1 Corinthians 11:22 (WEB)
What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.
Catechism · 1
“The Eucharistic assembly (synaxis), because the Eucharist is celebrated amid the assembly of the faithful, the visible expression of the Church.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 11:17-34.
Fathers and councils · 2
“Or despise ye the church of God, and shame those who have not?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 21, 22.
Read the whole comment“Such ought those who are consecrated to Christ appear, and frame themselves in their whole life, as they fashion themselves in the church for the sake of gravity; and to be, not to seem such—so meek, so pious, so loving.” — editor's note: [1 Cor. xi. 22. But I cannot say that the word ἐκκλησία is used for the place of Christian worship, even in this text, where it seems to be in antithesis with…
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