Greetings everyone, David the Realman here.

So I'm sure us Orthodox are very familiar with this age-old Roman Catholic argument.

And a Roman Catholic will ask, why are you Eastern Orthodox?

And we will say, well, we're Eastern Orthodox because of this, this and that.

And a Roman Catholic will say, well, that sounds really beautiful, but why are you not Eastern Catholic?

And they think that's a gotcha moment. They think that's an argument that disproves our position.

But actually, it disproves the Roman position. So the Eastern Catholics refute Rome.

And this is the video where I will illustrate that.

So before we even go ahead, I will talk to you about, well, what we're going to be talking about in this video.

We're going to be covering the meaning of Eucharist. This is very important, actually.

Then we're going to look at Eastern Rite theology as opposed to Latin Rite theology.

And then we're going to look at Eastern

Right Saints then and now, so the past and the present of Eastern Rite Saints. So what does it

even mean to commune? It means that you believe the body and blood of Christ is present in that church.

You also believe that that church really does have the

sacraments. Most importantly, communing in a church is an implicit affirmation that that church

preaches true doctrine. So as an example, you as a Roman Catholic will not commune in a Protestant church.

Why? Well, because Protestantism is just wrong. It preaches false doctrines.

Right? So when you partake in the Eucharist of a church, you're basically saying, this church has a great doctrine.

This church preaches truth. Keeping that in mind, as we all know that the Eastern Catholics and Rome are in commune with one another, so this

should mean that they have a unified theology, right?

That is not the case.

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