Can an Eastern Catholic fulfill his Sunday obligation at an Orthodox DL?

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My understanding regarding Canon Law is that if a rule is not specifically abrogated in later editions (eg: women veiling from 1917 to 1983) then the former rule stands…
Hello AnnAsher,

Specific (if by this you mean explicitly stated in regard to each and every individual law) abrogation is not the only way the law changes. The whole 1917 Code was abrogated by means of one sentence in the 1983 Code.

Regarding the topic of the thread, if you are attending a “Divine Liturgy” that is a Catholic Rite, you fulfill your obligation and you can receive Communion.

Dan
 
Truth is, some EO churches state they don’t accept catholic orders as valid, including many primates of EO churches. Including the Russian Orthodox; this is a turn about from their prior view.

Some do. Others, like the OCA, officially say “We are not certain” and trust in economia and supplied jurisdiction when they accept Catholic clerics by vesting, and not all clerics are accepted by vesting even then. (It’s the receiving bishop’s call.)

The Catholic position is that all Canonical EO orders are valid, and so are many non-canonical EO orders, like the Ukrainian Orthodox - Kyiv Patriarchate’s…

The Orthodox posters here, however, tend towards the “don’t” side, and its never been corporately decided, in part, because the EO are a collection of independent churches on the same path as each other, not a united corporate body, and in part because, except for a pan-orthodox council there is no person nor group that can definitively define the status of Catholics in a binding manner, and in part because no particular body within Orthodoxy seems to want to make that definition an issue for a council to be called.👍

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