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reserved sin	Tom	Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Question: Is failing to report (nondeliberate)Eucharistic abuse considered reserved sin? I visited friends five years ago and was aware the Sacred Host was held for in their home without approval and I never reported this out of denial.I recently revisited them and observed the same abuse.I went to confession for failing to report this.I contacted their pastor and he retrieved Jesus. Also, as a teen I found what I thought was a piece of a Host in church, brought the host home placed it in bible until I could figure out what to do with it for a few days until I finally consumed it. Is this reserved sin?
Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OMSM(r), LTh, DD Dear Tom: No, failing to report Eucharistic abuse is not a reserved sin that requires absolution from the Pope. You did the right thing to eventually contact your friend's pastor. What you did is as a teen is also not a reserved sin. Since you did not know what to do with the Host placing it in your bible until you could figure it out was okay. Consuming it was the proper thing to do, or you could have given it to your parish priest. Reserved sins are: defiling the Eucharist; attempting to assassinate the Pope; a Priest breaking the Seal of Confession; a priest who has sex with someone and then offers forgiveness for the act; and a man who directly participates in an abortion – even by paying for it – who then seeks to become a priest or deacon. Only the Pope can lift the excommunication incurred by these sins. Your friends did not defile the Eucharist, but even if they had done that you were not involved. You need to stop worrying about reserved sin. You are not likely to ever commit a reserved sin. Defiling the Eucharist are such things receiving the Eucharist and then spitting it out or otherwise desecrating it. Satanist and other occultists sometimes to this. And then there is the numskull Paul Myers, from the University of Minnesota, who said and did: "I pierced it with a rusty nail. Then I simply threw it in the trash. Question everything. God is not great, Jesus is not your Lord." God Bless, Bro. Ignatius Mary Footer Notes: This forum is for general questions on the faith. See specific Topic Forums below: Spiritual Warfare, demons, the occult go to our Spiritul Warfare Q&S Forum. Liturgy Questions go to our Liturgy and Liturgical Law Q&A Forum Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) Questions go to our Divine Office Q&A Forum Defenfing the Faith Questions go to our Defending the Faith Q&A Forum Church History Questions go to our Church History Q&A Forum

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Tom

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

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Is failing to report (nondeliberate)Eucharistic abuse considered reserved sin? I visited friends five years ago and was aware the Sacred Host was held for in their home without approval and I never reported this out of denial.I recently revisited them and observed the same abuse.I went to confession for failing to report this.I contacted their pastor and he retrieved Jesus.

Also, as a teen I found what I thought was a piece of a Host in church, brought the host home placed it in bible until I could figure out what to do with it for a few days until I finally consumed it. Is this reserved sin?

Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OMSM(r), LTh, DD

Dear Tom:

No, failing to report Eucharistic abuse is not a reserved sin that requires absolution from the Pope.

You did the right thing to eventually contact your friend's pastor.

What you did is as a teen is also not a reserved sin. Since you did not know what to do with the Host placing it in your bible until you could figure it out was okay. Consuming it was the proper thing to do, or you could have given it to your parish priest.

Reserved sins are:

defiling the Eucharist;
attempting to assassinate the Pope;
a Priest breaking the Seal of Confession;
a priest who has sex with someone and then offers forgiveness for the act; and
a man who directly participates in an abortion – even by paying for it – who then seeks to become a priest or deacon.

Only the Pope can lift the excommunication incurred by these sins.

Your friends did not defile the Eucharist, but even if they had done that you were not involved.

You need to stop worrying about reserved sin. You are not likely to ever commit a reserved sin.

Defiling the Eucharist are such things receiving the Eucharist and then spitting it out or otherwise desecrating it. Satanist and other occultists sometimes to this.

And then there is the numskull Paul Myers, from the University of Minnesota, who said and did: "I pierced it with a rusty nail. Then I simply threw it in the trash. Question everything. God is not great, Jesus is not your Lord."

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary

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