and partake in the bread and wine communion at their services?
2007-11-19 20:39:59 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, of course they can.... The bigger question is can they manage to get out again.
I'm purely guessing here, but some of the Irish church groups over the past decades have seemed so fixated on a blood thirst for Englishmen that a quickie crucifixion reenactment might just happen to cross their little minds. LOL
Religious intolerance from group to group is occasionally a moody little devil, isn't it.?
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2007-11-19 23:41:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
At the Last Supper, Jesus said, “Take this bread. It is my body.” The 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 became the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
Catholics reenact the Last Supper during every Mass, where the priest, acting in place of Christ, changes the 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 actual presence of Christ and is not united with the Catholic faith is asked, out of respect, not to receive the Eucharist.
Catholics, out of respect for other Christian faiths, do not receive Communion in non-Catholic churches.
We pray that one day Christian unity will succeed and we will all be called to the same table.
For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 1322 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt2sect2chpt1art3.htm
With love in Christ.
2007-11-20 17:34:34 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I'm afraid not.
For Catholics, the Eucharist is a Sacrament and only a person who is properly prepared can receive this Sacrament. In fact, quite a few Catholics are "disqualified" and refrain from receiving the Blessed Sacrament until their situation is put in order again.
Only a small portion of Protestants believe in transubstantiation -- the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. People who do NOT believe in the Real Presence would likely not be any more interested in consuming the Eucharist than a vegetarian would be interested in consuming turkey on Thanksgiving.
2007-11-20 04:31:19 · answer #3 · answered by sparki777 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To partake in the Catholic bread and wine communion, you have to confess to a Catholic Priest first.
2007-11-19 20:45:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not according to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, however many of their Priests will give communion to people who they know are not Roman Catholics.
In the reformed Churches,and I speak as an Anglican, we welcome all who wish to receive Communion at a service. Indeed many Roman Catholic Priests when attending services in our Churches come forward and receive communion.
2007-11-19 21:17:16 · answer #5 · answered by The Questioner 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Go in the church? Sure. I've been to quite a few Catholic masses.
As for partaking in communion, that's pretty much up to individual conscience. I never have, but I wouldn't look down on someone who had. Christ is Christ.
2007-11-19 20:44:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic church welcomes anybody who wants to walk through the door. But I think you cannot take communion with them. If you want to take communion, talk to a priest.
2007-11-19 20:45:15 · answer #7 · answered by Pat G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you are not in comunion with them. It is a sin to accept comunion unworthilyand for those who practice closed communion which is the original way to do it having the same doctrine and escigiolgy is important. As the Anglican church dose not see the Pope as the ehad of the church you are not in comunion with Rome and as you have never compleatly shed western doctrines you are not in communion with the Orthodox church.
2007-11-19 22:21:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If both religions stay true to Gods word and in their heart believe they are not sinning against God when they are doing so then yes. But I would say no. The Protestant believer should in no way go to the catholic church just for the sheer fact of their beliefs. Stay a protestant and never fall so low and give in to Catholicism. I know Im Oppinionated But after Reading theologions Like Vos, Calvin. Vantil, Spurgeon youll see why.
2007-11-19 20:51:55 · answer #9 · answered by Carl F 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
people who are not in union with the Catholic Church shouldn't take Communion.
there are Sacraments that must be performed prior Communion.
2007-11-19 20:44:48 · answer #10 · answered by Perceptive 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