longs to see you and to dwell within you. Hopefully you see this and are encouraged. God Bless!
I love when Corinthians is brought up in this topic, without the context. What about reading 2 sentences before and after that?
Paul is precisely talking about the evil habit of excluding the poor from the communion. It was not intended for this usage what we see today, rather bashing the greedy rich ones who treat their poor brothers and sisters not according to Christ teaching.
The context of why St. Paul must exhort the people of Corinth about partaking of the Eucharist worthily is important, but his statement is broader and authoritative. He appeals to the very institution of the Eucharist to emphasize that this is no mere meal and that care ought to be taken to examine ourselves, including but not limited to the manners by which we participate in this heavenly meal (which seems to moreso be the issue he is directly addressing, as you mention rightly).
@@keithmokry8066 back then - clearly from the context of the letter - the Eucharist was not a sacramental communion yet, really it was about eating together.
Do we have evidence people were excluded from the eating, lets say by their marriage status or so?
This passage is not a basis for today's case simply ( I am not attacking church teaching, but fed up with recontextualized misconceptions from scripture)
I am a lutheran becoming catholic, and I have been abstaining from communion, receiving a blessing with my arms crossed instead. It amazes me how I am the only one in the whole congregation to do this, since I think it is what anyone who is in a state of sin would have to do. Are all the people around me free from sin? Half of the women aren't even dressed modestly (open-back dresses, clingy tight thin dresses, etc..) and have their heads uncovered. Is not that itself a sin to go into a church scantily clad?
Sorry about your parish, I make sure to alway cross myself and not receive Communion when I’m in moral sin.
Same here! Lutheran to Catholic too. Glad to hear you're taking it so seriously. I'm not confirmed yet and I'm CRAVING that holy Eucharist. I can't imagine people don't see this thing as so holy and important. It's actually one of the many reasons I'm loving Catholicism, so much reverence. In my experience, Protestantism generally seems to treat it all as so much more mundane, when it's really the light of life itself and deserves all the passion and humility and reverence we have.
It varies by location. Where I live, there are always many people who go up with arms crossed for the blessing rather than receive communion. It's encouraging to see (because it shows that they actually understand what communion is and are applying that knowledge to their circumstances, whatever those may be). As for immodest dress, that is pretty normal many places currently (unfortunately). That one may take some gradual work given wider cultural reasons. As to heads being uncovered, that's actually technically allowed. It didn't use to be, but currently is. Some women still choose to wear headcoverings, but it can be intimidating because so many other women don't, and the women who want to cover their hair are sometimes concerned about either being confronted and criticized for it, or just secretly whispered about and thought to be 'holier than thou' for it.
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@@85set05 Do you mind if I ask a quick question? Honestly. In your head, how does that "lolololololololoilololololololol" sound?
Are you saying to yourself:
"ell oh ell oh ell oh ell oh ell oh ell oh ell oh... (etc)"
or
"lahwl lahwl lahwl lahwl lahwl lahwl lahwl... (etc)"
or
"loe loe loe loe loe loe loe loe loe... (etc)"
or
Are you trying to suggest that you are physically and audibly laughing for a prolonged period of time, and the audible laughter to people near you lasts as long as it takes you to type "lolololololololoilololololololol"?
Sorry, I've just always wondered. I see this extended stretching out of the 'lol' ('laughing out loud') acronym around the internet, and honestly all it makes me think of is the sound of yodelling. But I'm pretty sure you're not trying to make people think of the sound of yodelling.
at last
someone is talking about this
Selfish request for more content here: could you do an entire episode on the impact that the practical order has on the speculative order? And how we can discern this in ourselves and, if circumstances require it, in others without succumbing to ad hominem attacks? I am often way too prone to consider all hangups people have with the faith as purely intellectual problems, and I overlook the other aspect which seems to require prayer and fasting more than argument.
Great vid, thanks.
According to Cardinal McElroy, it’s fine to receive the Eucharist in a state of sin.
This is like a spiritual appropriation of the adage "feed a cold, starve a fever".
Thank you Fr. I have a question: Can you be in state of mortal sin without knowing? If so, what happens if you approach to receive the Eucharist without knowing you’re in mortal sin?
Maybe a dumb question, but I’m curious.
Thanks!
