What is the minimum age for Communion/Lord's Supper in Protestant churches that believe in the Real Presence?

[NMJenny]

I came into the Catholic Church from the Episcopalian, and my children were raised in that faith, although most of them have followed me into the RCC. Confirmation was required before children would be admitted to communion–in most cases a preparation class was held for several months during the regular Sunday school period for those around 12 - 16. Confirmation was administered by a Bishop, and was followed (at the same service) by the children receiving their first communion.

This was the normal process up to the middle of the 1970s–I don’t know if confirmation/communion is still handled the same way today…

 

[angelusm]

I have a question for those of you who are Protestant or who used to be Protestant and are/were members of Protestant churches that believe in the Real Presence (for instance, Anglican/Episcopalian, Methodist, and Lutheran). At what age are people allowed to receive Communion? Is there any requirement for catechesis prior to be allowed to receive Communion?

1. Protestants are not churches. There’s the CC, Orthodox Churches and Eastern Churches. But protestant - communions, communities, denominations, sects.
2. There’s no real presence in protestant denominations. Bishops who abandonned Rome were apostates and could not validly ordain priests. As a result of no priesthood protestants have just bread and wine.

 

[lak611]

1. Protestants are not churches. There’s the CC, Orthodox Churches and Eastern Churches. But protestant - communions, communities, denominations, sects.
2. There’s no real presence in protestant denominations. Bishops who abandonned Rome were apostates and could not validly ordain priests. As a result of no priesthood protestants have just bread and wine.

I am not asking my question in order to debate the validity of Protestant communion. That was not the purpose of my question. That is a topic for another thread.

 

[c659smith]

I am hearing of protestant religions doing communion. Now I will for the time being state Ignorance on my part but I do not believe that there is a Protestant denomination that belieces in transubstansiation. That is the Bread and Wine being transformed into the actual Body Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ. If there is a such a denomination out there that does please post. Others out there please do not be fooled by claims their denomination celebrates Mass and Holy Communion the same as the Catholic Church.

Also remember there is no Sacrament of Confession,

 

[O.S.Luke]

I am hearing of protestant religions doing communion. Now I will for the time being state Ignorance on my part but I do not believe that there is a Protestant denomination that belieces in transubstansiation. That is the Bread and Wine being transformed into the actual Body Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ. If there is a such a denomination out there that does please post. Others out there please do not be fooled by claims their denomination celebrates Mass and Holy Communion the same as the Catholic Church.

Protestants have always “done” communion. That’s nothing new.

Anglicans/Methodists embrace the Real Presence as the Eastern Orthodox do: it is the Body and Blood of Christ. Period. No explanation needed. Sacraments are mysteries, and mysteries cannot be explained. The changes are not physically recognizable, but by the Holy Spirit “they become for us the body and blood of Christ” (from the epiclesis in Word and Table I, United Methodist Hymnal).