🚫 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, focusing on the spiritual necessity of the Eucharist and the danger of approaching it without proper discernment and commitment. He argues that the Eucharist is the core test of what you truly believe.

The Ultimate Test of Faith
The Acid Test (0:01): Father Beard asserts that the Eucharist is the acid test of your faith. If you truly believe the Host is the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ, your conduct and reverence must match that belief.

St. Paul's Warning (0:46): He reiterates the critical warning from 1 Corinthians 11:29: receiving the Eucharist unworthily is to "eat and drink damn-ation upon yourself."

The First Commandment Violation (0:28): He warns that those who receive the Eucharist while treating it as a mere symbol or "cracker" are violating the First Commandment (Thou shalt have no other gods before me) because they are treating Christ's presence as a fake.

The Call to Adoration and Confession
Mortal Sin Blocks 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.

Adoration is the Proof (1:07): He challenges the faithful: If you cannot bring yourself to sit quietly for an hour in Adoration before the exposed Host (the physical presence of Christ), then you do not truly believe.

Your eternal soul is at stake. Do you truly believe? Prove it by your reverence for the Eucharist and your willingness to go to Confession!