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Cristiano said:
I had the opportunity of being the guest in a Lutheran Church and I was really impressed by their wood-carved altar. However, what really caught my attention was a lit red candle by the altar. Can anyone please explain its meaning?
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Check this from the ELCA website.

elca.org/Growing-In-Faith/Worship/Learning-Center/FAQs/Sanctuary-Lamp.aspx

Hope it helps answer your question. One interesting point:
In some non-Roman churches, primarily Episcopal and a small number of Lutheran churches, a clear glass lamp is kept lighted (in a similar manner to Roman Catholic practice) near an aumbry (a box attached to the wall on one side of the altar to house the reserved sacrament).
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Cristiano said:
That is what I originally thought, but my understanding from the theory on consubstantiation is that the Lutherans do not keep undistributed hosts in the tabernacle.
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Most Lutheran churches do not have a tabernacle. There are some that keep consecrated but undistributed hosts apart, usually for use in taking communion to shut-ins. Many, I’m sorry to say, think nothing of placing the consecrated hosts back in the container of unconsecrated hosts.
 
gcnuss said:
Most Lutheran churches do not have a tabernacle. There are some that keep consecrated but undistributed hosts apart, usually for use in taking communion to shut-ins. Many, I’m sorry to say, think nothing of placing the consecrated hosts back in the container of unconsecrated hosts.
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Pastor,
Does it seem to you that Lutherans in America seem to be (finally) moving back toward a more historic view of the Eucharist?
permanance, as opposed to impermanace, reservation, etc.

Jon
 
JonNC said:
Pastor,
Does it seem to you that Lutherans in America seem to be (finally) moving back toward a more historic view of the Eucharist?
permanance, as opposed to impermanace, reservation, etc.
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I think there is a definite move in that direction although I’m not certain how widespread it is. Of course, the fact that one hears of it or experiences it at all is different from the way things were when I was growing up (a few decades ago).
 
gcnuss said:
I think there is a definite move in that direction although I’m not certain how widespread it is. Of course, the fact that one hears of it or experiences it at all is different from the way things were when I was growing up (a few decades ago).
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You mean like when my dad tried to have Communion more than once a month, some of his parishioners would walk out at the start of the Eucharistic liturgy?

Jon
 
JonNC said:
You mean like when my dad tried to have Communion more than once a month, some of his parishioners would walk out at the start of the Eucharistic liturgy?
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Those people still exist. I have experienced them myself. Like the one who told me, “if we have communion every Sunday that’s a Catholic mass and I’m not Catholic.”
 
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