It is a personal choice especially when the pastor invites all baptized Christians who accept the Real Presence to take holy Communion. In the case of my receiving holy Communion in Catholic churches, my daughter-in-law’s priest welcomes me to partake and I do.
And your daughter-in-law’s priest is following the teaching and dictates of the RCC, when doing that? It would, that is, be approved by his local diocesan bishop, if it were brought to his attention?
Well said and Amen.
I know the policy of the Catholic diocese of my son/ daughter-in-law states that Lutherans and Episcopalians can take holy Communion under special circumstances. The priest knows we believe essentially if not entirely the Catholic faith of the Church of Rome. I know where Lutherans get permission ahead of time from the bishops office. This has been the custom for many years.
Fascinating. This would be accounted special circumstances, then?
That would seem in accord with Canon 844.
I have never asked the Catholic priest who has been my in-law’s pastor for most of their lives. I have also been at several retreat Eucharists [Cursillo, for example] w/ Lutheran, Episcopal and Catholic.
Yes, I don’t deny that I’ve encountered Catholics who have received at Anglican or Lutheran parishes, Orthodox who have received at Catholic parishes, and what-not. What I’m saying is that I follow my Church’s rules.
Do recall that word “motley”. The old standard in TEC, of those baptized and confirmed, by a bishop in apostolic succession, can still be found operative, here and there. Most/some/many are useful modifiers.
Well thank you GKC.
In my Air Force days that might be expressed as easier to get forgiveness than permission.
You’re welcome. It seems not a difficult idea to grasp, but apparently it is, to some.Well thank you GKC.
I’ve spent a fair amount of time thinking about such things, because I’ve met a number of my fellow Catholics (some Latin Catholic, some Greek Catholic or Oriental Catholic, but mostly on the Internet) who encourage Orthodox to receive in Catholic parishes, and some of whom get upset when it is pointed out that the Orthodox Church doesn’t allow that.
Yet this is not what the Roman Catholic Church teaches, AFAIK. Please correct me if I’m mistaken, because it seems an awful lot like you’re implying the opposite to be true.
I know the Orthodox won’t. But Catholics will commune Orthodox even though the Orthodox are separate from Rome. So simply saying Lutherans are separate, therefore, they can’t receive, doesn’t seem to answer the question because it dies the death of other qualifications.
This would make sense from the standpoint of a Catholic not receiving in a Lutheran church because you don’t believe it’s a valid sacrament. I don’t know if this quite answers reception, though? I mean, why would it matter whether the Lutheran’s home pastor is validly ordained as to whether the Lutheran can receive?
