Why can't Lutherans accept the Eucharist as a RC mass?

[EvangelCatholic]

Perhaps my early days in the seminary and coming from very large families/ in-laws of Lutheran and Catholic has provided insight. How many of us talk to the priest/ pastor before or after weddings/ baptisms/ funerals, esp at the reception? Having dinner and great conversation with the inlaw’s priest. Sadly, I have lost contact with Roman Catholic nuns/ monks but recall us praying together and sharing the wonderful Sacrament many years ago.

 

[CarolNoel]

But we are NOT in communion, so isn’t it a false gesture to receive communion together when we are so clearly still divided?

I would never receive communion in a church other than my own. Why?

1. I am not Lutheran. Receiving in a Lutheran church WOULD give the false impression that I AM Lutheran. I’m not.
2. My Church has asked me not to and I will respect that. I wouldn’t have chosen this Church if I didn’t trust it to guide me.
3. I do not accept Lutheran teachings. Why on EARTH would I profess to be in communion with a church I don’t agree with?

I do not understand this push and desire to receive communion in churches outside your own. I really don’t. When I was Protestant I NEVER received communion, anywhere, because I never joined any one church and I always felt it was disingenuous to profess unity when I was not in union.

Very well said. I don’t understand why some think they should be able to receive the Eucharist in the Catholic Church when they are not Catholic, or why a Catholic would even consider doing so in a non Catholic church.

 

[Peter_J]

Very well said. I don’t understand why some think they should be able to receive the Eucharist in the Catholic Church when they are not Catholic,

Are you including cases where he/she is unable to get to a priest of his/her own church?

 

[FrDavid96]

Are you including cases where he/she is unable to get to a priest of his/her own church?

1. In my Encyclical Ut Unum Sint I expressed my own appreciation of these norms, which make it possible to provide for the salvation of souls with proper discernment: “It is a source of joy to note that Catholic ministers are able, in certain particular cases, to administer the sacraments of the Eucharist, Penance and Anointing of the Sick to Christians who are not in full communion with the Catholic Church but who greatly desire to receive these sacraments, freely request them and manifest the faith which the Catholic Church professes with regard to these sacraments. Conversely, in specific cases and in particular circumstances, Catholics too can request these same sacraments from ministers of Churches in which these sacraments are valid”.

These conditions, from which no dispensation can be given, must be carefully respected, even though they deal with specific individual cases, because the denial of one or more truths of the faith regarding these sacraments and, among these, the truth regarding the need of the ministerial priesthood for their validity, renders the person asking improperly disposed to legitimately receiving them. And the opposite is also true: Catholics may not receive communion in those communities which lack a valid sacrament of Orders.