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| May 2, 2020 at 16:00 | comment | added | Geremia | @Thom The purity laws were not hygienic laws but to teach the ancient Israelites about the difference between sin and holiness, to distinguish profane and holy, etc. The Pharisee's hand-washing, for example, was their own tradition made to appear like the ceremonial precepts of the Old Law. Jesus shows that our exterior practices are not ends in themselves but means to achieving interior holiness, when He quotes: "rend your hearts, and not your garments" (Joel 2:13). | |
| May 2, 2020 at 16:00 | comment | added | Geremia | @Thom Being in mortal sin. | |
| May 2, 2020 at 9:42 | comment | added | Thom | Is there something else that makes one "impure" to receive communion? For example, does touching the corpse makes one impure for receiving the communion (since this was also one way to become impure, as explained in Numbers 19)? | |
| May 1, 2020 at 20:34 | history | answered | Geremia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |