Two Byzantine Catholic priests, speaking independently in recent podcasts, identified the same sickness in the Roman Church: too many Catholics treat the parish as a place to obtain the Eucharist and then leave.
“Is it valid?” has become the only question, as though right worship, sacred beauty, sound teaching, tradition, reverence, and a real parish community were optional extras.
But the Church is not a sacramental filling station, and the Eucharist is not a commodity dispensed to isolated consumers.
We are not saved as detached individuals who happen to receive the same valid Sacrament. We are incorporated into the Body of Christ: formed by her worship, bound to a community, and called into a shared life of repentance, prayer, sacrifice, and communion.
The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life, not an excuse to stop caring about everything that should flow from it.
Video: https://x.com/breesolstad/status/2071789837909434824?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w
Video: https://x.com/breesolstad/status/2071789837909434824?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w
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