The answer
At home she can worship God however she likes at this time of the month, but if she takes Communion in church, or outside it, this is absolutely not allowed.
A person is not permitted to receive Communion if blood is flowing from his body, and this applies to both sexes, and it also applies to any secretion of a sexual nature: this is clear from the Bible.
There are many Biblical texts and many Church regulations which confirm this point and have made it clear for people to understand.
But someone might plead that it isn't fair on women, since nothing comparable applies to men. For when men have wet dreams or if any discharge comes from their bodies, they can still enter Church and no-one is likely to prevent them, and no rules can be enforced against them. So why should this happen to women?
Perhaps someone might ask that there are some men who aren't deacons but who nevertheless enter the sanctuary and take Communion. How is that so?
In actual fact, this was only ever permitted to the king who had been crowned in the Orthodox manner, and had been anointed with the holy oil in view of the fact that he was the Lord's anointed.
As for other people entering, perhaps they have another reason for doing so which could be one of the following:
Many of the men who do this have actually been admitted to one of the lower degrees of deacon, but might not be wearing their proper deacon's dress at the time that they enter the sanctuary, as they should, and this is a mistake which the Church is trying to remedy, by forbidding all deacons from entering the sanctuary, even those decreed to be at one of the lower levels, but who don't happen to be serving or wearing their tunics on that day.
But there is also another mistake which I have observed which has been necessitated really by a professional situation which is that some men, such as builders, engineers or decorators might
need to enter the sanctuary during the course of their work, but this obviously wouldn't be during a service. In a similar way, it might be necessary at times for painters, television or radio men to enter the sanctuary.
The answer is that the most the man is permitted to do is to enter the church after having cleansed himself bodily, but he is not allowed to receive Communion.
There is a basic difference though between the kind of discharge coming from the man and the woman, which is that: the man's is incidental and temporary, whereas the woman's continues for several days. The following point, however, would make them both equal and that is if the man's discharge were continuous, he would also be forbidden to take the communion in exactly the same way.
But there remains the point that it is not the woman's fault, that it is something natural which she can't help.
No, it's nobody's fault: there is nothing wrong in it, and no-one is being blamed but God just wants to always remind us of the first sin of mankind.
If we are mindful of that first sin, we are more likely to value the ransom paid out for us.
The wages of sin is death, and even though Christ died for us, He still left us with a mark to remember this by, which is for men, that "By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food"
and for women, that "with pain you will give birth to children. " (Gen. 3:19,18)
In the case of pregnancy, the woman's menstruation stops, and she is reminded of Eve's original sin by the pains of pregnancy, birth and delivery, and outside the period of pregnancy she recalls her sin at the time of menstruation and this makes her realise how much her sins forbid her from receiving holy blessings, not only those which are associated with Communion and the Church.
Men, on the other hand, are reminded of their first sin because they are supposed to labour throughout their lives on account of earning their daily bread. The remembrance of this is the aim, though the means might vary enormously.
It would be better for us to try and derive spiritual benefit from thinking more deeply about the meaning of these things rather than complaining about them.
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Thrice-Blessed Pope Shenouda III of Blessed Memory