It used to be common for parishes to have monthly or (at one time) even quarterly Eucharist. I think that in some low-church parts of the Anglican world this is still the case, but the closest I’ve encountered, at least in America, is an early Eucharist every week with Morning Prayer at the 10 or 11 “main service” except for once a month. And even that is fairly uncommon and marks a parish as “low church.”
St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey celebrate the Eucharist twice daily plus of course Matins and full choral Evensong (which is found in every English Cathedral). Both St Paul’s and the Abbey have a Sung Eucharist on Sunday plus two other celebrations one early and one in the evening.
In the Church of England under Canon Law every Church has to celebrate Holy Communion every Sunday and on Principal feast days. There are a few churches whose main Sunday service is not Eucharistic who will have an earlier said or sung communion service but they can generally be counted on one hand.
Yes, there are a few. In my English Diocese (which is generally on the Anglo-Catholic side of the spectrum) there are still some small rural low church parishes who are very set in their ways and cling to Sung Mattins as the usual Sunday morning worship with a celebration of HC once or perhaps twice a month.
In my experience, German Lutheran churches generally don’t offer weekly communion. When I lived in a small town in Germany for three months, I found that I could get communion most if not every Sunday by rotating around the different Lutheran churches, since they all had monthly communion but on different weeks of the month. I wound up going in most Sundays to a very high-church Lutheran parish in the larger town of Braunschweig nearby.
The original reason in both cases was the unwillingness of the laity to receive communion frequently.
You are mis-informed. There is Transubstantiation as taught in Catholicism…Consubstantiation and The Real Presence …Anglicans do believe it is the body and blood of Christ in Consubstantiation…whereas most of the early Protestant denominations believed in The Real Presence…with many of the newer Protestant Denominations believing in “a symbol of”
Seemingly, it is where Lutherans have been influenced by the Reformed that weekly communion is less frequent, and that includes the United States. The trend toward weekly communion does seem to be growing, however.
Not that this has anything to do with the thread topic; but you get a Gold Star for the vocabulary word of the day!
Actually, I think you have this is inaccurate, at least for Lutherans. We know precisely what the Eucharist is, and we know what our theology is. It is that by the speaking of the words and the power of the Holy Spirit, it is the true and substantial body and blood of Christ, given and shed for us to eat and drink for the remission of sins.Apophatic Protestant theology.
Nobody is quite sure what is our Eucharistic theology, but we’re fairly sure that it’s not the following…