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To: Kolokotronis; Poe White Trash; Cronos; wagglebee; Petronski; Salvation; the_conscience; ...
That's absolute nonsense and you as a person attending liturgy in a Maronite Church certainly ought to know that. If it were true, NYer, then the Maronites in Lebanon, from their hierarchs on down, are not Catholics as there is regular, REGULAR, intercommunion among the Maronites, the Melkites and the Orthodox

Nonsense? Our Maronite parish administers communion to Orthodox ... because the Catholic Church recognizes the Orthodox sacrament as valid. As I recall, you have commented on multiple threads, that the Orthodox Church does not allow its faithful to receive Catholic Eucharist.

Here is the Catholic Code of Canon Law on administering the sacraments to Orthodox.

Can. 844 §3. Catholic ministers administer the sacraments of penance, Eucharist, and anointing of the sick licitly to members of Eastern Churches which do not have full communion with the Catholic Church if they seek such on their own accord and are properly disposed.

Here is the Orthodox position on Catholics:

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

132 posted on 01/06/2010 8:23:26 AM PST by NYer ("Where Peter is, there is the Church." - St. Ambrose of Milan)
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To: NYer
"Here is the Orthodox position on Catholics: ..."

No, that's not the "Orthodox position on Catholics", that is the Orthodox position on the propriety of Orthodox Christians receiving communion in non-Orthodox communities. That has absolutely NOTHING to do with what Orthodox position on the Roman Catholic Church is.

The fact of the matter is that what I have posted regarding intercommunion and the moving of lay faithful from one particular church to another in Lebanon and even here among the Orthodox, the Maronites and the Melkites is the absolute truth and you either know it or should know it. Every Maronite does!

136 posted on 01/06/2010 8:33:12 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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