NO, YOU CANNOT. For it to be a mortal sin, it must be 1, a grave matter (sorry though, I am incapable of giving a full explanation of what that means) 2, you must have FULL KNOWLAGE, and 3, FULL CONSENT. You cannot commit a mortal sin, if you don't know what you're doing would be a mortal sin.
@@honorwebb7593 Not always. The CCC differentiates between invincible (you couldn't have been reasonably expected to know) and vincible (blameworthy) ignorance. While human laws don't make that distinction, i.e. the principle: ignorance of the law is no excuse, divine law does. Having said that, it should be obvious to everyone that stuff like contraception, fornication, viewing pornography, serious theft, wilful drunkenness, drug abuse etc involves grave immoral matter. AS well, the deliberate rejection of ANY ONE of the church's teaching on faith and morals, destroys the theological virtue of faith in us and thus hope and charity too, making us ineligible to receive communion.
The short and quick definition of mortal sin that I used to give to my younger siblings was: If you knew it was wrong but did it anyway, it may be mortal. If you knew it was wrong and did it anyway because you could just go to confession later on than it was mortal (the sin of presumption).
Huh, very good, thanks guys! 😅 Better job explaining than I did
@@rtyria Regardless, it would have to involve grave matter. Of course, even deliberate venial sins can't be forgiven unless there is sorrow (perfect or imperfect) for them and a firm purpose of amendment. The sin of "presumption" (one of the six sins against the Holy Spirit) makes forgiveness impossible because it assumes God will forgive and save us without any true contrition on our part. Like the unrepentant CINO politicians that go to communion and scandalously promote abortion.
There are many Catholics who live by their consciences and not always by the rules. Contraception is a good example among several. Perhaps they do not have "full knowledge" and the term mortal sin does not apply in such a case. I am in a similar situation and am refraining from Communion. I have spoken with several priests over the years with mixed reactions. I hate to think I will spend the rest of my life like this.
Can a layperson give out communion given hands aren't consecrated and touch the tabernacle? 🤔I got upset when seen altar server give out communion at mass today and then open the tabernacle afterwards. 😣Are they allowed to do that as OT refers to only high priest allowed to go into Holy of Holies If he did anything wrong he was punished greatly. Plus read somewhere altar server can only hand out Body and Blood of Christ in an emergency which it wasn't.
Only a Priest is to give Communion, as he is the only one whose hands are consecrated. If you can, kindly explain this to your priest and if he does not think it's a problem I would go to a different Catholic Church that respects the Body and Blood of Jesus.
Thank you,
Why does here in Australia everyone in every mass receive communion? I have been wondering this since I arrive to Australia.
Because you take part in the penitential act at the beginning of mass which the priest gives blessing of all venial sin so you can receive in a clean state but it does not clean you of mortal sin. Mortal sin must be confessed before receiving. At mass everyone says "I confess, to almighty God, and to you my brothers and sister's that I have gravely sinned...." It's a small confession for venial sins. Take part in that every Sunday and you are well prepared to approach the sacrament of eucharist
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But always, everyone receives communion.
@@amexicanladyonthesoutherncross are the not supposed to? I don’t understand the problem? You don’t know the state of someone’s soul. Only God knows that. Is there an amount of people that are supposed to sit out?
@@r8chemullet618 When I was living in Mexico, the sacrament of reconciliation was always available in each mass; still, only around half of the mass attendees received communion. Here in Australia, the sacrament of reconciliation is very limited only 2 hours per week of reconciliation and still, everyone received communion in every single mass that I attended. This is my point. Is it cultural, that Mexicans are more puritans? I do not judge only ask?
@@amexicanladyonthesoutherncross well that, I have no ability to answer bc I have no idea. Maybe someone who’s worked in both areas would know how to better answer.
Thank you so much for this! But I can't help thinking, if we're bound to receive the eucharist only once a year, doesn't that also kind of invite the danger of trivializing it in the sense of "its not really that important most of the time"? Receiving Jesus unworthily and accepting that you're going to be unworthy most of the time sounds like two unhealthy extremes to me...
I took Holy Communion while in a state of mortal sin as I did not know that I had to go to confession first. What should I do?
The thing is I’m a sinner. I will always be a sinner. My only hope is the blood 🩸 of Jesus Christ on the cross. I should never receive communion, ever. So, skip it! It’s not for me. Because I am a sinner. I don’t deserve communion.
I didn’t deserve to be baptized either.
