Ah

So you’re a degenerate apostate then? 😜🤣

You could say that

*sarcasm* by the way

It's not a long time that I have returned to church, I had my phase of agnosticism like @Iakovos too

Maybe a year or two that I devoted myself again

I returned to pray daily also

Ah ok cool

So you’re also a recent return to Christianity.

Yes

So when I do feel ready I'll probably try fasting and return to do the communion each week

So you’ve been back in church for 1-2 years, but not taking communion?

Yes

Ah ok

Do you have to do anything officially for the priest to let you do communion or have you just not done it?

You don't, you may even cheat and eat before the communion but you would only cheat yourself

The only time a priest can reject your request of communion

is if you have sinned (a lot) and try to speak it with the priest. He will order you a fasting for a month or even more depends on your sins and after that he will allow you to go again for a communion

that mostly happens in your local churches

So if the priest determines, during your confession, that you’ve sinned a lot he will ask you to fast for a period of time before he lets you partake of communion again?

What's to stop someone from accepting communion in the hand and then sneaking out?

The lightning rod of Jesus 🤷🏼‍♂️

The people around you

it's a stigma here to steal

Well here too

It is here too 🤣

you could pick pocket it but you would sin greatly

for a minimum "reward"

But a Satanist could go and pretend to be Orthodox, get the bread and then leave

It's necessary for the satanic black mass to have consecrated bread. Former satanists have said they can actually tell the difference in consecrated and unconsecrated

It must be conducted by a priest who of course has left the Church. But Orthodox ordination is exactly as valid as Catholic. They have apostolic succession

And so is Orthodox Eucharist.

We do not have problem with satanists here though, nowdays with the newer generations we could see a rise

So I don't understand why it never seems to happen to Orthodox

Black mass has to be done by ex-priests?

Yes

Interesting...

@Deleted User I don't know for the slavic people

Orthobros could just be lucky in Europe.

but the generation of my father/mother had a 90+% unity in church

Does it not happen here?