Question about ACoE and Chaldean Catholic Church

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Actually two questions. First, is anyone here a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church or the Assyrian Church of the East?

Second, does anyone have any thoughts about the agreements between the two Churches regarding the reception of Holy Communion:
  1. When necessity requires, Assyrian faithful are permitted to participate and to receive Holy Communion in a Chaldean celebration of the Holy Eucharist; in the same way, Chaldean faithful for whom it is physically or morally impossible to approach a Catholic minister, are permitted to participate and to receive Holy Communion in an Assyrian celebration of the Holy Eucharist.
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  1. In both cases, Assyrian and Chaldean ministers celebrate the Holy Eucharist according to the liturgical prescriptions and customs of their own tradition.
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  1. When Chaldean faithful are participating in an Assyrian celebration of the Holy Eucharist, the Assyrian minister is warmly invited to insert the words of the Institution in the Anaphora of Addai and Mari, as allowed by the Holy Synod of the Assyrian Church of the East.
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  1. The above considerations on the use of the Anaphora of Addai and Mari and the present guidelines for admission to the Eucharist, are intended exclusively in relation to the Eucharistic celebration and admission to the Eucharist of the faithful from the Chaldean Church and the Assyrian Church of the East, in view of the pastoral necessity and ecumenical context mentioned above.
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Real quick, is the ACoE still Nestorian? I know they don’t prefer that term…
 
John_of_Patmos said:
Real quick, is the ACoE still Nestorian? I know they don’t prefer that term…
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Well, the RCC said that they had the same christology and the division is due to misunderstanding. So if the ACoE is Nestorian the RCC is as well 😛

vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/documents/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_11111994_assyrian-church_en.html
Whatever our Christological divergences have been, we experience ourselves united today in the confession of the same faith in the Son of God who became man so that we might become children of God by his grace. We wish from now on to witness together to this faith in the One who is the Way, the Truth and the Life, proclaiming it in appropriate ways to our contemporaries, so that the world may believe in the Gospel of salvation.
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I’m Chaldean and intercommunion does exist, and due to ACoE Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV, relations between the churches became dramatically better in the 1990s.

There are quite a few documents establishing the ecumenical work done in the past two decades between the Catholic Church and the ACoE at this link
prounione.urbe.it/dia-int/ac-rc/e_ac-rc-info.html

The Assyrian Church should not be regarded as Nestorian due to its teaching of Mar Babai the Great: that Christ has two qnome (natures) united in one parsopa (person). This teaching is regarded as equivalent to the Christology of the Third Ecumenical Council.
 
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