That's not for you to decide. That's a good priest decision. Just go to confession often enough for the good priest to notice you have no more serious sins to hide, and then accept obediently his indication to receive. When that time comes, just surrender your self judgement, because if any second thought comes between you and the Most Holy, then those thoughts will surely be the devil playing schemes holding you back.
Usually once a month or every two months, I fall in a common habit among males; masturbation. I’ve been told that this can be a mortal sin, but not always. The way I look at my own circumstances, there’s no lust involved in the act because I’m not fantasizing about anything, and I’m not using pornography of any kind; for me, it’s equal to a sneeze. It’s something I definitely try to avoid doing, but after 4 to 6 weeks of holding off, it happens. I confess this sin as soon as I’m able to get to the Confessional, but if I’m unable to get there before Mass, I usually receive the Eucharist. There have been times when I’ve chosen not to receive, because I didn’t want to “heap condemnation on myself; but after talking with one Priest, he told me that I was choosing not to receive at the exact moment I needed to receive the most. What should I do?
A good place to begin in this case, is for you to research thoroughly and most surely meditate on the best you can find about the act of contrition.
don't forget to pray for the act of contrition to be fully sincere! ask the Lord to send help on this!
Having been in a similar position I would refrain from taking the Eucharist until after a confession. It is a mortal sin after all if chosen wilfully. I made a habit of spending a small amount of time everyday to researching things to help me stop and over a couple of months of research and implementation got myself to a much better place. (It your issue is masturbation maybe wearing multiple underpants when you go to bed, haha) I'm still not perfect as I still deal with temptations and bad thoughts from time to time but I personally have found not going to communion helps me to remind/invigorate myself to put in a little research time in everyday. Just my 2 cents.
Masturbation is "intrinsically evil" according to the Catholic church, it is thus of Grave matter. It is not always mortal as it needs to be grave (1) but also conscious (2) and with free-will (3); however, it is always grave and put you always outside the state of grace. Therefore, even if it does not qualify for the second and/or third condition of a mortal sin, given the fact that it always qualify to the first, you cannot get the eucharist without committing a sacrilege with is of grave matter (and can thus be mortal if it also qualify for the second and/or third).
So you should not get the Eucharist before confession and should confess as soon as possible if you commit that evil and extremely grave sin.
I fighting with a addiction but i go every Sunday tho mass is that bad ?
Can confession for taking the Eucharist under sin be forgiven? Is there a protocol for it?
Yes, it can be forgiven through the sacrament of Confession. You state it as one of your sins.
Yes, to my knowledge there isn’t a particular protocol, you can go to confession like usual and include receiving the Eucharist in a state of mortal sin while listing your sins. The priest may ask about it and provide additional counsel specifically for that sin, but it is forgivable nonetheless. Just refrain from receiving Holy Communion until then. Pax Christi! :)
@@TheVeganVicar Read your Bible! The only unforgivable sin is blaspheming the Holy Spirit!
@@Daniel_Frise I have seen people at church take holy communion but I have never seen most in the confession booth. Unfortunately, my mother is one of them.
@@TheVeganVicar Your clearly an Atheist trolling the religious. Your tv broken?
in fatima, communion is distributed by priests wearing gloves. no kneeling, no genuflection. no kneeling at a consecration.
obviously the hierarchs must be fine with it, but Latin Mass, no way.
If my priest oked me using birth control for health reasons can I receive communion? He says I can and I don't need to confess that
If it's purely for other health reasons and not at all to prevent reproduction with non-procreative sex than yes your priest is right and you're fine
Pancreatitis is a classic medical condition were you must not eat. The inflammation of the organ that produces digestive enzymes means that if it is stimulated by food it will produce the digestive enzymes and start to digest itself.
I would find it very discouraging to preach Catholic doctrine that the Pope doesn’t seem to care about. Biden and Pelosi get a papal pass. Why shouldn’t you?
I have a question. What about when someone knows that the church deems something as a mortal sin, but the individual doesn't have full knowledge of this sin other than the church says so. What if their hearts have not experience conviction and soften towards the knowledge and wisdom of what they do as wrong. Is it then a mortal sin? I'm thinking mostly sins of marriage covenant either remarried, cohabitating, homosexual, or even contraception within the marriage. Is it a mortal sin if they don't know what they do so to speak? I always find myself going in circles with this one.
