Honor the Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament

There are at least five distinct injuries to the Body of Christ when a minister gives Holy Communion to one who is divorced and remarried contrary to the law of the Church.

First, The Body of Christ himself is dishonored in the Sacred Host;

Second, the minister acting in the person of Christ abuses his ecclesiastical function;

Third, the ecclesial community representing the body of Christ is deprived of seeing God rightly adored;

Fourth, the spouse united in an indissoluble bond reflecting the love of Christ and his Church suffers further the spiritual death of his/her partner;

Fifth, the participant, a member of the body of Christ commits a sacrilege.