leo daly wrote:Action Req Where did you see it written that Christ said "Jesus says: Freely ye have received; freely give ye. My body was never meant to be administered but given. How can you administer what was given freely?"
1st letter of St Paul to the Corinthians 11:29 For if you eat the bread or drink the cup unworthily, not honoring the body of Christ, you are eating and drinking God's judgment upon yourself.
Matthew 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. 6 Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. 7 As you go, proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ 8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.
Freely you have received?
What have they received?
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
So what should they freely give?
1st letter of St Paul to the Corinthians 11:29 For if you eat the bread or drink the cup unworthily, not honoring the body of Christ, you are eating and drinking God's judgment upon yourself.
Well and? So what?
I prefer 1000
times the judgment of God upon
me than no judgment of God upon
me. The mistake that you make is
to presume that you can prevent
dear Jesus to fall in the hands of
the unworthy. Jesus can handle
the unworthy souls very well
and make them worthy.
If you prevent the so called
unworthy from communion you
commit the sin of the disciple who
tells Jesus to shut up the people
who are driving out demons in
the name of Jesus.
"Master," said John, "we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we tried to stop him, because he is not one of us."
You underestimate Jesus by thinking
that 'the unworthy' defile the
consecrated host.
My Jesus is stronger than that
He is like Listerine to unworthy
bacteria and like an ointment for
the suppressed soul. He will
surely make the good come out of
the unworthy. Unless one wants to
prevent that, I feel that is a sin.
We should know better by now.