YOUCAT Question n. 221 - Part III. How does Holy Communion change me?
(Youcat answer – repeated) Every Holy
Communion unites me more deeply with Christ, makes me a living member of the
Body of Christ, renews the graces that I received in Baptism and Confirmation,
and fortifies me for the battle against sin.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 1394)
As bodily nourishment restores lost strength, so the Eucharist strengthens our
charity, which tends to be weakened in daily life; and this living charity wipes away venial sins (Cf. Council of
Trent (1551): DS 1638). By giving himself to us Christ revives our love and
enables us to break our disordered attachments to creatures and root ourselves
in him: Since Christ died for us out of love, when we celebrate the memorial of
his death at the moment of sacrifice we ask that love may be granted to us by
the coming of the Holy Spirit. We humbly pray that in the strength of this love
by which Christ willed to die for us, we, by receiving the gift of the Holy
Spirit, may be able to consider the world as crucified for us, and to be
ourselves as crucified to the world.... Having received the gift of love, let
us die to sin and live for God (St. Fulgentius of Ruspe, Contra Fab. 28, 16-19: CCL 19A, 813-814).
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 1395)
By the same charity that it enkindles in us, the Eucharist preserves us from future mortal sins. The more we share the life of
Christ and progress in his friendship, the more difficult it is to break away
from him by mortal sin. The Eucharist is not ordered to the forgiveness of
mortal sins - that is proper to the sacrament of Reconciliation. The Eucharist
is properly the sacrament of those who are in full communion with the Church.
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