We saw another holy father called Eulogius, who had received from God the grace of being able to discern both the merits and the guilt of anyone who approached the altar of God, so that he would stop some of the monks coming to him for Communion saying: “How can you dare to approach the divine Sacraments when your mind and intentions are evil? In fact, last night you had thoughts of fornication, but you said to yourself: ‘It makes no difference whether you come to the Sacrament as one of the sinful or one of the righteous.'”
And there was another who quibbled in his heart, saying; “Well, isn’t Communion able to sanctify me anyway?”
He refused to give Communion to each one of these and said: “Go away for a while and do penance. Purify yourself by making satisfaction [for your sins] in tears. Then you may be fit to receive the Communion of Christ.”
