Jesus is on the Floor

Let us renew our holy fear of ever allowing willful or unwillful desecration of the Eucharist.

Comments from kolbe1019:

"Whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord." - 1 Cor. 11:27

(From the Council of Trent)
Canon 1: If anyone denies that in the sacrament of the most Holy Eucharist are contained truly, really and substantially the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and consequently the whole Christ, but says that He is in it only as in a sign, or figure or force, let him be anathema.

Canon 2: If anyone says that in the sacred and, holy sacrament of the Eucharist the substance of the bread and wine remains conjointly with the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denies that wonderful and singular change of the whole substance of the bread into the body and the whole substance of the wine into the blood, the appearances only of bread and wine remaining, which change the Catholic Church most aptly calls transubstantiation, let him be anathema.

Canon 3: If anyone denies that in the venerable sacrament of the Eucharist the whole Christ is contained under each form and under every part of each form when separated,let him be anathema.

Canon 4: If anyone says that after the consecration is completed, the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ are not in the admirable sacrament of the Eucharist, but are there only , while being taken and not before or after, and that in the hosts or CONSECRATED PARTICLES which are reserved or which remain after communion, the true body of the Lord does not remain, let him be anathema.

Canon 6: If anyone says that in the holy sacrament of the Eucharist, Christ, the only begotten Son of God, is not to be adored with the worship of latria . . . let him be anathema.

See the rest of the Canons of the Council of Trent on the Most Holy Eucharist. As you can see what we believe is very clear.

(ANATHEMA... Does it mean what you think it means? I include the following not to condemn and nor does the Church condemn, but to show the severity of the situation on this matter.)

"Wherefore in the name of God the All-powerful, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, of the Blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and of all the saints, in virtue of the power which has been given us of binding and loosing in Heaven and on earth, we deprive N-- himself and all his accomplices and all his abettors of the Communion of the Body and Blood of Our Lord, we separate him from the society of all Christians, we exclude him from the bosom of our Holy Mother the Church in Heaven and on earth, we declare him excommunicated and anathematized and we judge him condemned to eternal fire with Satan and his angels and all the reprobate, so long as he will not burst the fetters of the demon, do penance and satisfy the Church; we deliver him to Satan to mortify his body, that his soul may be saved on the day of judgement."

(The Church has ALWAYS believed in the Eucharist...From the Early Church)

"This food we call the Eucharist, of which no one is allowed to partake except one who believes that the things we teach are true, and has received the washing for forgiveness of sins and for rebirth, and who lives as Christ handed down to us. For we do not receive these things as common bread or common drink; but as Jesus Christ our Savior being incarnate by God's Word took flesh and blood for our salvation, so also we have been taught that the food consecrated by the Word of prayer which comes from him, from which our flesh and blood are nourished by transformation, is the flesh and blood of that incarnate Jesus."- Justin Martyr's First ApologyCh. 66, inter A.D. 148-155.

"They do not admit that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, the flesh which suffered for our sins and which the Father, in His graciousness, raised from the dead." -Ignatius of Antioch's Letter to the Smyrnaeans paragraph 6. circa 80-110 A.D.

If you have a problem with all of this... I am sorry, but your problem is with God. He instituted the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Catholic faith. Safe guarding this Sacred Mystery should be the first thing on the minds and hearts of every Catholic. How can we recognize Christ in his distressing disguise of the poor if we cannot recognize him in his humble disguise of the host?