Receiving Protestant Eucharist (communion) in the Catholic Church?
Being great friends with Catholics and Protestants alike, often worship with many of my Catholic friends to their masses, and often participate in the celebration of the Eucharist Sacrement. My friends are accepting, but I know that the church would not agree! Every believer can participate in our church, Catholic or Protestant, to the extent that they believe in the Lord's Supper. My question (I am aware of the doctrinal differences between Catholics and Protestants Communion Eucharist) is the reason they are so only in a very important element of Christian worship?
Always puzzled me.
- Protestant Receiving Eucharist (communion) In Catholic Church?
- A Protestant im thinking of going to a Catholic Church for the first time and receiving the Eucharist …….
- Is it compulsory to go to confession before receiving Holy Communion, according to Catholic Church rules?
- Can a Roman Catholic to receive the Eucharist in a Greek Orthodox church?
- Why the Holy Eucharist, source and summit of the Catholic faith So disrespect in the world today?
Catholics believe in transubstantiation: that the host and wine become the body and blood of Christ. Protestants believe the bread and wine only symbolize body and blood of Jesus. You should be aware that this is what he is saying he believes that when taking the Eucharist at a Catholic church.
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In the meantime, please, respect for the Catholic religion, do not take communion when they attend Mass. I feel that your Catholic friends misinformed about this - but it's not okay, no matter how cool your friends about it are. You may disagree with the Catholic Church about the views of communion and that may seem hurtful, but please be respectful of it when you attend Mass. That's part of being tolerant of other religions and beliefs. When you choose to participate in the worship of another religion, is to respect their rules, even if you think the rules are wrong.
There are some problems: first, because you must tell the priest about his sins, secondly: the Protestants do not believe that Mary was and remains, even after the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ.
If that were to take a Protestant in a Catholic Church commuunion be symbolic that is in communion with the Church, when in reality it is not. If you are interested, they would have to take classes to learn what it really means to be in communion with the church.
Catholics are forbidden by the Catholic Church from receiving communion in Protestant churches for the same reason.
I personally do not see why it should not be allowed to take communion just because you are not Catholic. Catholics did not invent the communion, to deny someone a God given right to participate in this sacrament, as only prove Protestant, is against the word of God. Most religions do Christian communion, not just Catholics. When not in the Bible does not say that only Catholics are allowed communion. That was a man made doctrine. African Methodist Episcopal I grew up and we allowed anyone to participate in communion, even if no AME is
We Catholics to celebrate their most holy sacraments of the Protestants.
If a Christian to receive communion only cree that the host is a symbol of Christ and not believe in the transubstantiation of the host and wine into the body and blood of Christ is lost.
We appreciate the sacrifice of Jesus much more than that.
I have taken communion in Protestant churches and Catholic respect for the Prophet Jesus (ra). The doctrine of the Church in spite of my relationship with the prophet, not the church.
Allah knows best.
Peace and Blessings,
Salim
I think the Catholic church put an end to the restriction on receipt of the welcome they receive and allow any church, along with the receiver, taking the host with his hands. The rules change.
Catholics believe in the literal presence of Christ in the Eucharist - that is, during the Mass, believe that the host has been transformed into the literal body and blood of Christ. However, many (or more) Protestant groups believe that the Eucharist is merely a symbolic gesture rather than a literal. For this reason, the Catholic Church remains closed communion. They do not want to degrade by the dispensation of the host people who are unwilling to see the literal body and blood of Christ. It also implies a Catholic / Protestant union that no longer exist (this was told to me by a priest).
I am a Protestant, my husband is a Catholic convert (who was for many, many years, not a Protestant, but a complete unbeliever). Converson to full communion was finally given … but not before a moment. Contrast that to my church, where anyone can receive Communion. It's just a different way of understanding the Holy Eucharist.
You should stop taking communion and ask a priest about the details of the church. Your friends will not let you take communion.
Did you know that the wafer is not only a symbol of Christ's blood is the body and blood of Christ.
There are five conditions to be met before taking communion:
In first place, you must be in a state of grace.
Secondly, you must have been since your last mortal sin confession.
Thirdly, you must believe in the doctrine of transubstantiation. as transubstantiation, the bread and wine are transformed into the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ, with only the appearances of bread and wine remaining.
Fourth, you must observe the Eucharistic fast.
Finally, we should not be under an ecclesiastical censure.
Communion is so important that even those Catholics who do not meet the 5 conditions are not allowed to take communion.
