E.C.
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OCA is usually once a month across the board. ROCOR is generally "before receiving Communion" which becomes either that vespers or the morning of during Hours. However, here at the ROCOR cathedral in DC they're basically on the "once every few weeks" schedule; partly because of Covid and partly due to the sheer volume of people there. The ROCOR parish I was at in California had confession during the Hours.I always am fascinated by these differences in tradition (minuscule t). In Romanian church (ROEA in my case) it is not really possible to approach without being known ahead of time that you would because you must have had Confession that day and have been given the "go ahead". It's not a spur of the moment situation, so to say. I wonder about Russian because I know some Russians who have the same rules... I think they are ROCOR, but I'm not sure. Both my Romanian and my Russian acquaintances "gossip" on how "the Greeks are so lax" in this regard. "You could have gone to Confession three weeks ago and still be allowed to partake" (I actually don't know if that's true. Is it???)... Is OCA proper also more lax about who can approach on their own initiative?
Antiochians and Greeks are generally less frequent. Years ago I attended a Greek church in Virginia for about six months and more recently for two months in Texas; never went to confession in either one and still received Communion. I attended an Antiochian parish, also in Virginia, for a year and a half and I think I went to confession like once?
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