With Holy Communion, we become blood relatives of Christ, having the same blood group with Christ!

  

With Holy Communion, we become blood relatives of Christ, having the same blood group with Christ!

It is something terrible!

And it is known that blood kinship is of the first degree of kinship, carnally and spiritually.

It is not the frequency of Holy Communion that reveals the quality of the spiritual life, but the way of preparing for Holy Communion. I receive Grace not according to how regularly I receive Communion, but according to how well I am prepared for Holy Communion. The goal is that a person receives Grace.

What should I do, to receive Communion and sin... It is better not to receive Communion and not sin.

Of course, the ideal is to receive Communion regularly and prepared.

Saint Symeon the New Theologian says:

I have made so much effort, Lord, to receive You. Now I must work twice as hard to keep you, My Christ!

+Elder Ephraim of the Skete of Saint Andrew