Abstract

The Holy Eucharist is the Secret of our union and bringing up in Christ until we resemble Him. The receiving of this Holy Eucharist is not conditioned by time or by certain holidays, but by the moral worthiness of the one who receives it, worthiness that is won through inner purification of thoughts and unclean desires, through the deliverance from lusts and meanness, through sincere confession and true repentance. The Church’s discipline connected to the Communion with the Holy Secrets imposes, thus, a cleaning of the heart and a limitless endeavourment for moral improvement, before and after the receiving of the Holy Eucharist, in order to make as fruitful as possible inside us the honest and precious gem of Christ. Thus, not the rare and not the frequent receiving of the Eucharist help us achieve salvation, but the preparation of the soul with which we welcome Christ, The One that comes down into the secret of our souls in order to clean the sin within us and to live forever with Him.