Justified fury, but at what cost?

December 6, 2018
Father Piers Lahey
Daly City
 
I was very sad to read the recent letter from a woman who is leaving the church after living as a Catholic all her life. Jesus is still Lord, Jesus has not left the church but is present in her until the end of days. Why is the writer withdrawing from the grace of the sacraments: Absolution of sins, anointing of the sick and elderly, and most especially, the Eucharist, that sacred moment of Communion with Jesus, at every daily and Sunday Mass, the same Lord who says so clearly, “Unless you eat my body and drink my blood, you do not have fullness of life.” The author’s outrage and fury is totally justified, but why is she cutting herself off from the fountain of the church’s life-giving sacraments? Isn’t that what happens when someone stops being Catholic?
 

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