Can A Greek Catholic Become An Orthodoux Church Parishoner

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Can I start attending an Orthodoux church? We are both of Ukranian origin, and the priest doesnt mind giving Ukranian Catholics communion. The reason is my priest provides his parishoners that are in a home with monthly divine litergy and allows the Orthodoux to receive communion without any problems. The Orthodoux priest is not allowed to hold mass because their is not enough Orthodoux in the various homes in town. I just feel that a church that follows a proper divine litergy service ie have an icon screen, deacons ect… would be just what I need at this point in my life of faith. My church doesnt have these things and they wont get them.
 
We have a traditional Ukranian Catholic church down the street from the Orthodoux church but their days are numbered only 6 people attend regularly.No sense going to that church!!
 
Orthodox priests should not be giving communion to non-Orthodox Christians. Roman Catholics, out of respect for the Orthodox Church, shouldn’t partake of our communion. 🙂

Peace be with you,
zekariya
 
I think this is a question for your spiritual director, rather than an online forum.
 
Ukrforever said:
We have a traditional Ukranian Catholic church down the street from the Orthodoux church but their days are numbered only 6 people attend regularly.No sense going to that church!!
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If you do not go there, how will their congregation grow?
 
Ukrforever said:
We have a traditional Ukranian Catholic church down the street from the Orthodoux church but their days are numbered only 6 people attend regularly.No sense going to that church!!
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I hope you will go there and support this parish.
What country are you in? There is more communing of Catholics in Orthodox parishes by their priests in a number of places outside the lower 48 here in the US.
 
Zekariya said:
Orthodox priests should not be giving communion to non-Orthodox Christians. Roman Catholics, out of respect for the Orthodox Church, shouldn’t partake of our communion. 🙂

Peace be with you,
zekariya
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This may perhaps be an “official” policy, but it rarely works out where the rubber meets the road. From what I understand it is not uncommon in the Middle East for Eastern Catholics to belong to Orthodox parishes and vice versa, with inter-communion and inter-marriage being pretty much the norm. When one is struggling for survival one really see how petty one’s quibbles are with one’s brethren in the Faith. From what I understand this is also quite frequent here in the U.S. I’ve heard that it is permitted at the discretion of the priest, or perhaps the local bishop of whatever Orthodox diocese the parish belongs to.

Finally, you’ve made the mistake of lumping all Catholics into the “Roman” category. please remember and respect the fact that not all Catholics are Roman. The Eastern(Byzantine) Catholics are much closer to you in nearly all ways than with their Roman brethren.

Peace and blessings to you!
 
Phillip_Rolfes said:
This may perhaps be an “official” policy, but it rarely works out where the rubber meets the road. From what I understand it is not uncommon in the Middle East for Eastern Catholics to belong to Orthodox parishes and vice versa, with inter-communion and inter-marriage being pretty much the norm. When one is struggling for survival one really see how petty one’s quibbles are with one’s brethren in the Faith. From what I understand this is also quite frequent here in the U.S. I’ve heard that it is permitted at the discretion of the priest, or perhaps the local bishop of whatever Orthodox diocese the parish belongs to.

Finally, you’ve made the mistake of lumping all Catholics into the “Roman” category. please remember and respect the fact that not all Catholics are Roman. The Eastern(Byzantine) Catholics are much closer to you in nearly all ways than with their Roman brethren.

Peace and blessings to you!
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Forgive me, by saying Roman, I meant in communion with the Pope. I didn’t mean to offend anyone by using that term. :o
 
Zekariya said:
Forgive me, by saying Roman, I meant in communion with the Pope. I didn’t mean to offend anyone by using that term. :o
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It’s understandable. Nearly all non-Eastern Catholics (the Roman Catholics tend to be the worst) do it, thus prolonging the confusion. 😛
 
As I understand it, the official canonical policy of the Catholic Church is that anyone may fill their Sunday obligation at an Orthodox Divine Liturgy, Roman Catholics may commune if there is no Catholic church available, and Greek Catholics may commune if there is no Byzantine-rite Catholic church available (because we have a canonical right to practice our faith as Byzantines - and a right is something which the Church regards as a good in itself, something which is right and good to exercise, not just a concession to something we’re allowed to do).

I personally think that we should be allowed to commune in whatever church will give us communion (as many Orthodox priests will), since anyone willing to give us communion is not in schism from us ipso facto, but I personally will also obey the Church and refrain from receiving Communion where my bishops have forbidden. Obedience is necessary for sanctity and salvation, even if we don’t like what we’re told to do.
 
Cecilianus said:
I personally think that we should be allowed to commune in whatever church will give us communion (as many Orthodox priests will), since anyone willing to give us communion is not in schism from us ipso facto,…
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You can go to an Anglican parish at any time, they will accommodate you. 🙂
 
Hesychios said:
You can go to an Anglican parish at any time, they will accommodate you. 🙂
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Oh yeah! I can receive Holy Communion from a Druid!

Sarcasm aside, I would not do this, even for an Anglican parish that had valid Holy Orders and therefore true Holy Communion (some do, most don’t), because they do have an “anything goes” attitude towards doctrine, meaning I would be communing with heretics, and a problem with authority and finding authentic jurisdictions. The latter objection would not necessarily stop me from communing there; I would just prefer an Ordinariate parish.

I do not see the Orthodox as having either of these problems, though.
 
Ukrforever said:
We have a traditional Ukranian Catholic church down the street from the Orthodoux church but their days are numbered only 6 people attend regularly.No sense going to that church!!
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I hope you will consider supporting this Church. It sounds from the description you provided that they may just have something you need.

I’m not trying to be pushy, I just hate hearing about churches dying off…
 
Learn how to sing really well and really loudly and THEN go to the parish. That’s what most parishes need - good singers who don’t mind drowning everyone else out in the attempt to show them how it’s supposed to be done. Sometimes priests will even thank you for it.
 
Phillip_Rolfes said:
It’s understandable. Nearly all non-Eastern Catholics (the Roman Catholics tend to be the worst) do it, thus prolonging the confusion. 😛
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Amen, Mr. Beadsman Extrordinaire! After seeing your work I’m with Alex.
 
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