This pamphlet is primarily intended to be a teaching document for seminaries and formation houses. It is secondarily designed to be easily printed and carried with traveling Eastern Catholics.

With that explanation, the pamphlet was presented to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas with a request for a nihil obstat and imprimatur. Bishop Farrell decided that neither was needed in order to promote the work, saying it simply quoted and presented canon law. There was a presumption that every priest already knows this and no further authority is necessary for stating the obvious. May that come to pass!

This helpful, practical, meticulously accurate, easily comprehensible guide to the canons and practicalities concerning Eastern Catholics receiving the Eucharist in a Roman Catholic Mass will assist many–clergy, religious, and laity of East and West alike–in greater appreciation and participation in the universal nature of the Church. We encourage you to share it far and wide online and in person!

Any person who has questions about the canon law presented in the pamphlet should contact the local tribunal. Many eparchies have Eastern Catholic canon lawyers among their staff. Religious as well as clergy who belong to fraternities may inquire with their superiors. The Canon Law Society of America can help a person locate canon lawyers who are in private practice in the United States, some of whom were instrumental in the formation of this pamphlet. When all other recourse has failed, the St. Joseph Foundation is an apostolate that works to help Catholics assert their rights within the Church.

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