Quote from: Deborah on August 14, 2016, 11:01:16 AM
I would like again to take the Holy Eucharist. However, the best I can make out from its vagaries, by Catholic definition I am in a state of mortal sin for using HRT.
So, believing them and taking it simply sends me to hell.
Or ignoring them removes any reason I have for being a Catholic. By definition, taking communion is a state of coming into perfect union with God and with the Church.
Either way, taking it right now leaves me with a bad feeling.
I realize that what I am referring to is about 2 years old and I hope you are at peace with God more.
some considerations to bear in mind is that you are desiring to have communion with God and the catholic church is teaching that this eucarist becomes the Lord's body and blood when you eat it by transubstantiation. There is nothing
Scriptural about this at all. Jesus said do this in memory of me, not to put Him in your body. I do have a catholic back ground and it is steeped in guilt and shame and I am never able to live up to what is expected, and they don't offer an option. A conversation I had with a priest some years ago showed me he was in a hopeless situation when he told me all he had was the hope of salvation, when Jesus clearly said if you believe in Him, you have salvation and nothing can take it away. Most of the teachings they present are from traditions, not scripture. They have some scriptural basis, but are often twisted around. There is only one sin that is a 'mortal' sin and sends one to hell and that is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. In other words there is no difference in venial or mortal sins as they teach it, but all sin separates us from the presence of God. When Jesus said my God my God, why have you forsaken me, it was because Jesus had become sin, for us, and was separated from the Father, because God cannot be in the presence of sin. Fear not. Jesus took all sin to the cross and put it to death, so that anybody and everybody can be in God, and not be forsake, but
only through Christ. Sin can only be covered by a blood sacrifice of a spotless lamb(foreshadowing of the Christ to come), and that spotless Lamb is Christ the Lord. But, sin is no longer covered, but completely forgiven if you simply believe that Jesus is who He said He is. And though it is a long winded posting I believe it is the only purpose for life, and that is to have communion with and be in God's presence. Sin separated us from God, through Adam's sin and the second Adam(Jesus) reunited us, when he took our sin to the cross.
