[You object,] “But in the past I led a bad life.” To which I reply, “Don’t you know that the sickest person has most need of the doctor and of medicine?” Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is both our doctor and our medicine.
Saint Alphonsus Liguori
Both Our Doctor and Our Medicine
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2 responses to “Both Our Doctor and Our Medicine”
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I have always believed the Eucharist is medicine for sinners, not a reward for the good. It does ask the question about who is worthy to recieve the Eucharist. It seems the reward mentality is coming back, and only for Catholic sinless orthodox people. How could some one judge themselves as such?
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If anyone actually claims they are without sin, then we know what Saint John says about that! (1 Jn 1:8)
But it is also important to note that Saint Alphonsus answers the objection, “But in the past I led a bad life.” He is not answering another objection like, for example, “But I choose, in my deepest choices, to lead a bad life.”
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