Eastern Rite Catholics receiving communion? (Edited title)

[Kelli_Gregori]

I was at mass this morning and noticed that a woman had taken the Host from the eucharistic minister. She then proceeded to another eucharistic minister to partake of the Blood. The EM noticed that she still had the host in her hand and questioned her about it. I couldn’t hear the conversation but eventually, she consumed the Eucharist and Wine.

I mentioned it to a fellow parishioner after mass and she said that perhaps it was some one who practices the eastern rite of catholicism and was intending to dip the Host into the Wine before consuming it.

Is it okay for an eastern rite catholic to receive communion in the Roman Catholic Church and vice-a-versa?

 

[jkarp]

I was at mass this morning and noticed that a woman had taken the Host from the eucharistic minister. She then proceeded to another eucharistic minister to partake of the Blood. The EM noticed that she still had the host in her hand and questioned her about it. I couldn’t hear the conversation but eventually, she consumed the Eucharist and Wine.

I mentioned it to a fellow parishioner after mass and she said that perhaps it was some one who practices the eastern rite of catholicism and was intending to dip the Host into the Wine before consuming it.

Is it okay for an eastern rite catholic to receive communion in the Roman Catholic Church and vice-a-versa?

I may be wrong but I believe the short answer is we (Roman) say yes, they (Orthodox) say no. That is an Orthodox Catholic is permitted to receive at a Roman Catholic Church but the reciprocal is not necessarily true.

Bear in mind, there is a difference between an Eastern (Byzantine) Rite Catholic and an Orthodox Catholic. There is a Byzantine Rite that is in full communion with the Holy See.

Again, I don’t have any supporting documentation and could very well could be wrong on this; but this is my understanding.

 

[SuscipeMeDomine]

I may be wrong but I believe the short answer is we (Roman) say yes, they (Orthodox) say no. That is an Orthodox Catholic is permitted to receive at a Roman Catholic Church but the reciprocal is not necessarily true.

There is no such thing as an Orthodox Catholic. There are Catholics, including Eastern Catholics, and there are the Orthodox (who are not Catholic of any kind).

Catholics can receive communion in all rites of the Catholic church.

The Catholic church allows the Orthodox to receive communion, but they don’t allow their people to receive in a Catholic church. (Similar to Protestant communities that would allow Catholics to receive communion, but the Catholic church doesn’t permit it.)

Eastern Catholics may well receive by intinction in their churches, but people aren’t allowed to “self intinct.” In other words, the extraordinary minister was correct in not allowing the communicant to dip the host into the Precious Blood.

 

[DavidFilmer]

perhaps it was some one who practices the eastern rite of catholicism and was intending to dip the Host into the Wine before consuming it.

I once visited a (Latin Rite) parish in my own diocese where the practice of the laity was to receive the Host in the hand and then dip in into the Chalice themselves and consume it (which might be called “intinction” if it was done properly).

However, this manner of Reception violates the Church proscription against self-communion (see GIRM 287). Yet, EVERYBODY at this particular Praish (that I saw) exercised this practice. Amazing, but true.

Maybe this person whom you observed was also from such a parish and was unaware of the proscriptions against this behavior.

 

[Br.Rich_SFO]

I was at mass this morning and noticed that a woman had taken the Host from the eucharistic minister. She then proceeded to another eucharistic minister to partake of the Blood. The EM noticed that she still had the host in her hand and questioned her about it. I couldn’t hear the conversation but eventually, she consumed the Eucharist and Wine.

I mentioned it to a fellow parishioner after mass and she said that perhaps it was some one who practices the eastern rite of catholicism and was intending to dip the Host into the Wine before consuming it.

Is it okay for an eastern rite catholic to receive communion in the Roman Catholic Church and vice-a-versa?

All Catholics (Eastern or Latin) are welcome to receive in any Catholic church (Eastern or Latin). However Eastern Catholics do not practice self-intinction.

 

[Br.Rich_SFO]

I may be wrong but I believe the short answer is we (Roman) say yes, they (Orthodox) say no. That is an Orthodox Catholic is permitted to receive at a Roman Catholic Church but the reciprocal is not necessarily true.

Bear in mind, there is a difference between an Eastern (Byzantine) Rite Catholic and an Orthodox Catholic. There is a Byzantine Rite that is in full communion with the Holy See.

Again, I don’t have any supporting documentation and could very well could be wrong on this; but this is my understanding.

There are 4 comon liturgical Rites used in the Eastern Catholic Chucrh, not all Eastern Catholics use the Byzantine Rite.

 

[jkarp]

There are 4 comon liturgical Rites used in the Eastern Catholic Chucrh, not all Eastern Catholics use the Byzantine Rite.

Thanks for the info; are these the churches to which I was referring that are in full communion with Rome (I know we’re getting a tad off topic - I’m not trying to hijack the thread)?

 

[cthulhubryan]

Eastern Catholics may well receive by intinction in their churches, but people aren’t allowed to “self intinct.” In other words, the extraordinary minister was correct in not allowing the communicant to dip the host into the Precious Blood.

So how would it work? Would the communicant give the host to the extraordinary minister or would the communicant get the intincted (if that is a word) from the minister?

 

[SuscipeMeDomine]

So how would it work? Would the communicant give the host to the extraordinary minister or would the communicant get the intincted (if that is a word) from the minister?

If communion were offered by intinction it would be done that way initially. In other words, people would approach the priest who would dip the host and place it on the tongue of the communicant.

Once you receive the host you can’t take it to the minister with the cup, you must consume it.

 

[puzzleannie]

So how would it work? Would the communicant give the host to the extraordinary minister or would the communicant get the intincted (if that is a word) from the minister?

only the priest, not any other minister, may offer communion by intinction, so the EMHC in OP’s story acted properly, in instructing the communicant to consume the host before taking the precious Blood.

 

[Br.Rich_SFO]

Thanks for the info; are these the churches to which I was referring that are in full communion with Rome (I know we’re getting a tad off topic - I’m not trying to hijack the thread)?

Yes.

 

[jkarp]

Yes.

Awesome, thanks for straightening me out!

 

[m134e5]

I was at mass this morning and noticed that a woman had taken the Host from the eucharistic minister. She then proceeded to another eucharistic minister to partake of the Blood. The EM noticed that she still had the host in her hand and questioned her about it. I couldn’t hear the conversation but eventually, she consumed the Eucharist and Wine.

I mentioned it to a fellow parishioner after mass and she said that perhaps it was some one who practices the eastern rite of catholicism and was intending to dip the Host into the Wine before consuming it.

Is it okay for an eastern rite catholic to receive communion in the Roman Catholic Church and vice-a-versa?

It’s fine for Catholics of any Rite to receive communion at the liturgies of any Rite (as long as they are Catholic, and so is the Rite). They must do so, however, in the fashion appropriate for the respective rite.

This doesn’t sound like anyone from another Rite- it sounds like a Latin-Rite Catholic who just happened to be holding on to the Host for some reason.

 

[skeyes]

It happens from time to time when I am EMHC. I simply stop the person and tell them they cannot do this. Some are surprised because they have never been stopped before. I stick to my guns though and don’t allow it to happen when I see it. Proper formation for EMHC would certainly go a long way in stopping these occassions of self communication.
In Jesus,
Stan