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Text Box: (Luke 22:19-20) And taking bread, he gave thanks and brake and gave to them, saying: This is my body, which is given for you. Do this for a commemoration of me. In like manner, the chalice also, after he had supped, saying: This is the chalice, the new testament in my blood, which shall be shed for you. There is no symbolism in these statements by God. These are harsh, stark, statements of fact made by God. Those who receive a symbol of Christ’s Body have no life in them. Those who receive a symbol of Christ’s Blood have no life in them. They may be the most advanced intellects of their age possessing knowledge and understanding of God surpassed only by that possessed by God Himself, but they are spiritually dead by God’s own words. They may have hearts filled with love, and desire God with every fiber of their being, and desire to be good with a strength only surpassed by that which is possessed by God Himself, but they are spiritually dead by God’s own words. It is impossible to misinterpret those words: except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. It is impossible to think those words mean anything other than that which they explicitly state. Therefore, every great evangelist of modern times who never received the Sacred Body and Blood of Christ, which can only be confected by a true Priest who possesses Apostolic Succession, every one of them is spiritually dead. What God does with them we have no idea. What He does with them is His business. But is difficult to imagine these men and women, who studied Christianity so industriously, would take Jesus Christ God at His own word in all matters and then make an exception and promote the concept that when it came to eating His Flesh and drinking His Blood, God was speaking and instructing symbolically. It obviously was not a

Text Box: parable of the flesh and blood which Jesus Christ God proclaimed. It was and is an iron clad doctrine. Those who receive the Body and Blood of Christ unworthily are guilty of His Passion and Death. Every Priest, therefore, prays Divine Liturgy with a certain level of fear and trepidation, for in his heart of hearts he acknowledges his unworthiness is set aside only by the very Essence of God which he receives in the Sacred Eucharist. Because of this no Priest should ever confect the Eucharist if he is in a liturgical setting not of his own Church or Jurisdiction, unless he is completely certain of the dogmatic correctness of where he is. If he is visiting a monastery and has any level of doubt as to the dogmatic correctness of that monastery or its liturgy, he should not con-celebrate, for it is possible the Eucharist has not be confected in that place in recent times and those who receive the Eucharist he has confected will actually receive the Eucharist while no believing in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. For the same reason a Priest who has left the true Church and joined a Protestant organization should never confect the Eucharist. In all such instances that Priest will then have caused Christ to be brought into a home which has rejected Him, and will have caused those who receive Christ unworthily to be guilty of His Passion and Death, guilty of His Body and Blood. And that Priest will also be guilty of each of those individual sins himself. For a similar reason the required fast prior to reception of the Sacred Eucharist should not be waived or a dispensation granted unless it is requested. For as long as the congregation has not been granted a blanket dispensation from the fast, it is

Text Box: possible for someone who should not receive the Sacred Eucharist, to abstain without public humiliation. For there always is the presumption the individual who abstains from the Eucharist so does because the fast was broken. Of course in war time or emergencies it is customary for the Priest to give general absolution and a blanket dispensation from the fast, thus alleviating the potential for embarrassment to those who otherwise would be unable to receive the Body and Blood of Christ. Anything which a human can do, and everything which a human does, which is not done in conjunction with or accordance with or after or in the consummation of the Flesh and Blood of Christ, is worthless, without effect - or at least without permanent effect, and will not be effective. It is for this reason those who seek social justice without first seeking to instill spirituality in those who are to dispense and those who are to receive social justice, especially that which is prompted by the emotions, are doomed to fail, for they have not sought social justice in conjunction with spirituality. It is only when social justice is taught and practiced as a part of and in conjunction with spirituality that social justice may become a part of the fabric of life. True social justice simply can not exist apart from spirituality. Nor can any improvement in the material condition of man, of humankind, of society, take effect unless it is rooted in the foundation of spirituality. This is why social organizations which lack a spiritual foundation, especially those which rely on the goodness of humans, on the ability of humans to take care of the needs and betterment of other humans, are doomed to failure - for they are not founded in the source of all

Text Box: For a similar reason the required fast prior to reception of the Sacred Eucharist should not be waived or a dispensation granted unless it is requested. For as long as the congregation has not been granted a blanket dispensation from the fast, it is possible for someone who should not receive the Sacred Eucharist, to abstain without

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