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And being mindful of little things. 

As I was leaving the house yesterday afternoon to go to adoration, I almost stepped upon a dead sparrow.  I assumed he probably died protecting his nest in the bird box hanging in the tree branch above.  My discovery seemed especially providential in as much as Sunday’s Gospel included this verse from Matthew:

“Are not two sparrows sold for a small coin?  Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father’s knowledge.”  (Some translations offer, “consent“.) - Matthew 10:29

This seems pretty clear to me:

“To be in the state of grace you must embrace what the Church embraces, you have to embrace the faith of the Church, and you’re not free to receive the Eucharist if you don’t embrace the faith of the Church. This is St. Paul, this is St. Justin, this is the whole history of the Church.” - One must believe what the Church teaches to receive Holy Communion

[I expect this includes every teaching of the Church; such as the teaching on divorce and remarriage outside the Church, contraception, abortion, homosexuality, and so on.]