Should you advise someone who almost never goes to church not to take communion, as they do take it on the rare occasion they do attend mass. I don’t know if I should say something??
Are you on intimate enough terms with this person that you can talk about faith and morals in general? If so, perhaps the subject of worthy reception can come up without you challenging him/her directly. If you are not on such terms, then I suggest you pray and lead by example alone.
Good thumbnail change
I was baptized as a baby, raised Catholic and attended Sunday School. At about 12-13 y.o., unfortunately our family stopped attending Catholic Mass. (I wish we didn’t). It was my parent’s decision, not mine. Many decades have gone by and I have attended many churches at different times in my life - some Catholic and some not. I am 61 now living in Japan for over 12 years and just discovered a local Catholic Church that provides Mass in English 2x/month. I never remember having my Confirmation, nor my First Communion. Since I never went to confession as a child or youth, I am not in a state of Grace. So, I can not participate in Holy Communion yet. I feel I need to learn all the sins first, determine which ones I have done, then have my confession and be Confirmed before receiving Holy Communion. Am I correct on my understanding of what’s required before receiving Holy Communion? Otherwise, I’ve started reading the Bible and praying regularly.
You need to make an appointment with a priest for a general confession.
@@AndyYoung789 Yes, I know and understand. One problem, is I’m currently living in the countryside of southern Japan. Both priests at my church are well into their 80s. Will be 86 or older soon. One does not hear very well at all - is practically deaf, nor speaks comprehensible English - while the other recently informed me he can not think nor communicate much beyond reading a script. Neither provide confession perhaps partly because the main church has been closed due to risk of collapsing in the event of an earthquake. Consequently, I do not feel comfortable confessing to either of them. So, I’m planning on eventually attending confession and preparing for my Confirmation once I move to the Philippines 🇵🇭.
Not sure what you mean by "eventually."
At some point "tomorrow" never comes.
You're 61 and you've been lackadaisical for at least the last 12 years by choosing to live where you knew priests offering sacraments would be difficult or impossible
to obtain. I wouldn't advise playing Russian Roulette with your soul. While it will take time to relocate - especially at 61 - I would start making an effort as soon as possible.
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@@AndyYoung789 What I mean by eventually is once I sell my house here in Japan, make final arrangements to relocate, actually move, find a place to live, find a church, etc. - all this takes time and effort. It sure won’t happen next week. It will take months. Sure, if I could just snap my fingers and it would happen instantly fine, but I unfortunately don’t have that power.
@@AndyYoung789 Thanks for your apparent concern and advice. Believe me, I’m working on my plan daily. I’ve been working independently as fast as I can on completing home renovations over the past year which were necessary for getting my house on the market. I’m 95% finished now. I have a plan in place which I regularly fine tune as I make progress towards my goal. Tomorrow will come. My goal is to move before my 62nd birthday or as soon as possible.
Pints with Aquinas? Where is Matt?
I have heard from Priests that we can receive the communion if we reconcile and will make the confession in the nearest future... What are your thoughts on this?
This is false. The tradition is that if you are guilty of grave matter you should usually refrain from receiving communion until your next confession
What do you mean by sin what’s a moral sin vs a regular sin
Too long.
Everything we think we publish….in a TH-cam video
I'd like to understand what the reasoning behind "state of sin" vs. "state of grace"? Why do Catholics believe in this? Where did it come from?
Related question: is it ok for lay people to touch the tabernacle?
Good question as i got upset when seen altar server give out communion at mass tonight and then open the tabernacle afterwards. Are they allowed to do that as OT refers to only high priest allowed to go into Holy of Holies. If he did anything wrong he was punished greatly. Plus read somewhere altar server can only hand out Body and Blood of Christ in an emergency which it wasn't.
Be careful of spam comments! They probably lead to bad websites.
If catholic priests can forgive sins by having you say “hail Mary’s”
Then why did JESUS have to die that horrible death on the cross?
That's not what the Catholic Church teaches. The Catholic Church teaches that only Jesus can forgive sins. When we go to confession, it's entering into the method He established for forgiveness of sins at John 20:23, in which He breathed on the apostles and told them that the sins they forgave would be forgiven, and the sins they retained would be retained.
The Hail Mary prayers assigned have nothing to do with the forgiveness, but rather, are a call for minor penance, something the priest prescribes as a way for us to turn back to Christ after He forgave us.
