I was recently reading about Father Sterano Gobbi, the founder of the Marian Movement of Priests. Evidently he was blessed with messages from our Blessed Mother.
In 1979, Mary said to him, "The Church is deeple wounded by the multiplication of sacrilegious Communions. The time has come when your heavenly Mother says: enough!"
Then in 1984 she said, " Too many sicrileges are committed...by those who go to Holy Communion in the stat of mortal sin withou and longer going to confession."
On August 8, 1986, she told him, "It can be said that there is no longer nay Eucharistic celebration where sacrilegious communions are not made. If you only saw with my eyes how great this wound is which has contaminated the whole Church and paralyzes it, halts it, and makes it impure and so very sick! If you only saw with my erys, you too would shed copious tears with me."
I have three questions.
1. What is a sacrilegious Communion?
2. Obviously abortion, artificial contraception and extramarital sex are serious sins, but can you give me more specific examples of sins we should be confessing?
3. What did our Lady mean when she indicated that our individual sins have "contaminated this whole Church"?
Sincerely,
Patti
Patti,
A sacreligious communion occurs when someone is not in a state of grace as a result of committing a mortal (serious, grave) sin, not having confessed it and having it absolved. For someone to commit a mortal sin there has to be grave matter, the person has to be aware of the grave matter and consented to the act freely. While you listed some grave matter they only become grave sins when they are freely entered into with full knowledge and consent. Other grave matter would include, murder, serious physical abuse, any offenses against sexuality outside of marriage and not open to life, serious theft or lying that would cause grave harm. Despite the fact that the Church is pure and undefiled herself and we are all called to be holy the reality is that we all are sinners and that disconnect between how we are called to live and our sinful nature contaminates the Holy Church of Christ that was given to us for our salvation.
Fr. Pisut
