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The '''Eucharist''', also called '''Holy Communion''', or the '''Lord's Supper''', is a [[sacrament]] instituted by Christ. It is the summit of Christian worship, and is a meal of bread and wine whereby the consecration during the liturgy by the [[Priesthood (Anglican)|priest]] makes the blessed bread and the blessed wine, the Body and Blood of Christ to his faithful who receive him ''spiritually'' therein. | The '''Eucharist''', also called '''Holy Communion''', or the '''Lord's Supper''', is a [[sacrament]] instituted by Christ. It is the summit of Christian worship, and is a meal of bread and wine whereby the consecration during the liturgy by the [[Priesthood (Anglican)|priest]] makes the blessed bread and the blessed wine, the Body and Blood of Christ to his faithful who receive him ''spiritually'' therein. | ||
== Anglican Theology == | == Anglican Theology == | ||
The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion address the Lord's Supper in four articles. Article XXV declares it a Sacrament instituted by Christ. The remaining articles say: | The [[Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion]] address the Lord's Supper in four articles. Article XXV declares it a Sacrament instituted by Christ. The remaining articles say: | ||
=== Article XXVIII - Of the Lord's Supper === | === Article XXVIII - Of the Lord's Supper === | ||
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The Eucharist, also called Holy Communion, or the Lord's Supper, is a sacrament instituted by Christ. It is the summit of Christian worship, and is a meal of bread and wine whereby the consecration during the liturgy by the priest makes the blessed bread and the blessed wine, the Body and Blood of Christ to his faithful who receive him spiritually therein.
Anglican Theology
The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion address the Lord's Supper in four articles. Article XXV declares it a Sacrament instituted by Christ. The remaining articles say:
Article XXVIII - Of the Lord's Supper
The Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves, one to another, but rather it is a sacrament of our redemption by Christ's death: insomuch that to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith receive the same, the bread which we break is a partaking of the body of Christ, and likewise the cup of blessing is a partaking of the blood of Christ.
Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of bread and wine) in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be proved by Holy Writ, but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions.
The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is faith
The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was not by Christ's ordinance reserved, carried about, lifted up, or worshipped.
Article XXIX - Of the wicked which do not eat the body of Christ, in the use of the Lord's Supper
The wicked and such as be void of a lively faith, although they do carnally and visibly press with their teeth (as S. Augustine saith) the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, yet in no wise are they partakers of Christ, but rather to their condemnation do eat and drink the sign or sacrament of so great a thing.
Article XXX - Of Both Kinds
The Cup of the Lord is not to be denied to the lay people; for both parts of the Lord's sacrament, by Christ's ordinance and commandment, ought to be ministered to all Christian men alike.
The articles also reject the Roman view of the sacrifices of masses in Article XXXI.