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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]In your opinion and according to the tenets of the Catholic church. But it is "OK" with a lot of practicing Catholics who don't follow lots of other church rules - like birth control.[/quote]

Relativism aside, it is not an "opinion," but rather a matter of unambiguous church discipline (law). And while a given individual's observance or non-observance of church teachings may be between them and God, it is scandalous for them to encourage others to approach sacrament s for which they are neither [b]properly prepared nor suitably disposed[/b]. [/quote]

Thank God (literally) that Jesus Himself didn’t hold the apostles to this arrogant and ridiculous standard at the Last Supper...

BTW — if the RCC actually enforced its own subjective laws pertaining to the reception of the Eucharist — I suspect at least 95% of Church attendees every Sunday would be found ineligible for one reason or another, including the priest.[/quote]

You're correct. Got the standard wrong -- backward.

It is "suitably prepared and properly disposed."

That is the precise wording of the relevant Canon.

As for the standard Jesus held the Apostles to at the Last Supper, what do you know about their respective interior dispositions at the first Eucharist, other than perhaps Judas?  They certainly were suitably prepared. He had been preparing them for years. Their proper disposition can be inferred (despite incidents of cowardice along the way) from the vast majority of them having died as martyrs.

As for the vast majority of people being unworthy, no one ever really is worthy. But the Church invites its members in Christ's name, asking only that persons in a state of grave sin refrain lest they eat and drink to their condemnation, as St. Paul writes.[/quote]

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