10 MORTAL SINS TO CONFESS BEFORE GOING TO EUCHARIST

You can’t receive the Eucharist if you’ve:

1) Missed a weekend or Holy Day Mass without a valid reason
2) Having sex outside of marriage, with yourself (masturbation) or someone else
3) desecrated the Eucharist
4) haven’t been to confession in a year
5) Use artificial birth control – condoms, pills, patches, IUD’s, etc

6) sponsor or help in any way with an abortion or any destruction of an embryo
7) Murder
8) Hate/Anger
9) Lust after someone
10) Pride, Greed, Sloth, Envy

etc. etc. The list is not exhaustive, and any sin that we have meditated on before hand, understood its gravity and still chosen to do it can be a deadly sin.

C.C.C. 1857 FOR A SIN TO BE MORTAL, THREE CONDITIONS MUST TOGETHER BE MET: “MORTAL SIN IS SIN WHOSE OBJECT IS GRAVE MATTER AND WHICH IS ALSO COMMITTED WITH FULL KNOWLEDGE AND DELIBERATE CONSENT.”131
1 CORINTHIANS 11:27 27 THEREFORE WHOSOEVER SHALL EAT THIS BREAD, OR DRINK THE CHALICE OF THE LORD UNWORTHILY, SHALL BE GUILTY OF THE BODY AND OF THE BLOOD OF THE LORD.

Don’t step out of bounds…and by all means…if you do…get back in bounds through confession! Don’t desecrate the Eucharist and receive it as some sort of prize you’ve earned simply by showing up for Mass!

By Fr. John Hollowell
Source: On This Rock