Receiving Communion within the Orthodox church?

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I remember when a good sister of the IHM who took our 8th grade class to mass at St Mary’s Byzantine church. We all took communion including the Sister. She addressed the priest as father. This took place back in 1966.

Byzantine Catholic, by definition, is NOT the same as Orthodox, despite the many and deep similarities.
 
I didn’t know that. I would be interested in knowing the difference(s).
 
I remember when a good sister of the IHM who took our 8th grade class to mass at St Mary’s Byzantine church. We all took communion including the Sister. She addressed the priest as father. This took place back in 1966.

Byzantine Catholic, by definition, is NOT the same as Orthodox, despite the many and deep similarities.

** I didn’t know that. I would be interested in knowing the difference(s).**

Have you been laboring under the impression all these 40+ years that Byzantine Catholic and Orthodox were the same?

The whole purpose of taking you to a Byzantine Catholic liturgy was to teach you that the Latin Rite was NOT the sum total of the Catholic Church, or the only liturgical tradition therein.

For one thing, Eastern Catholics are in communion with the Pope. Orthodox are not.
 
Cluny said:
I remember when a good sister of the IHM who took our 8th grade class to mass at St Mary’s Byzantine church. We all took communion including the Sister. She addressed the priest as father. This took place back in 1966.

Byzantine Catholic, by definition, is NOT the same as Orthodox, despite the many and deep similarities.

** I didn’t know that. I would be interested in knowing the difference(s).**

Have you been laboring under the impression all these 40+ years that Byzantine Catholic and Orthodox were the same?

The whole purpose of taking you to a Byzantine Catholic liturgy was to teach you that the Latin Rite was NOT the sum total of the Catholic Church, or the only liturgical tradition therein.

For one thing, Eastern Catholics are in communion with the Pope. Orthodox are not.
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I’m a little sceptical here. The following is a quote from the New Advent web site.
"Orthodox Church
The technical name for the body of Christians who use the Byzantine Rite in various languages and are in union with the Patriarch of Constantinople but in schism with the Pope of Rome. The epithet Orthodox (orthodoxos), meaning “right believer”, is, naturally, claimed by people of every religion. It is almost exactly a Greek form of the official title of the chief enemies of the Greeks, i.e. the Moslems (mu’min, fidelis). The Monophysite Armenians called themselves ughapar, meaning exactly the same thing. "

newadvent.org/cathen/11329a.htm
 
I found the church on-line it’s:
St. Mary Catholic Church
Romanian Byzantine Rite
Brings back memories…I grew up right around the corner…I recall as a small boy being very confused because another boy at school told me his dad was a Catholic priest there. I remember asking my ma about it, but I don’t think she knew anything about it either. It’s good to see the church os still there, and looks pretty much like it did in the 60’s.
 
The technical name for the body of Christians who use the Byzantine Rite in various languages and are in union with the Patriarch of Constantinople but in schism with the Pope of Rome.

Most non-Orthodox sources are inaccurate when they talk about Orthodoxy. This is one example.

Many Orthodox using the Byzantine liturgy are NOT in communion (much less admitting the jurisdiction) of the Patriarch of Constantinople.
 
wait a second, now I’m a bit confused.:confused:
If an Orthodox (since they are by their own churches rules not permitted to recieve Catholic communion) recievs communion in a Catholic church is the Orthodox essentially now a “Catholic” and no longer an “Orthodox”?
 
greggy53 said:
I found the church on-line it’s:
St. Mary Catholic Church
Romanian Byzantine Rite
Brings back memories…I grew up right around the corner…I recall as a small boy being very confused because another boy at school told me his dad was a Catholic priest there. I remember asking my ma about it, but I don’t think she knew anything about it either. It’s good to see the church os still there, and looks pretty much like it did in the 60’s.
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It’s a Catholic Church. Not an Orthodox Church. They have some different disciplines but they are in union with Rome.

ewtn.com/expert/answers/catholic_rites_and_churches.htm
 
Shlomo Lkhoolkhoon,

One of the things that should have been done first was to define Orthodoxy. That is there is both Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy. As a Maronite, I have recieved communion from both groups, but I would say that the Eastern Orthodox are more likely to deny communion to a Catholic.

Even though there are many Roman Catholic Churches in the lands that I have visited, I always attended a Syriac Orthodox service if no Maronite Church was around.

As has been pointed out before in the fora, Middle Eastern Christians are more likely to be ecumenical than any other group.

Fush BaShlomo Lkhoolkhoon,
Yuhannon
 
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