Orthodox went to Catholic confession

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They didn’t receive Sacred Mysteries, they received Absolution through the Sacrament of Confession. The Sacred Mysteries is the Sacrifice of the Mass. The Orthodox near me go so far as to send their kids to Catholic schools, even those very much involved with their parishes.
 
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orthodoxwiki.org/Holy_Mysteries

In the Orthodox Tradition we say Holy/Sacred Mysteries. You use the term Sacraments.

Going to a Catholic School is not the same as receiving Confession or Holy Communion.
 
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No, it’s only the ingraining of beliefs into the future generations of your Orthodox.
 
What beliefs? I don’t quite follow. Are you saying our children are being proselytized?
 
Wouldn’t anyone be who attends a Catholic school? If not I’m not sure what the raison d’etre of the school is.
 
Actually, An1OrthodoxChristian is correct. Even before the Great Schism, these terms were used and at the Eccumenical councils the terms Sacred Mysteries and Sacraments were equivocated. The terms actually come from the same word, it is just that the Eastern Churches preserved the original Greek terms and the Roman Churches came to the word through Latin. In Latin, ‘Sacramentum’ literally means ‘Mystery’.

As to the Confession being valid and licit, the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church lifted the mutual excommunications between them in 1965. Since then, both Churches consider the ordinations of the other’s bishops, priests, and deacons valid; the Sacraments (Sacred Mysteries) of the other valid and licit as pertaining to their own rite and tradition; and the faithful members of the Churches validly able to receive the sacraments of the other Church in times of need when there is no ability to receive them in their own Church.

I am not commenting on the Catholic School topic. I’m staying out of that discussion.
 
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I was under the impression that sort of thing was frowned upon these days.
 
I’m referring more to the students’ presence in the environment as it should be at a Catholic school more than anything direct along those lines occurring. Strange times at any rate for it to be frowned upon that the Catholic faith might rub off on the students attending a Catholic school.
 
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We generally don’t speak in terms of “validity.” We use it in our dialogues with you, but it is foreign to our Tradition. Traditionally, we view “Sacraments” done outside the Church as being devoid of Grace.

For example, Baptism. Non-Orthodox misunderstand this. Some jurisdictions baptize heterodox Christians, some just chrismate.

Outsiders see this as us accepting the “validity” of the heterodox baptism. Actually, we don’t. The heterodox baptism is seen as an “empty vessel” having the proper “form.” The Chrismation “fills” the vessel and the baptism is retroactively “made valid” to use your term. Other jurisdictions see this as absurd and baptize everyone. Heterodox baptisms are universally seen as deficient at best, the debate among us is how to correct the situation.

When it comes to everything else, we maintain a polite agnosticism on the subject.

To quote Met. Kallistos of Diokletia: “ We know where the Church is. We don’t know where it isn’t.”
 
I don’t frown upon it. I myself would not send my children to a Catholic school for the very reason you are talking about.
 
That’s alright… I wouldn’t send mine to most Catholic schools either. In complete honesty, in my experience the Catholic faith failed to rub off on many of those in attendance.
 
Was your failure to mention that you are an Eastern Orthodox deliberate or an oversight?
 
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