Eastern orthodox view of an object blessed by a catholic priest?

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Anyone can tell me, whats the view of an orthodox eastern christian of the blessing of a cross by a catholic priest. Do they think is valid or that have some kind of effect?

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As far as I know, the Orthodox don’t consider anything done by Catholics to be legitimate.
 
Miguel25 said:
Anyone can tell me, whats the view of an orthodox eastern christian of the blessing of a cross by a catholic priest. Do they think is valid or that have some kind of effect?

Ty blessings from Spain
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That all depends on the individual Orthodox person. There’s much diversity in Orthodoxy.

Most (but not all) of them do regard Catholic ordinations as valid.
 
Who cares what they think?

Catholics should remember that the Roman Church possesses the fullness of Truth. The Church was founded on Peter. Pope Francis possesses the Keys.

The Orthodox separated from Peter in 1054. They were wrong. They have some truth but we must never forget that the Roman Church is supreme.
 
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Anyone can tell me, whats the view of an orthodox eastern christian of the blessing of a cross by a catholic priest.
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The opinion on this varies from individual to individual.

You can certainly ask the Eastern Orthodox individual you are wondering about.
 
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Do they think is valid or that have some kind of effect
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The Orthodox don’t use the term “valid.”

They wouldn’t say whether it has any effect or not - they would say “we don’t know.”
 
Mileage varies. My Orthodox cousin acknowledges the Catholic priesthood. There’s no single Orthodox answer.
 
This is quite inconsistent with current Roman Catholic teaching (aside from the historical error).

hawk
 
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This is quite inconsistent with current Roman Catholic teaching (aside from the historical error)
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Explain how it’s inconsistent.

The Church was founded on Peter.
Peter was the first Bishop of Rome.
Peter’s successors possess universal authority.
This is “current Roman teaching.”
 
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Explain how it’s inconsistent.
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The belittling/dismissal of "who cares what they think’? Of those the Church teaches need only to be in union to be in union? That the church teaches have valid clergy and Sacraments? That the paste few popes seriously consult with?

And historically, it was the Papal legate, not the Orthodox, who (wrongfully) initiated the split–although the split didn’t really take place for another couple of hundred years.

hawk
 
The blessing of objects. Due to the scarcity of Catholic priests I could not even get to confession, let alone schedule my home to be blessed. I turned to a holy, Orthodox priest. My home was blessed and I felt it immediately. It is from this priest that I get my holy water. So, in my personal experience, the Orthodox would be right in saying an object blessed by a Catholic priest is of no effect, has some basis.
 
Just FYI, in small eastern European villages, with both an orthodox and catholic church, it is not rare for the wife of each to confess to the other, and her own husband to grant absolution . . .

hawk
 
Casilda said:
The Catholic priests are married!?!
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Of course; that is the norm in almost every Apostolic church, the Roman church being the exception (and I think the Maronites have now done it, but they are the most latinized).

For the other Catholic churches, and outside of the US, marriage is the norm, not the exception, and always has been.

There is a seminary in Slovenia (I think it’s Solvenia) which is exporting priests to EC churches outside of the area, as it is actually producing more than they can use locally. My eparchy has one, and I believe there is at least one other in one of the other parches of my church (Pittsburgh Metropolia).

hawk
 
The Maronite distinction is that priests still can not marry, but men already married can be ordained a priest. Is that true in all of Catholicism?
 
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The Maronite distinction is that priests still can not marry, but men already married can be ordained a priest. Is that true in all of Catholicism?
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I believe all of Eastern Catholicism, yes.

Even though the Maronites still have it on paper, I believe, I think married priests are the exception for them today. For the rest, unmarried are the exception (outside of the Americas)

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