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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yikes, I am sad when a Lutheran doesn't understand the difference between communion in a Catholic Church and a Lutheran church. That is a pretty big point to miss. [/quote]

Actually, the above statements regarding the difference are accurate.  The RCC teaches that Protestants believe that communion is "symbolic," but this is because that is the RCC view of Protestant communion - it is not the teaching of the Lutheran church.

[i]“Consubstantiation” is a term commonly applied to the Lutheran concept of the communion supper, though some modern Lutheran theologians reject the use of this term because of its ambiguity. The expression, however, is generally associated with Luther. The idea is that in the communion, the body and blood of Christ, and the bread and wine, coexist in union with each other. “Luther illustrated it by the analogy of the iron put into the fire whereby both fire and iron are united in the red-hot iron and yet each continues unchanged” (The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, F.L. Cross, Ed., London: Oxford, 1958, p. 337).[/i]

http://www.christiancourier.com/articles/477-what-are-transubstantiation-and-consubstantiation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharistic_theologies_contrasted

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_does_Transubstantiation_in_the_Catholic_Church_differ_from_Consubstantiation_in_the_Lutheran_Church[/quote]

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