Eastern Orthodox Catholic communion in Roman Church

[anthony_kotecki]

Can a Eastern Orthodox Catholic recieve communion
in a Latin Rite Cathoilc Church?

           Thanks for your help!

              Anthony Kotecki

 

[Badaliyyah]

Can a Eastern Orthodox Catholic recieve communion
in a Latin Rite Cathoilc Church?

           Thanks for your help!

              Anthony Kotecki

I am not sure whether you mean Eastern Catholics or members of the Orthodox Church. Whichever the case, the answer is yes.

With Eastern Catholics this is not a big deal. All the Churches are in communion with one another.

With an Orthodox Christian this may well be a bigger deal. From the Catholic standpoint, an Orthodox Christian is welcome to commune as long as they are in good standing (i.e., have gone to confession). But the problem is going to come from the Orthodox side, where one may face sanction after communing as we saw recently in the case of the (Romanian??) Orthodox bishop.

I am sure others can give more details.

salaam.

 

[HolyNameOfJesus]

Can a Eastern Orthodox Catholic recieve communion in a Latin Rite Cathoilc Church?

If an Eastern Christian is a member of a Church which is in communion with the Bishop of Rome (making him an “Eastern Catholic”), then he may receive Holy Communion – and the other Sacraments too, generally – in the Roman (Latin rite) Church, either as offered during Holy Mass or in other contexts such as a Communion service. It would be important for him to have made a good sacramental confession of any serious sins on his conscience before receiving the blessed Eucharist, as is the case for any Catholic.

Also, Roman Catholics may licitly receive the Sacraments in any of the eight rites which are in use among the 20 something sister churches which together, in communion with the Bishop of Rome, make up the one Catholic Church.

 

[Peter_J]

Most Roman Catholic parishes have the following somewhere in their missalette:

**For our fellow Christians **

We welcome our fellow Christians to this celebration of the Eucharist as our brothers and sisters. We pray that our common baptism and the action of the Holy Spirit in this Eucharist will draw us closer to one another and begin to dispel the sad divisions which separate us. We pray that these will lessen and finally disappear, in keeping with Christ’s prayer for us “that they may all be one” (Jn 17:21).

Because Catholics believe that the celebration of the Eucharist is a sign of the reality of the oneness of faith, life, and worship, members of those churches with whom we are not yet fully united are ordinarily not admitted to Holy Communion. Eucharistic sharing in exceptional circumstances by other Christians requires permission according to the directives of the diocesan bishop and the provisions of canon law (canon 844 § 4). Members of the Orthodox Churches, the Assyrian Church of the East, and the Polish National Catholic Church are urged to respect the discipline of their own Churches. According to Roman Catholic discipline, the Code of Canon Law does not object to the reception of communion by Christians of these Churches (canon 844 § 3).

 

[wynd]

To summarize:

1. According to the Orthodox church: no.
2. According to the Catholic church, yes (as long as the Orthodox Christian has the permission of his bishop – see #1).

 

[chenhb]

Thank you , people here are very kind.

 

[kaygee]

Most Roman Catholic parishes have the following somewhere in their missalette:

Because Catholics believe that the celebration of the Eucharist is a sign of the reality of the oneness of faith, life, and worship, members of those churches with whom we are not yet fully united are ordinarily not admitted to Holy Communion.

Perhaps the above should be more clearly worded to make it absolutely clear that Eastern Catholics (Melkite, Byzantine, etc.) are admitted to Holy Communion . . . .

 

[wynd]

Perhaps the above should be more clearly worded to make it absolutely clear that Eastern Catholics (Melkite, Byzantine, etc.) are admitted to Holy Communion . . . .

Don’t they fall under the “For Catholics” section?

 

[Aramis]

Don’t they fall under the “For Catholics” section?

Many Romans have no clue there are other Rites in the Catholic Church, let alone the sui iuris churches…

One lady I wanted to date stopped taking my calls when she found out I was in the one byzantine parish in the state. She had no knowledge, and wouldn’t believe me that it was in union with Rome. And she would not date “non-catholics”… (which to her meant non-latins.)

My KofC council is concerned because several members likewise are not well taught about the universality of the church, and thought I’d gone Orthodox…

 

[ASimpleSinner]

Perhaps the above should be more clearly worded to make it absolutely clear that Eastern Catholics (Melkite, Byzantine, etc.) are admitted to Holy Communion . . . .

I think it is rather clear to those of us who are Eastern Catholics… And if there is a question, going to the back of a misallete is probably not the place most folks would go to solve the problem.

It would, I suppose, be useful in helping Latins understand that there are non-Latin Catholics out there…