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To: married21; lightman

1. Since I am not their Spiritual Father, I don’t know!

2. In a parish (not under covid rules), Divine Liturgy is usually served on Sundays and Feast Days. In monasteries and in some parishes, it is served every morning except on the relatively few days when it is forbidden. In Great Lent, we have special weekday Presanctified liturgies in which communion is served.


13 posted on 02/12/2021 12:45:27 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Honorary Serb; married21; lightman
>> I don’t know if Mike Dukakis is an Orthodox in good standing anyway, because of his marriage outside the Church. If not—no Communion.
And a good Spiritual Father would deal with an Orthodox communicant’s sin via Holy Confession, rather than blurting it out in the media!!! <<
>> 1. Since I am not their Spiritual Father, I don’t know!
2. In a parish (not under covid rules), Divine Liturgy is usually served on Sundays and Feast Days. In monasteries and in some parishes, it is served every morning except on the relatively few days when it is forbidden. In Great Lent, we have special weekday Presanctified liturgies in which communion is served. <<
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Interesting information about how holy communion is done in the Orthodox Church.

My understanding is Orthodox Christians don't use terms like "transubstantiation" but they nevertheless believe the same thing that Catholics do about communion (that the bread and wine literally become the body and blood of Christ), so I imagine there would be a similar amount of "scandalous" reaction if some politician committing grave sins was showing for church every Sunday and presenting himself or herself for communion without batting an eyelash.

The problem with Catholic politicians like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden is NOT their local priest "blurting out to the media" that they've been "bad Catholics", but that they wear their Catholicism on their sleeve and present themselves as GOOD faithful practicing Catholics nationally, while still publicly advocating abortion-on-demand for any reason. When they are visiting OTHER Catholic parishes around the country, this forces the issue where Catholic bishops or priests in that diocese are forced to make a decision about whether or not to deny them communion when they show up to attend Sunday liturgy at a parish they've never attended before, for a photo-op. The vast majority of Catholic priests and bishops (I would say 95%?) aren't willing to take that step, but a handful certainly have decided to withhold communion (not to "punish" the rogue politician or publicly embarrass them, but out of concern for the salvation of their soul). An example is the bishop of Springfield, Illinois issued a statement affirming a priest had to the right to deny communion to U.S. Senator Dick Durbin for his vehement support for abortion.

Of course, this leads to the media demanding to know why the priest took the action he did, so the priest is confronted publicly and thus goes on the record why so-and-so is unworthy to receive communion.

In short, its not the politicians own pastor "blabbing to the media" about what a "bad" Catholic he is, its the politician himself causing the issue to be aired publicly by putting Catholic priests and bishops from outside his local church in that position.

Doing a brief Google search, there are a handful of examples of pro-abortion Congressmen who are Orthodox Christians, the ones I found were John Sarbanes of Maryland, Chris Pappas of New Hampshire, and Dina Titus of Nevada. I believe Republican Nicole Malliotakis of NYC is also pro-abortion and Orthodox Christian.

Of course, none of the aforementioned politicians are well known outside of their own district, which is why I brought up the Dukakis example. Whether he was in good standing with the Orthodox Church and presented himself in public as a good practicing Orthodox Christian when he ran for President in 1988, I don't know.

17 posted on 02/12/2021 2:41:16 PM PST by BillyBoy ("States rights" is NOT a suicide pact.)
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