How can we prepare ourselves to receive the body and blood of the Lord?
Q771 · The Sacrament of the Eucharist
The believer should examine his conscience before God and purify it through repentance. The Apostle says, “Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in
1487 St. Basil of Caesarea, Letters 1–185 93 To the Patrician Caesarea, about Communion (FOTC 13:208).
1488 St. Basil of Caesarea, De baptismo 10.6, 54.
1489 St. Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament 82.1 (NPNF I/6:504).
1490 Jean Daniélou, The Bible and the Liturgy (Darton, Longman & Todd, 1956): pp. 137; see also St. John Chrysostom, Homilies On Hebrews 17.6 (NPNF I/14:449).
an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgement to himself, not discerning the Lord's body” (1 Cor. 11:27–29).