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If you try bringing that infant into a Latin Church, he/she would be denied Communion until they were "of age" in that Rite. Interesting how that works, but there are reasons for that. As a Byzantine Catholic father of five young children, three of whom are below the age of reason, we have had absolutely no problem in attending a Latin Rite Mass and having the children receive. We do however make sure we speak to the priest before the Mass to inform him of our Rite, and our desire for our children to all receive the Eucharist. Most, if not all of the times we have done this, the Roman priest has been not just accepting, but excited to have some visiting Byzantines in his parish. We do not make a spectacle of ourselves, and just politely ask where the priest will be distributing communion, so that we can sit in his section. My wife and I do not have our baby receive yet in the Latin Rite simply because of logistical issues with the host and cup - too much of a chance of spilling or dropping the Eucharist. The hardest part has been when we have been running too late to the Mass and were not able to speak with the priest before hand. In those cases, in order to not cause a commotion, we have not had our young ones receive. It is very sad to see the tears well up in my young son's eyes because he didn't receive Jesus. In those circumstances, we have tried to speak with Father after the Mass and have him receive in the sacristy privately.
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If you try bringing that infant into a Latin Church, he/she would be denied Communion until they were "of age" in that Rite. Interesting how that works, but there are reasons for that. As a Byzantine Catholic father of five young children, three of whom are below the age of reason, we have had absolutely no problem in attending a Latin Rite Mass and having the children receive. We do however make sure we speak to the priest before the Mass to inform him of our Rite, and our desire for our children to all receive the Eucharist. Most, if not all of the times we have done this, the Roman priest has been not just accepting, but excited to have some visiting Byzantines in his parish. We do not make a spectacle of ourselves, and just politely ask where the priest will be distributing communion, so that we can sit in his section. My wife and I do not have our baby receive yet in the Latin Rite simply because of logistical issues with the host and cup - too much of a chance of spilling or dropping the Eucharist. The hardest part has been when we have been running too late to the Mass and were not able to speak with the priest before hand. In those cases, in order to not cause a commotion, we have not had our young ones receive. It is very sad to see the tears well up in my young son's eyes because he didn't receive Jesus. In those circumstances, we have tried to speak with Father after the Mass and have him receive in the sacristy privately. This has been our approach and our experience. At first, I was worried about it because I'd read on this forum about other people's less-than-positive experiences, but our outcome has been positive nearly every time. We have only had 1 priest (out of 6) who was clearly not comfortable with the request. We didn't push the matter. We generally only approach the priest when we have a child younger than 7 who is actually asking to receive. The last time this occurred, we had a 5 year old that we were talking to the priest about. He was excited, and asked if the 2 year old and baby would be receiving as well.
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I'm canonically Latin but both my kids receive at our UGCC parish and other UGCC parishes we visit. But when we are in Rome, we do as the Romans do.
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Right, same here, canonically Roman, but have received Communion in UGCC and RBCC (Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church), as well as serve as altar boy in the RBCC as well.
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