[28] But if someone says to you, "This was offered in sacrifice," do not eat it on account of the one who called attention to it and on account of conscience; [29] I mean not your own conscience, but the other's. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else's conscience? [30] If I partake thankfully, why am I reviled for that over which I give thanks? [31] So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God. [32] Avoid giving offense, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God, [33] just as I try to please everyone in every way, not seeking my own benefit but that of the many, that they may be saved.
(CCC 947) "Since all the faithful form one body, the good of each is communicated to the others.... We must therefore believe that there exists a communion of goods in the Church. But the most important member is Christ, since he is the head.... Therefore, the riches of Christ are communicated to all the members, through the sacraments." (St. Thomas Aquinas, Symb., 10). "As this Church is governed by one and the same Spirit, all the goods she has received necessarily become a common fund" (Roman Catechism I, 10, 24). (CCC 948) The term "communion of saints" therefore has two closely linked meanings: communion in holy things (sancta)" and "among holy persons (sancti). "Sancta sancti's! ("God's holy gifts for God's holy people") is proclaimed by the celebrant in most Eastern liturgies during the elevation of the holy Gifts before the distribution of communion. The faithful (sancti) are fed by Christ's holy body and blood (sancta) to grow in the communion of the Holy Spirit (koinonia) and to communicate it to the world.
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