[NYer]

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[narses]

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[chajin]

This seems for me to be the weekend where the Lutheran speaks for the Orthodox :-) but it would seem to me that the Orthodox approach to the celebration of the Eucharist provides a means for threading the needle between the providing the Body and Blood to the reconciled, and providing a means of inclusion to those who are not in communion with the Orthodox church, whether or not they are Christians. The Orthodox Christian who has correctly prepared for the meal receives the elements, but then the recipient has the option of giving the antidoron, or blessed but not consecrated bread, to those who are not in communion.

As an LCMS Lutheran, I understand the high respect that is given to the consecrated elements, and the Pauline injunction not to eat and drink unworthily. But providing the blessed bread allows to visitor to know that s/he is welcome in the worship, and also welcome to consider the option of accepting the church's offer to come into communion by becoming worthy in Christ. In our church, as in most Protestant churches I suspect, a form of this is practiced, in the coffee-and-cookies fellowship after the service--and in our church, you have to walk through the fellowship hall to get from the sanctuary to the car :-)

[ebb tide]

The catholic Left will say that Bux… like Müller and others who uphold Catholic teaching… are waging a war on mercy.

The "catholic left" being Kasper, Francis, etc.

[FormerLib]

He doesn’t realize that the Orthodox Christians and Roman Catholics really do it the same way. The Romans are much more formal with their practice of annulment but the Orthodox require a Bishop acknowledge the failure of the first marriage and then grant permission for the second.