Thriving Latin Mass Parish Closed!

[StMarina303ad]

The Roman Church may allow Roman Catholics to receive the sacraments at Eastern Orthodox Churches, but the Easter Orthodox do not allow it, do they?

The Orthodox priests do not give Holy Eucharist to someone they don’t know - the Orthodox Church takes St. Paul’s words very seriously, namely that some get sick and some die if they receive the Body and Blood of our Lord unworthily - the priest realize they have a huge responsibility both God and the person they are communing.

If you were interested, you’d have to talk with the priest of the parish. He’d have to get to know where you are spiritually and would have to hear your Confession before you could receive Holy Eucharist.

 

[Fuerza]

That is just terrible!

For those who find themselves in this situation, I would recommend that you yourself remain in union with Rome by taking advantage of Code of Canon Law # 844.2 which allows you to attend/receive Sacraments in the Eastern Orthodox Churches which are not in union with Rome for all Catholics “for whom it is physically or morally impossible to approach a Catholic minister”.

The Eastern Catholic Churches do not celebrate the Latin Mass (which was started sometime around 700 ad) but they celebrate the St. John Chrysostom and St. Basil Divine Liturgies (which were started in the 300’s and were simply a shortening of the original Divine Liturgy/Mass started by St. James the Apostle).

For any who are faced with this terrible situation of Church closures and possible necessity of changing to a Traditional Church not in communion with Rome, I invite you to take a look at this Canon and see if you would rather remain in union with Rome by attending an Eastern Orthodox Church.

Of course, if they were going to go the Eastern route anyway, they should probably consider an Eastern Church in communion with Rome. A Catholic must first exhaust all options for a Church in union with Rome before settling for an Orthodox Church. This would include both EC Churches and NO Churches. Even then, if for some reason no Catholic Church were available, the Sunday obligation would be dispensed, and there would be no need to go to an EO Church unless one really wanted to.

 

[palmas85]

The Roman Church may allow Roman Catholics to receive the sacraments at Eastern Orthodox Churches, but the Easter Orthodox do not allow it, do they?

As a general rule Communion is given only to baptized, Chrismated Orthodox Christians who have prepared by fasting, prayer, and confession. The priest administers the Eucharist with a spoon directly into the communicants mouth from the chalice.

Also Orthodox Christianity does not permit its faithful to receive Holy Communion in non-Orthodox communities, whether they be Roman Catholic, Protestant, or whatever. While Roman Catholicism may extend Eucharistic hospitality to Orthodox Christians, it does not mean that Orthodox Christians are permitted to accept such hospitality.

For Orthodox Christians, the Eucharist is a visible sign of unity; to receive the Eucharist in a community to which one does not belong is improper.** If one does not accept all that the Church believes and teaches and worships, one cannot make a visible sign of unity with it.** . While many non-Orthodox see this as a sign that the Orthodox Church excludes non-Orthodox from the Eucharist, the Orthodox believe the opposite is true.

Because a non-Orthodox individual has chosen not to embrace all that Orthodox Christianity holds, the non-Orthodox individual makes it impossible for an Orthodox priest to offer him or her communion. It is not so much a matter of Orthodoxy excluding non-Orthodox as it is the non-Orthodox making it impossible for the Orthodox to offer the Eucharist.

They take the whole matter a lot more seriously than we do.

 

[Pondero]

From the of the Bishop of Leeds dated August 15,2008

"In addition, I have received a request for the provision of Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite (i.e., according to the Latin Missal of the Venerable Pope John XXIII) in the Pontefract Deanery. I am more than happy to make this provision available, as indeed I have in other parts of the diocese, and have arranged for the Extraordinary Form of the Mass to be celebrated each Sunday at 3.0pm in St. Joseph’s Parish Church, Castleford.
“I am aware of how difficult it is for people to leave familiar and much loved churches, and I am very conscious of the sadness being felt at this time. However, as the Church we need to look at the future which is being presented to us with prudence and courage and with an eye to providing realistically, and therefore as effectively as possible within our means, for present and future generations.”

That doesn’t sound like the Bishop of Leeds is opposed to the Latin Mass .