Canon 6 of
the Thirteenth Session of Trent (October 11, 1551) stated:
If anyone says that in the holy sacrament of
the Eucharist, Christ, the only begotten Son of God, is not to be adored with
the worship of latria, also outwardly manifested, and is consequently neither
to be venerated with a special festive solemnity, nor to be solemnly borne
about in procession according to the laudable and universal rite and custom of
holy church, or is not to be set publicly before the people to be adored and
that the adorers thereof are idolaters, let him be anathema.
While
Eastern Orthodoxy affirms that there is a transformation of the bread and wine
into the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus, and that the Eucharist is a
propitiatory sacrifice (see here
and here),
they reject processions, Eucharistic adorations, and the like. As one Eastern
Orthodox priest wrote about this canon:
Here Orthodox Christians, who have kept the
faith unaltered of the ancient church, find themselves anathematized. While
confessing with all certitude that the Holy Mystery of the Eucharist is truly
the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, we additionally confess that the Eucharist
was given to us by Jesus Christ to be consumed, not to be paraded with outside of
the divine service as in Latin Corpus Christi processions nor to be placed in a
monstrance and adored by the faithful in “holy hours.” This is, in fact, a
Latin abuse of the Eucharist itself. Our Lord’s words are “Take, eat,” not “Take,
parade” or “Take, adore.” (Josiah Trenham, Rock
and Sand: An Orthodox Appraisal of the Protestant Reformers and their Teachings
[3d ed.; Columbia, Miss.: Newrome Press, 2018], 128)
