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In this sense, the bread and wine are rightly said to be Christ's body and blood which he gives to his disciples." When we eat and drink the bread and the wine of the Supper with expectant faith, we thereby have communion with the body and blood of our Lord and receive the forgiveness of sins, life, and salvation. According to this teaching, "Christ gives his body and blood according to his promise to all who partake of the elements. Moravian: The Moravian Church teaches that doctrine of the "sacramental presence of Christ in the Eucharist". The UMC refers to Christ's presence in the Eucharist as a "Holy Mystery," and prefers not to explain the details of Christ's presence. Methodist: The United Methodist Church and most of the smaller Methodist bodies believe in the Real Presence but reject transubstantiation and consubstantiation.
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transubstantiation), they consider the body and blood to exist alongside the bread and wine-"In, with, and under the forms of bread and wine." (This is often miscalled "consubstantiation", which is a Lollardist doctrine). However, rather than holding that the whole substance of the bread and wine is transformed (i.e. Lutheran: Luther and Lutherans today believe in the Real Presence of Christ's body and blood in the Eucharist, with their doctrine of this belief being termed a "sacramental union". Those Anglicans of "Anglo-Catholic" churchmanship affirm the corporeal presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Those perspectives are not, however, part of the doctrine of the Real Presence.Īnglican: The Anglican churches officially believe in the Real Presence received only in a non-carnal way and explicitly reject the doctrine of transubstantiation. This church believes that the service is more than a memorial, and also that the Eucharist (and thus the Mass) is a re-presentation of Christ's eternal once for all sacrifice in the Upper Room and on the Cross made present as the supreme sacrifice-offering-up of worship and thanksgiving (Greek " eu-charistia") in union with him to God the Father. Roman Catholic: the Catholic Church believes in transubstantiation, the doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and wine is transformed into the whole substance of Jesus Christ-His body, blood, soul, and divinity. Specific Eucharistic Doctrines Real Presence 2 Real Presence gradations of understanding within the Catholic, Lutheran and Orthodox traditions.