What is the churchs position on who is allowed to receive the Eucharist? Would a person need to be confirmed in the ECC+USA, a confirmed Catholic, or any baptized Christian?
All baptized Christians who believe that Jesus in present in the Eucharist are invited and welcome to receive Holy Communion at our altars. While the RCC requires that Roman Catholics believe that Christ is present as defined by the doctrine of Transubstantiation, we do not ask people to explain “how” they believe that Christ is present. We believe that Christ is really present, but the “how” is a “great mystery” as the Orthodox Church teaches. We do believe that Christ is really and truly present in the Eucharist and not simply symbolically present as some churches believe. Those of us from the RCC tradition (and we do currently have four former RCC priests and and three former RCC seminarians who were ordained in our Church) have been raised in the Transubstantiation traditional belief so we have no problem accepting it as the “how” Christ is present in the Eucharist. But, belief that Christ is present and not dealing with the issue of how, is sufficient to receive Holy Communion in
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