Do Episcopalians believe that Jesus is reall present in the Holy Eucharist, blood and body?

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Answer 1

Yes they do.
Important to note one thing to the guy who said they believe it is the blood and body unlike transubstantiation. This is the definition of transubstantiation : the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox doctrine that the bread and wine of Communion become, in substance, but not appearance, the body and blood of Jesus Christ at consecration. That is real presence. It is in fact body and blood just not in appearance.
I found this on the internet: Consubstantiation is the belief of some Christians that the body and blood of Jesus Christ coexist in the bread and wine consecrated at Communion with the natural elements of which the bread and wine are made. This belief is held mainly by High-Church Anglicans. (not catholics)

Answer 2

I was one...a very long time ago. I managed to have my first confession/communion and be confirmed and I didn't believe in God, all by the time I was ten. No one bothered to ask what I believed in...I was told what to do and I was too afraid to say no. At fault was my mother who was a Catholic who was married to a non-Catholic and a catechism system that had changed from the security of the Baltimore Catechism to the loosey-goosey post-Vatican II teachings. I was so poorly taught that at that time I couldn't explain any church teaching other than the nativity. And that is both scandalous and shameful. I now believe that the Eucharist is the real body and blood of Christ...God called me back to Him after a long time in a spiritual wilderness. And with the aid of stellar tools like the Baltimore Catechism, I now understand the main teachings of God and the church. But, to my sorrow, I see many around me who haven't got a clue what the church teaches. After they were confirmed, they stopped studying the faith and just drift through mass. So do we have practicing Catholics who do not understand that the Eucharist IS the real body and blood of Jesus Christ...unfortunately yes. For this, I blame parents who are too tired to ensure their children learn the faith, either at home or in school, and continue to do so post-Confirmation. And then these same children grow up and repeat the errors of their parents. I also blame Catholic schools who have become too secular in focus now that nuns and priest have been taken out of them. I also blame certain Catholic priests who refuse to teach the hard teachings of the Catholic faith in their homilies. I can't tell you the last time I heard a priest teach on the "last rights" or the need for frequent confession or the fires of hell. All I hear are fuzzy teachings about the love of Christ and nothing about the dangers of mortal sin. God bless. ***** Addendum: I have so-called "practicing" Catholics in my own extended family who haven't a clue what the church teaches. They live in sin and/or practice birth control and freely go to communion. If they had a clue what the Eucharist really was, they wouldn't practice such blasphemy.

Answer 3

100%!!!!!!!!!

And that's exactly how they would say it. "Real Presence", as opposed to "Transubstantiation' or "Consubstantiation". It's closer to the eastern Orthodox idea of "Mysterion" - it just is!!

As Good Queen Bess (a fairly Protestant-leaning Anglican if there ever was one) said:

Christ was the word that spake it.
He took the bread and break it;
And what his words did make it
That I believe and take it.

(Reputedly spoken by Elizabeth when questioned on her beliefs on the Eucharist in Mary's reign)

Answer 4

Yes.

Answer 5

Yeah...and Santa is in my Xmas cookies.