Orthodox sacraments

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Can an Orthodox receive the sacraments in a Catholic Church?
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Basically under the same conditions yes. There are some I forget which that can at all time but are stated to follow the traditions of their church.
 
bacon_man said:
Makes sense, seems sorta trivial, what do you think would need to happen for the two churches to re-unify?
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Honestly? Global, consistent persecution of christians of all stripes. Short of that, we’re ALL too fond of bickering and too full of pride to pull it off. 😦 Makes it likely, IMO, that we WILL in fact see the faith reduced to that level someday. God is sneaky that way and is prone to using weakness to show his strength. 👍
 
This reminds me of a funny story regarding the permissions granted by the individual churches. 😃

My godmother once told me that when she converted she took her mother to an Orthodox Church for the first time. Her mother actually went up to take communion, and when the priest quickly figured out she wasn’t Orthodox, he turned her down.

As she walked back, she said in a flabbergasted manner, “But…the pope said I could!”

“The pope may have said it,” said my godmother, but what did the Orthodox say?"
 
Byzantine_Wolf said:
This reminds me of a funny story regarding the permissions granted by the individual churches. 😃

My godmother once told me that when she converted she took her mother to an Orthodox Church for the first time. Her mother actually went up to take communion, and when the priest quickly figured out she wasn’t Orthodox, he turned her down.

As she walked back, she said in a flabbergasted manner, “But…the pope said I could!”

“The pope may have said it,” said my godmother, but what did the Orthodox say?"
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That is funny!

I certainly hope that your godmother’s mom recovered from the incident, it must have been confusing/frustrating to her.

But don’t leave us hanging, what’s the rest of the story, did she remain Catholic or did she become Orthodox? Also, who was she more upset with in the end? The pope who mislead her in this matter or the priest who turned her down? 🙂
 
SingleMomMonica said:
That is funny!

I certainly hope that your godmother’s mom recovered from the incident, it must have been confusing/frustrating to her.

But don’t leave us hanging, what’s the rest of the story, did she remain Catholic or did she become Orthodox? Also, who was she more upset with in the end? The pope who mislead her in this matter or the priest who turned her down? 🙂
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She’s OK - they’re all good spirited, so no offense was taken 😃 But she has remained Catholic, far as I know.

On a related note, I had a similar instance with a girl who goes to a Roman Catholic church down the street from my own church here in Savannah. She told me that the Orthodox could take communion. I quickly corrected her, saying I couldn’t take communion at her church and she couldn’t take communion at me. Again, she seemed flabbergasted, saying, “But the priest told me they could.” Her priest most likely got it from the same source as my godmother’s mother 😃

I heard about one nasty incident that happened at my church, long before I arrived however. Apparently this woman came to visit our church - one who clearly wasn’t Orthodox - and started heading up to take communion. Our presbytera walked up and explained, very gently, that the woman couldn’t take communion. The woman said in an angry voice, “I didn’t know Jesus was Greek!” and stormed out. They never saw her again. 🤷
 
Syriac and Malankara Orthodox Christians are allowed by their own Church to receive in Catholic Churches. In the Holy Land there is often intercommunion among the Melkite Catholic and Antiochian Orthodox as well. (side note that Syriac and Malankara Orthodox are Oriental Orthodox, not Eastern Orthodox).
 
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