Does attending an Eastern Orthodox Liturgy count as the obligation for Sundays?

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The Eastern Orthodox Church has been fascinating to me for a while even though I know very much about it. This comes mainly from my long-standing interest in the history of the Byzantines. And lately, I’ve had some interest in attending an Eastern Orthodox Liturgy. Would I still need to attend a Sunday Mass to meet the obligation for Sundays?

For Eastern Orthodox members who have also been to a Catholic Mass at some point, how different are they?
 
You posted in the Eastern Catholicism category. There’s a difference between Eastern Catholics and Eastern Orthodox.

If you attend an Eastern Catholic liturgy, you will have met your Sunday obligation. In addition, you can receive communion.

If you attend an Eastern Orthodox liturgy, you will not have met your Sunday obligation. While the Catholic Church would allow you to receive communion, the Orthodox will likely not do so.
 
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The Eastern Catholic liturgies are very close to those of the Eastern Orthodox. EC liturgies not only do count, but Roman Catholics can receive communion there, although not at EO liturgies as a general rule.
 
If there is no Roman Catholic Church around then yes it counts as a mass. The Eastern Catholic Orthodox was never considered a schism by the Catholic Church although they did have other Canical differences. Like the priest we’re allowed to get married and other differences. I posted a site that explains EWTN

http://www.ewtn.com/library/liturgy/zlitur278.htm

Now the Eastern Orthodox they don’t recognize the Pope as successor of Peter. They also don’t recognize the filioque ( in the Nicene Creed " Spirit proceeds from the father and the son" ). We can receive communion from Eastern Orthodox because they have the seven sacraments and they are doctrinally close to us.

Here is another site that Trent horn explains this issue.


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If there is no Roman Catholic Church around then yes it counts as a mass.
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Source, please.

All I can find states something similar to this:

http://www.ewtn.com/library/liturgy/zlitur486.htm
Otherwise, a Catholic does not fulfill his Sunday Obligation attending an Orthodox celebration.

Should a Catholic be in a situation where there is no Catholic Mass available, the Sunday obligation ceases, since nobody is obliged to do the impossible. As we have seen above in Canon 1248.2, the Church highly recommends some alternative form of sanctification of the feast such as a celebration of the Word. This, however, is a recommendation and not an obligation.

Should a Catholic find himself in a situation where there was no Catholic Mass but there was an Orthodox celebration, then the Catholic could attend this celebration as an alternative means of sanctifying the feast, although not in fulfillment of the Sunday precept.
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It is the Eastern Catholic Orthodox Mass that counts for Sundays and Holy days of obligation. The Roman Catholic Church never separated from the Eastern Catholic Orthodox. It was the schism of 1054 of the Eastern Orthodox that we are separate from and we can receive the Eucharist but it doesn’t count for a Sunday mass or holy day of obligation. We still have to go to the Roman Catholic Church to receive Eucharist.

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There is no “Eastern Catholic Orthodox.” There is Eastern Catholic – which is Catholic – and Eastern Orthodox – which is not Catholic. Attending the liturgy in an Eastern Catholic church fills one’s Sunday obligation. Attending the liturgy at an Eastern Orthodox church does not.

Roman Catholics can receive communion at Eastern Catholic churches.
 
I miss spoke and sorry for saying Eastern Catholic Orthodox don’t know what I was thinking I know it’s eastern Catholic and that they have other traditions but we are united.
 
In_Hoc_Signo312 said:
The Eastern Orthodox Church has been fascinating to me for a while even though I know very much about it. This comes mainly from my long-standing interest in the history of the Byzantines. And lately, I’ve had some interest in attending an Eastern Orthodox Liturgy. Would I still need to attend a Sunday Mass to meet the obligation for Sundays?

For Eastern Orthodox members who have also been to a Catholic Mass at some point, how different are they?
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In the New Commentary of the Code of Canon Law, it refers to DIRECTORY FOR THE APPLICATION OF
PRINCIPLES AND NORMS ON ECUMENISM # 115. It states that this ability to fufill the mass oblication in an Orthodox liturgy was likely revoked earlier in the (Latin) 1983 CIC. References to 1983 CCEO and 1990 CIC are included. SC = Sacrosanctum Concillium.

In the DIRECTORY FOR THE APPLICATION OF PRINCIPLES AND NORMS ON ECUMENISM:
Since the celebration of the Eucharist on the Lord’s Day is the foundation and centre of the whole liturgical year,(120) Catholics—but those of Eastern Churches according to their own Law (121)—are obliged to attend Mass on that day and on days of precept. (122) It is not advisable therefore to organize ecumenical services on Sundays, and it must be remembered that even when Catholics participate in ecumenical services or in services of other Churches and ecclesial Communities, the obligation of participating at Mass on these days remains.
120 Cf. *SC, *n. 106.
121 Cf. *CCEO, *can. 881, 1; *CIC, *can. 1247.
122 Cf. *CIC, *can. 1247; *CCEO, *can. 881, 1.
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http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/p...993_principles-and-norms-on-ecumenism_en.html
 
My understanding has always been that if that if you find yourself in an area with no Catholic churches nearby on Sunday- including areas like the backwaters of Greece or Russia where there are Eastern Orthodox churches- the obligation to attend is lifted.

You can certainly attend a Greek Orthodox liturgy if you like, but there is no obligation to do so.
 
Not true at all.
Ortodoxy will allow you.
Atenting mass is full obligation.
As for me…prefer Latin Catholic,even though i was baptized in Orthodoxy (i dont remember) and know few.
Catholic church helped me knew better Orthodox chirch.Weird.
 
Orthodoxy will definitely NOT allow you to receive communion unless it very dire circumstances and/or with permission from the Bishop.
 
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This is not just about ecumenism. We are NOT in communion and have been for a long time. Unless that is settled, shared communion should not be the norm.
 
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Our priest says we have more in common then diferences
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You can say that about southern baptists as well- depending on what weight and importance you give the commonalities vs. the differences.
 
I have attended at least 3 liturgies, I don’t know? I think they weren’t Masses because it wasn’t Sunday just evening weekdays, in a Catholic Cathedral during a challenging year in my life. They all helped me. I also felt a pull back at my church but not in a conflicting manner. Like why am I away from my church apart from the fact that Catholics have chairs? I didn’t know. I still am not sure. But I will never forget the invisible wires that, for me, link Orthodox and Catholic church. Like if you go to a brother he will send you to another brother. I believe in what I felt and mentally saw. This being said about duty maybe one owes something to the church in which they are baptized.
Catholicism made me more patient and curious about my own church. So for me it is about private revelation. Orthodoxy requires patience both physical and spiritual. I am not saying it is too complicated just that for me it takes the extra effort. But it is fulfilling because it is… how can I put it… crazy and mystical enough for me to steer away from other ideas… other religions. And that is a challenge for me.
Fyi I think the obligation is to your own self and soul, not just a dour social obligation.
 
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