Some people wonder why there is so much unhappiness and even broken marriages and wayward children among some families of practicing, traditionalist Catholics. Could the answer possibly lie in the reception of lukewarm Communions; in totally inadequate preparations to receive Him before whom the angles themselves tremble in awestruck love and adoration?
“…and often brings down the curse of God.”
(The quote on this graphic is taken from the book,
THE HOLY COMMUNION, by Fr. John Bernard Dalgairns, 1903. His reference is: Viva, Dam. Prop.23, Alexander VII)
Father Dalgairns writes, “When communions are indevout, no penitent ought to be allowed to communicate frequently. The actual graces peculiar to the sacrament are wasted…..I cannot think that daily communion, by any physical or fatal necessity, ensures devotion. This is not God’s way. Devotion does not drop from the clouds, nor does grace make its way into a soul which willfully puts an obstacle to it. Let us never forget that we must do something on our part to obtain these dispositions, and moreover, that they are necessary.”
“Let us recollect what has been already said about the necessity for actual grace to enable us to make any use whatever of habitual grace…habitual grace, though it remains permanently in the soul, requires the constant aid of actual graces to excite it to action and that without the continual influx of these graces from heaven it lies inactive within us. ”
The actual quote in the book continues with this admonition: “And because tepidity and the want of actual aids from God negatively dispose the soul to a grievous fall, therefore, carelessness in this respect is very dangerous, for it disposes to grave falls, and often brings down the curse of God.”
