Can a Latin Rite Catholic be confirmed in an Eastern Rite Church?

[carefullytread]

Is it allowed generally? In special circumstances? Is it allowed, for some historical curiosity, is some of them, e.g. Maronite, but not others?

 

[1ke]

Could a Latin Rite Catholic be confirmed by a person in another Catholic rite with the proper faculties and permissions? Yes. Of course.

Catholic priests and bishops of eastern rite churches are Catholic. So therefore they can perform Catholic sacraments. And vice versa.

Matters of faculties and jurisdiction are outlined in canon law, by both the Eastern and Latin codes.

Would that make the person an Eastern Catholic? No.

 

[carefullytread]

the proper faculties and permissions?

What are the proper faculties and permissions in this case?

 

[1ke]

What are the proper faculties and permissions in this case?

and the Eastern Code:

Canon 696 - §1. All presbyters of the Eastern Churches can validly administer this sacrament either along with baptism or separately to all the Christian faithful of any Church sui iuris including the Latin Church.
§2. The Christian faithful of Eastern Churches validly receive this sacrament also from presbyters of the Latin Church, according to the faculties with which these are endowed.
§3. Any presbyter licitly administers this sacrament only to the Christian faithful of his own Church sui iuris; when it is a case of Christian faithful of other Churches sui iuris, he lawfully acts if they are his subjects, or those whom he lawfully baptizes in virtue of another title, or those who are in danger of death, and always with due regard for the agreements entered between the Churches sui iuris in this matter.

For Eastern Catholics who will receive the sacrament from a Latin presbyter the following apply:

vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P32.HTM

 

[powerofk]

and the Eastern Code:

Canon 696 - §1. All presbyters of the Eastern Churches can validly administer this sacrament either along with baptism or separately to all the Christian faithful of any Church sui iuris including the Latin Church.
§2. The Christian faithful of Eastern Churches validly receive this sacrament also from presbyters of the Latin Church, according to the faculties with which these are endowed.
§3. Any presbyter licitly administers this sacrament only to the Christian faithful of his own Church sui iuris; when it is a case of Christian faithful of other Churches sui iuris, he lawfully acts if they are his subjects, or those whom he lawfully baptizes in virtue of another title, or those who are in danger of death, and always with due regard for the agreements entered between the Churches sui iuris in this matter.

For Eastern Catholics who will receive the sacrament from a Latin presbyter the following apply:

vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P32.HTM

Thank you, 1ke. Thankfully, this makes sense, as in the West, the Eastern churches are quite rare (so rare, in fact, that many of us in the Latin church don’t even know that they even exist), and so Eastern Catholics would need to get their sacraments from somewhere. And, I would assume, in many parts of the Eastern sphere, particularly in Greece and the Middle East, Latin churches would probably be rarer than Eastern churches. And so a Latin Catholic visiting the area quite possibly would need to go to Divine Liturgy at an Eastern Catholic church to fulfill his/her Sunday obligation (and, if staying for an extended period of time, to receive other sacraments as well).

 

[kdbueno]

The rites of the church depends on ecclesiological differences.

 

[Vico]

Is it allowed generally? In special circumstances? Is it allowed, for some historical curiosity, is some of them, e.g. Maronite, but not others?

Latin Catholic uses the CIC. For confirmation:

Can. 882 The ordinary minister of confirmation is a bishop; a presbyter provided with this faculty in virtue of universal law or the special grant of the competent authority also confers this sacrament validly.

Can. 883 The following possess the faculty of administering confirmation by the law itself:

1/ within the boundaries of their jurisdiction, those who are equivalent in law to a diocesan bishop;

2/ as regards the person in question, the presbyter who by virtue of office or mandate of the diocesan bishop baptizes one who is no longer an infant or admits one already baptized into the full communion of the Catholic Church;

3/ as regards those who are in danger of death, the pastor or indeed any presbyter.

Can. 884 §1. The diocesan bishop is to administer confirmation personally or is to take care that another bishop administers it. If necessity requires it, he can grant the faculty to one or more specific presbyters, who are to administer this sacrament.

§2. For a grave cause the bishop and even the presbyter endowed with the faculty of confirming in virtue of the law or the special grant of the competent authority can in single cases also associate presbyters with themselves to administer the sacrament.

Can. 885 §1. The diocesan bishop is obliged to take care that the sacrament of confirmation is conferred on subjects who properly and reasonably seek it.

§2. A presbyter who possesses this faculty must use it for the sake of those in whose favor the faculty was granted.​

 

[angelic06]

Vico,

1ke has posted the relevant canons from the CCEO which permits an EC priest to validly chrismate even a Latin Catholic. Licity is something else entirely.

 

[Vico]

Vico,

1ke has posted the relevant canons from the CCEO which permits an EC priest to validly chrismate even a Latin Catholic. Licity is something else entirely.

I understand, but I was answering the question about illicitness which was “Is it allowed generally?”

 

[kdbueno]

The orientalism of truth is based on the primer evidence that the Eucharist sanctifies.

 

[Vico]

The orientalism of truth is based on the primer evidence that the Eucharist sanctifies.

It certainly increases grace for those that have grace already. Before communion the priest says: “Holy Gifts for Holy People”.

We also pray:

May the partaking of your Holy Mysteries, O Lord, be not for my judgment or condemnation, but for the healing of soul and body.

 

[Vico]

Is it allowed generally? In special circumstances? Is it allowed, for some historical curiosity, is some of them, e.g. Maronite, but not others?

I want to add something else from Congregation for the Eastern Churches.

APPLYING THE LITURGICAL PRESCRIPTIONS OF THE CODE OF CANONS OF THE EASTERN CHURCHES
Congregation for the Eastern Churches
6 January 1996

1. The minister of Chrismation

Can. 694 affirms that “according to the tradition of the Eastern Churches, Chrismation with holy Myron is administered by a presbyter either in conjunction with baptism or separately,” and can. 696 § 1 specifies that “all presbyters of the Eastern Churches can validly administer this sacrament either along with baptism or separately to all the Christian faithful of any Church including the Latin Church.”

Eastern presbyters are to use their faculty of chrismating the Latin faithful with great discretion and contacting, as much as possible, the competent Hierarchs of that Church. In fact, Confirmation in the Latin Church is usually administered to children separately and at the end of a developed catechesis which in itself is a part of the Christian Initiation. To chrismate the Latin faithful who have not received this formation risks damaging the organic whole of the Christian Initiation used in the Latin Church.

The Eastern practice differentiates itself from the Latin one, expressed in can. 882 of the Code of Canon Law which declares that “the ordinary minister of Confirmation is the bishop,” even if a presbyter can administer it when he is provided this faculty “by virtue of either the common law or a special concession of competent authority.” Born under different circumstances, the Latin legislation gives emphasis to the principle, pronounced by Ignatius of Antioch, of the necessary unity of the Church and of the presbytery around the Bishop.[50] In the Eastern tradition this aspect is represented by the consecration of the holy Myron which is reserved to only the Bishop or, according to the norms of the particular law, also to only the Patriarch,[51] who celebrates this consecration with great solemnity. Such attribution to the Patriarch indicates the bond of communion existing, beyond every individual eparchy, within the Churches . May these ancient traditions, in this regard, be faithfully preserved.

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