The thumbnail shows communion in the hand which is not good, is offensive to God, and is treacherous for faith in the real presence of Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist. This photograph should be changed immediately.
Please change the thumbnail.. it's very misleading... Especially the "maybe" as it implies its ok to receive Holy Communion in a state of mortal sin. Love this channel, but clickbait is not the way to go!
I usually in a state of moral sin. I usually go to confession. Sometimes a few hours or days after confession I commit a mortal sin. So I'm confused. Does that mean I can't receive communion ever? I have confession Saturday morning, next mass is Saturday night. Sometimes its too late, I've already committed a mortal sin. If you or someone else give me advice?
Whatever this sin is, stop doing it. Get any help you need to stop it. I used to identify as bisexual if it's anything like that. Having an involuntary thought isn't a sin (or at least, not a mortal one) but *indulging* the thought, enjoying or acting on it, is. You can avoid any near occasions of sin (throw out things and don't visit places that lead to you being at higher risk of sinning) etc. Go to Confession as near to Mass time as you can, so Maybe on the evening before Mass time? If you don't intend to stop the sin then you're not fully participating in Confession anyway- you're only forgiven if you resolve not to do it again. If you were honest with the Priest about that, they shouldn't absolve you. If you *are* trying to stop but whatever it is is a compulsion you really find hard to stop, that isn't necessarily a mortal sin either as you're not 100% in control of it. But yes, try and stop doing the thing. You can do it by God's grace- pray etc and ask others to pray for you. Maybe have someone you can call if you are experiencing temptation. You could also put filters or accountability software on your devices if it's anything like porn etc. There are a lot of videos on TH-cam with tips on how to overcome various habitual sins. It sounds like you have a compulsion- might be worth seeking therapy to help with it too. A Catholic/Christian therapist would understand.
@@ConstantiaVerted Last time confession close to evening mass was not available. I'm a new convert. I will have to ask if it's available again. This will mean I can have it only once a week. If I'm free, I like to go to mass a few times a week. It's getting better since I started to go to confession. I don't sin as much as before. Only a few people were sinless in history. I don't know if it's possible not to commit any mortal sin. Thank you for responding.
@@gto2111 I'm a convert too (in instruction) so I understand. A priest told me most people don't have mortal sins to confess at confession when they go. I was surprised at that too, but I suppose once people get over the habit of it it just doesn't regularly occur to them.
@@gto2111 If they're married it's probably easier too lol.
@@ConstantiaVerted I suspect most people don't know about some mortal sin. And don't know that certain activities are sins. My list of sins is shorter. I can see improvement over time. To reply to your previous message. I don't struggle with porn. Confession helped me to stop watching porn. Although I was not an addict. It's been a long time since the last time I watched porn. But I do struggle with lust. Sometimes I think if I was married, it would be easier. Once I heard a sermon tho, the priest said marriage does not cure lust that's why some people commit adultery. I don't think this will apply to me, as I know I won't commit adultery. Regarding asking people to pray for me. Maybe I can ask you to do me a favour to remember me in your prayers. 🙂
This is exactly what Catholics need to hear. Now how do we get pastors to regularly preach this? I often wonder if pastors share in the guilt of those who receive unworthy by their silence. That passage of Corinthians is never read at the new mass.
Not only the people receiving but also the priest giving the whole Eucharist,, knowing the person is in the state of mortal sin he also condemns himself and put his soul in really serious jeopardy,, we need more manly men holy priestthat speak the truth,, it’s really important to pray for our priest blessed mother Mary pray for us
I saw the image to this video and thought it was about not receiving communion in the hand and I got excited. Less so when I saw the actual title 😅
Who decides if a person is living in sin?
Ask a priest for specific situations. If it's a lesser(venial) sin, then it can be forgiven by the process of attending Mass and the general confession during it. But if it breaks the big ones, like the Decalogue for instance, it's a mortal sin and it needs to be confessed before receiving the Eucharist
Your conscience. If you know you are doing something really bad and aren’t trying to stop, you chose to turn away from God’s love in little or big ways.
@@Thomasfboyle Unless your a psychopath /sociopath as they are born without a conscience.
@@MarkAnthony-wo9fr Sure, and little children and a myriad of other psychological divergences which nullify some or all culpability
@@Thomasfboyle I agree, it's a person's conscience that determines what is moral or not. Or sinful or not. Morality is subjective, not objective. (Unless someone is a psychopath.) Since the dawn of man we have had subjective morality. At one time it was objectively moral to own people as property. At one time it was objectively moral to stone a homosexual to death. So I am very grateful that we are always in search of moral progress.
