Understanding what you think that person should understand about communion is another issue.
We've already been over this. What looked like a good-faith discussion seems to have devolved into repetitious nonsense. If you have nothing more substantive to offer, I'm done.
In a way you are right. No one but God can prevent anyone from taking Communion unworthily. The Church cares for souls.
Mark 8:36
“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?
I know this is a little out of context but for what do you risk your soul? Receiving communion is a priceless gift from Christ, He gives Himself body and blood, soul and divinity. But we are greedy and we want it all. We want to live our lives the way we want and then take the gift without repercussion.
If you are remarried without receiving a nullity of your previous marriage through the Church you are openly living in sin. Therefore you should not want to go against Church teaching at the risk of your soul.
I appreciate the response. As for Biblical authority Matthew 16:18-19 gives the Holy Roman Catholic Church all the authority it needs to decide such matters, particularly when it comes to administering the sacraments.
As such The Church’s Canon No.: 915 states: Those upon whom the penalty of excommunication or interdict has been imposed or declared, and others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to holy communion.
Furthermore as 1 Corinthians 11:27 tells us that those who eat the Body and Blood of Christ do so unworthily and furher condemn themselves.
Therefore, denying someone who is in a state of manifest grave sin is the duty of the priest. It is also an act of mercy to prevent further damnation of the individual’s soul.