The parish church of Amras, Austria, near Innsbruck in Tyrol, was chock-a-block full for the first-Communion Mass on April 22. Shortly before Communion, the parish priest, Norbertine Fr. Patrick Busskamp, announced that only Catholics who were in a state of grace should come forward to Communion. Catholics who are divorced and remarried and Catholics who do not attend Mass every week were not worthy to receive the Eucharist, he said.
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About time a priest was bold enough to do what he was ordained to do!!! More of them should take note and follow suit - but the thing that really astounds me is - why in the world don't all catholics know when they are committing a mortal sin, know to stay away from the eucharist, and why aren't they wanting to "right" themselves with the Lord??? Don't they know their very after life is in jeopardy?! Is it too easy to follow the world and foget they have another existence after death? Or don't they know this? Where have they been and how can their children be raised to know this? Why are they bothering to bring their children into the faith? Is it just the superficials they are wanting?
ReplyDeleteAll of these questions are a mystery to me. And so many are following this trend, which is saddening to me.
PLEASE GOD ENLIGHTEN YOUR PEOPLE!!! YOUR SHEEP
Thank you Fr. Busskamp for your faithfulness to the Holy Roman Catholic church. God bless you !
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