March 18, 2012 – Catechism 1402 – 1405

I wonder if people understand when they receive the Eucharist that they are getting as close to Heaven as they can before they die. It is God, really present, He cannot be separate from Heaven, and so He is connected to it and brings it with Him. We commune or connect with Him in a very special way and are pulled into Heaven by our communion with Christ. To connect this with the idea that you should not receive if you do not believe or have mortal sin, if you do not believe it is Christ you do not believe Heaven is being brought to you. Heaven is not made for those that do not want to be there. Similarly, if you have mortal sin, it means you have turned your back on God. If you do not want to follow God, you will not want to be in Heaven, where God is fully present and wholly there. Both of these groups do not believe Heaven is present or do not want to be with God and have turned from His, so they should not receive the Eucharist or join in that communion because it is a lie. Everything is about that connection and because God is perfect and lacking in nothing, the only way the connection can falter is us. That is why you need to have that relationship, that connection with God, believe in what He has taught, believe in the Church He left to guide us and not be separated by mortal sin in order to receive the Eucharist.