🚫 Stop Eating Your Own Damn-ation! You Must Discern the Body (Fr. Mark Beard)

Father Mark Beard delivers one of his most urgent and uncompromising homilies, directly confronting the spiritual danger of receiving the Eucharist unworthily. He stresses that the Eucharist is the acid test of your faith and that approaching it in a state of mortal sin or unbelief is a severe violation of the First and Eighth Commandments.

The Immediate Danger:
St. Paul's Warning (0:01): Father Beard quotes St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 11:29 directly: "He that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damn-ation upon himself." He warns that St. Paul could not have been more clear about the danger of improper reception.

The First Commandment Violation (0:19): If you approach Communion without belief or proper reverence, you are guilty of violating the First Commandment (Thou shalt have no other gods before me) because you are treating Christ as a fake or a mere symbol.

The Acid Test of Faith (0:26): The Eucharist is the ultimate test of your commitment. If you truly believe the host is the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ, your conduct, language, and attitude must reflect that truth.

Mortal Sin and Confession
The Sins That Block Grace (0:56): Father Beard insists that if you have committed a mortal sin (and he specifically calls out detraction, slander, and impurity), you cannot receive the Eucharist until you go to Confession.

The Eight Commandments and the Eighth (1:07): He highlights the irony of committing detraction (slander/gossip) with your mouth only to use that same mouth moments later to receive the Body of Christ.

The Call to Adoration
Adoration is the Proof (1:11): If you can't bring yourself to sit quietly for an hour in Adoration before the exposed Host (the physical presence of Christ) and pour your heart out to Him, then you do not truly believe.

Get Off the Fence (1:36): His final challenge is to "get off that fence." You must know what you believe, and if you believe in the Real Presence, you must conduct yourself accordingly, or you risk eating and drinking damnation upon yourself.

The spiritual stakes are eternal. Do not treat the Eucharist as common bread. Go to Confession and receive Christ worthily!