Why Are the Possessed Kept from Communion?

How is it, then, that we see them not only scorned and shunned by everybody, but actually always kept away from the Lord’s communion in our provinces, in keeping with these words of the gospel: “Do not give what is holy to the dogs, and do not throw your pearls before pigs”? And yet you tell us that we ought somehow to hold that the humiliation of this trial is brought on them for their purification and benefit. [a]