Can Someone Be Denied Holy Communion?
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes we can be tricked into thinking that the Holy Communion we receive at Mass every Sunday is somehow owed to us; that we have a right to receive it. However, the Eucharist, which is Jesus Christ’s own body and blood, is a divine gift bestowed upon us by our Heavenly Father. And because it’s a gift, the way we receive it and the state of our souls matter greatly to our relationship with God. Which begs the question: can someone be denied Holy Communion?
Today, Fr. Mike explains whether communion is a gift that can be taken away, and what that means for public figures who openly support practices against the Church, like abortion.
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| 0:00.0 | How many of his father Mike Schmitz and this is a sentient present. |
| 0:02.4 | So this might be a little bit of a rough video. |
| 0:05.6 | I guess we'll just start. |
| 0:07.0 | So years ago, I worked on a college campus. |
| 0:18.7 | That has a medical school. |
| 0:20.2 | And at one point, after one of the Sunday Night Mass, one of the medical students came |
| 0:23.5 | up to me and he said, Father, I want to share with you this manifesto that I've written |
| 0:26.6 | and I told me more about it. |
| 0:29.2 | And he said, we had an embryology section in our medical school. |
| 0:33.4 | And for weeks, we studied how human life is conceived, how human life begins, how human |
| 0:38.9 | life develops, and how human life develops. |
| 0:41.5 | And the woman comes to fruition, and he's essentially in childbirth. |
| 0:44.6 | And he said, we had this whole section on embryology, how this mystery and incredible power |
| 0:51.9 | and beauty of human conception, development, and childbirth. |
| 0:57.6 | And he said, and then at the end of that section, they gave us a section on abortion. |
| 1:02.2 | How to perform an abortion? |
| 1:04.6 | And he said, I said, this is, wait a second, did you, do we not all go through the same |
| 1:10.0 | class where we just have been studying the fact that this is human life from the moment |
| 1:15.7 | of conception? |
| 1:16.7 | Because think about this, like you can ask the question scientifically, is this life |
| 1:19.4 | or not life? |
| 1:20.4 | Well, it's life. |
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