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Lucania
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I am a former Episcopalian. I’ve been a Catholic for 10 years now. A couple of things I’d like to say is that I was never taught that the Episcopal Church came from Joseph of Arithmatea. I have never heard of that. I was told that we are a branch or offshoot of the Church of England, which happened when we won our independence from England. The Episcopal Church itself did not come from Henry the VIII . They are part of the worldwide Anglican Community. As far as the Eucharist, I believed that the differences were Transubstantiation and Consubstantiation. Transubstantiation (our Catholic belief) being where Christ is present in the Eucharist by the change of the entire substance(the accidents remain the same) of the bread and wine into the Body & Blood of Jesus. Consubstantiation is where Christs body exists TOGETHER with the substance of bread & wine. After Communion is distributed and consumed in the Episcopal Church, they cease to exist together so any hosts that were concecrated are not stored as the Body & Blood of Jesus, as he is no longer present, hence no tabernacle in the Episcopal Church. That is how I was taught a long time
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