Please note # 3 "into reality"
At the Last Supper, Jesus said, "Take this bread. It's my body. "He said," Take this and drink. This is my blood. Do this in memory of me. "
Catholics believe this was the First Eucharist, that through some miracle the bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
Catholics reenact the Last Supper at every Mass when the priest, instead of Christ, it changes bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
This is a great sacrament of thanksgiving and unity of Catholics.
Anyone who does not believe in the real presence of Christ and is united with the Catholic faith prompted by respect, not to receive the Eucharist.
Catholics, out of respect for other Christian denominations, not to receive Communion in non-Catholic churches.
We pray that one day will happen to the unity of Christians and we are all called to the same table.
With love and prayers in Christ.
Update: Could the Lord's disciples to participate in the Catholic Eucharist?
Yes, the early Christian writings in the Bible, and point to the conclusion that the early church believed in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
What is the point of doing something in memory of anyone if they do not have a proper understanding and appreciation for what he is doing?
Catholics believe in the real presence. There is nothing figurative or symbolic about the words of Jesus in relation to the Eucharist.
Even now it is untrue. You are very fond of having Jesus said, "is this remembrance of me." But exactly what that refers to Jesus when He says "this"?
"This" refers to Jesus, saying: "This is my body which is given for you." And then Jesus saying: "This is my blood, the blood of the New Alliance, which is shed for many."
Taking to heart "Do this in memory of me" means little or nothing at all, but also take seriously what he also said during the Last Supper.
The Catholic Church frowns on non-Catholics receiving Communion, because usually think they are just receiving a piece of bread and a sip of wine only. Ie, that symbolize the Body and Blood of Christ, despite the fact that nothing is sacred Scripture that eludes any symbolism, which refers to the Eucharist.
If you believe that consecrated bread and wine the Body and Blood of Christ, do not you try a little more reverence, going so far as to deny that anybody who may not understand the Eucharist for what it is?
It is not as surprising as it seems.
Only the doctrinal differences.
I was raised Catholic, and now I am a Protestant.
The Catholic Church teaches that through the miracle of the Tran-depth, water and wine are turned miraculously into the blood of Jesus, and the wafer becomes the body.
When served in a Catholic Church Communion, the priest says: "Body of Christ." A before receiving the wafer, the beneficiary is obliged to say "Amen." Or, in essence, "I agree."
The Protestant Church teaches that the bread and wine are symbolic of Jesus' Body and Blood.
Therein lies the "great controversy".
However, the official Catholic teachings say that if you receive Communion without thinking that the bottom-Tran has happened, then you're part of the communion to his own conviction.
If you can parttake of communion with the Catholic conscience, then you do not damage a Protestant viewpoint.
The rules are the rules. You are free to join any religion you want, but in each organization, the members of the privileges they have and that its rules and regulations.
His criticism of Catholic doctrine is very limited. Why stop at the Eucharist? Every religion is based on a bastardization of a flawed, man-made book.
Since Catholics do not believe that it is a symbol. Catholics believe that it is literally the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ.
For you to participate in this is to imply that you are in communion with the Catholic Church in this doctrine. Since you are a Protestant, it is very likely that you do not accept the doctrine of transubstantiation, and therefore are in fact not in communion with the Catholic Church.
While I understand that you see it as a community event, not only that. It is also deeply personal in the reception of Christ in the flesh. Since we do not appreciate it as such, to receive communion in a Catholic church is deeply offensive to the eyes of the Catholic Church.
Even being an atheist, I would humbly ask that instead of receiving the Eucharist, the priest simply approach with your arms on your chest. This will indicate that they are not receiving the Eucharist, and most of the priests to say a brief blessing on you. This better highlight their devotion to Jesus, and its respect for the traditions of the church who is attending.
I dated a Catholic as a teen boy. His whole family is Catholic, and my whole family is Protestant. When I would go with him and his family to his church for evening mass Saturday, his mother always insisted I sit on the bench and not go with them to Communion. They also took their jackets every week and keep right on walking after receiving Communion / Eucharist, and never expected to end mass. So did half the population.
Of course that is offered only occasionally and put the envelope (with your name on it) in the collection basket and not remain in any part of the body! His explanation: "Who cares about keeping its mass? We just want our children to get married here someday, and the priest will not allow that unless the family tithes every week for two years straight. "
Front, only different!
Peace! * From the old Lutheran church happy *