Who can celebrate the Eucharist?

[Orthodox4Christ]

I’m not sure if the Orthodox Church - my church, allows its people to celebrate Eucharist in Roman Catholic Masses, but I am very interested. However, I have been baptized twice in the Baptist Church and my third one is upcoming in the Holy Orthodox Church, haha. This will be a true baptism. In the RC’s opinion, I am in a state of mortal sin (I’ve done some pretty weird stuff sense my first two baptism) and the other baptism won’t do anything (but it will). So, what if I go to receive Eucharist in a RC after my Orthodox baptism?

 

[FrDavid96]

I’m not sure if the Orthodox Church - my church, allows its people to celebrate Eucharist in Roman Catholic Masses, but I am very interested. However, I have been baptized twice in the Baptist Church and my third one is upcoming in the Holy Orthodox Church, haha. This will be a true baptism. In the RC’s opinion, I am in a state of mortal sin (I’ve done some pretty weird stuff sense my first two baptism) and the other baptism won’t do anything (but it will). So, what if I go to receive Eucharist in a RC after my Orthodox baptism?

Catholic laws do not prohibit Eastern Orthodox from receiving Communion from a Catholic priest. As for the position of the Orthodox Church(es), you’ll have to consult with your own pastor.

 

[JediHockey]

You may receive but you must first go to confession. You must not be in the state of mortal sin when you receive the Eucharist or else, in the words of St. Paul, you will be eating and drinking judgment upon yourself

 

[elizaveta01]

I’m not sure if the Orthodox Church - my church, allows its people to celebrate Eucharist in Roman Catholic Masses, but I am very interested. However, I have been baptized twice in the Baptist Church and my third one is upcoming in the Holy Orthodox Church, haha. This will be a true baptism. In the RC’s opinion, I am in a state of mortal sin (I’ve done some pretty weird stuff sense my first two baptism) and the other baptism won’t do anything (but it will). So, what if I go to receive Eucharist in a RC after my Orthodox baptism?

From the RC side it’s not a problem. But it is from the Orthodox side.

I suggest strongly that you talk to your priest about this. It is not uncommon for Orthodox priests to require Orthodox Christians who have participated in the RC Church (taken Communion etc) to go to confession and be re-annointed with Chrism before receiving Orthodox Communion again.

 

[ConstantineTG]

The Orthodox Church does not allow the Orthodox faithful to receive Communion from Church not in communion with the Orthodox.

Also, why would you even want to receive the Eucharist from a Catholic Church?

 

[thistle]

From the RC side it’s not a problem. But it is from the Orthodox side.

I suggest strongly that you talk to your priest about this. It is not uncommon for Orthodox priests to require Orthodox Christians who have participated in the RC Church (taken Communion etc) to go to confession and be re-annointed with Chrism before receiving Orthodox Communion again.

That’s ironic considering Orthodoxy is a schismatic part of the Catholic Church. They are the ones who should be going to Confession and be reunited with us.

 

[andrewstx]

Perhaps he lives in a place where there is no Orthodox church and instead a mission? That is my own condition and we get a priest to come about only once a month to serve the Liturgy in a Roman sunday school ccd room.

I received Catholic communion once when I was hospitalized seriously ill and the Orthodox priest was over a thousand miles away.

What else could I have done? I had respiratory arrest and was on O2 24/7.

 

[Ad_Orientem]

Side note: in Catholic terminology, “celebrating” the Eucharist is what the priest alone does when he presides over the liturgy and offers the Sacrifice (thus the term “celebrant”). What you are referring to, we call “receiving Holy Communion.”

 

[ConstantineTG]

Side note: in Catholic terminology, “celebrating” the Eucharist is what the priest alone does when he presides over the liturgy and offers the Sacrifice (thus the term “celebrant”). What you are referring to, we call “receiving Holy Communion.”

His terminology is correct in Orthodox Christian theology. The priest never does Liturgy alone. Even in the Old Testament, the offering is made by the priest in behalf of the person making the offering, they are there together.

 

[ConstantineTG]

I received Catholic communion once when I was hospitalized seriously ill and the Orthodox priest was over a thousand miles away.

What else could I have done?

Pray. Trust in God’s mercy.