It's okay to receive the eucharist without being in the state of grace, so long as you go to confession soon after. Many priests have said this also the preist from the book "how to save a thousand souls" said the same.
If you're in the state of mortal sin, do not approach the holy Eucharist
"Only say the word and my soul shall be healed"
@@cameraguy6297 "For anyone who eats and drinks the body of the Lord unworthily eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep " 1 Corinthians 11:30
@@HIMYMTR Look at the number of people going to recieve communion vs the number of people in the line to confession. I don't think priests are hearing 1000+ confessions a week, so how is the whole parish receiving the Eucharist.
Also, those people today who are receiving are not dying. There was probably some disease that was pulling those people to death to what St. Paul is referring to.
it's bread................................
Plus not on the hand
Why offer the communion, then complain that an unrepentant took it? RCC is supposed to be a closed communion.
The video is 15 minutes long and it was only uploaded 6 minutes ago. Maybe watch the video?
because it's a mortal sin. you don't need 15 minutes to explain that. it's really that simple.
Mortal sin is the bad idea. There's no theological basis for it and no scriptural evidence. I love this channel, but sometimes the evangelicals get things right lol. 1 John 1:8 is all that is needed here. Sorry. Good luck getting out of your state of sin before His return and our glorification
1 john 5:16 is a good start. God Bless 🙏
Does Jesus not describe categories of sin?
Best approach is to avoid all sins through trust in God, but there’s definitely some things worse than others…even by Jesus’s explicit mention
As a Lutheran turning to Catholicism, I know I'm a dirty sinner. I'm terrible. I know I don't deserve to touch Jesus' holy body in my current state, even though I *really* want to. I crave it. It tears me up specifically because I know I'm still clinging onto my sin. (Lust specifically.) I need to better myself and truly put in the work for my faith, to show our most holy God I mean it.
I think this "mortal sin" stuff is a worthy pursuit to help us sort ourselves out. It makes us better and gives Jesus' holy body the reverence it deserves. We need grace and that process of sanctification to ever become anything close to Jesus. I pray the Holy Spirit keeps working in me. I ask the saints pray for me as well.
Ultimately, if we're willing to compromise on one thing, what does that mean for other areas in our lives? You don't become Christian because it's easy. It's work and it's hard. It's a full-body dedication. My entire being. I don't want excuses. I just want to become better.
Well...not so fast :) As a former protestant, I think it's fair to say (although a simplification), that mortal sin is simply what protestants think of as sin. Venial sins are those sins we are not fully aware of, done out of habit (half-conscious). So mortal sin as a concept makes a lot of sense. In a way, the idea of "venial sins" is an "innovation". John 1.8 says that we must confess our sins, which we do in the sacrament of confession. Protestants do for some reason interpret this verse as the confession is private, but I don't think that's a "more biblical" view. So, in the confession, I confess to another human being, who acts in "persona Christi" as we say. The whole thing seems pretty biblical and sensical to me. And I confess to you: It helps me from committing certain acts since I don't want to forgo the Eucharist.
I can be brash but I do not intend to offend anyone. I only wish for everyone to get their theology correct, otherwise we bastardize the Gospel. 1 John 5:16 mentions a "sin unto death". This is commonly interpreted by many theologians as constant, willful and unrepentant sin, as there is no further explanation of this "sin unto death" in the Bible. This ties in to earlier in John, and the whole book is basically about the theology of sin and salvation and in 1 John 2:19 it reads "They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us." This is the whole "if they were really Christian they wouldn't have left, did this, did that" argument in Christendom which also ties in to the whole Calvinism and Arminianism debate, or, can you lose your salvation? Which all can be answered by solid scriptural theology. I recommend Dr. Michael Heiser to everyone.
I'm tired of God. I'm tired of Jesus. I'm tired of decades of a mental illness he let me have, and a decade of unanswered prayers. I'm tired of the hope he let me have which turned into more tragedy. I'm tired of worrying about what he thinks, I'm tired of my entire one-sided relationship with him. I'm tired of the living hell he put me in, his false promises and the gall of him to judge me and throw me into hell when for 30 years he ruined my life.
In any state of sin?