That is incorrect. We are not to receive more than twice per day, except in the case of Viaticum, in danger of death. See Canon 917:
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Woah dude, don’t go giving bad advice on your ignorance, get educated.
Going once is really the ideal, at least if one follows traditional Eastern liturgics. There is nothing to prevent you from going to two liturgies and communing at both, I suppose, but according to tradition, one liturgy is considered ideal, to the point that if a second liturgy is to be performed in an Orthodox parish, it must be done on a different altar and celebrated by a different priest. This is one of the unusual cases you will encounter as an Eastern Catholic where what you are permitted to do is not completely consistent with your patrimony. In cases like this, it really is up to you to decide if it ultimately would be more beneficial to do what is permissible or to follow traditions which are not binding canonically. I personally would only go to one, and then perhaps pray later in the context of doing one of the canonical hours at home.
That’s a good point. In perusing the Code of Canons of Oriental Churches (canons 698-717 deal with the Eucharist), I don’t see any mention of the number of times one can receive the Eucharist one way or the other.
The closest might be Canon 881.3, which encourages frequent, even daily reception. This might be interpreted as “not more frequently”, but, as ever: I Am Not A Canon Lawyer.
I would think that’s a very legitimate interpretation.
As [post=11749614]Cavaradossi[/post] alluded earlier, daily Mass (or DL or whichever name one wants to use) is not traditional in the East and Orient, at least not outside of monastic houses. On Sundays and Feast Days and other days as may be designated by traditional observance, (and this applies to Presanctified Liturgy as well), there is one, and even in larger communities where there may be multiple churches, the timing would generally be similar so there really wouldn’t have been any “church hopping” as is so often seen in the West these days.There was a time in my parish (Byzantine) when we had two Divine Liturgies each Sunday morning using a different antimension for each, same priest. We also had a shortage of servers, so when I (rarely) served at both, I also received twice.
I take this to mean the Church is telling us more than one reception per day has limited benefits, unlike Mass attendance. But I could be wrong.
And there exists, in eastern Catholic churches, aliturgical days, so one would not receive on those days because there is neither Divine Liturgy nor Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts celebrated.
This is why I framed my post merely as a suggestion. It is clearly permissible that one receive twice a day, but when it is not quite in line with one’s patrimony (in this case, the Coptic tradition, which to my knowledge discourages people from communing twice), the issue of which observance will benefit one more must ultimately be approached with discernment or be left to the discernment of one’s spiritual father, if he should have one. I myself have no spiritual authority to tell coptsoldier whether he should only commune once or twice, but rather I can only suggest to him what I might do in his situation.
