What's the difference between Episcopalian Eucharist and Catholic Eucharist?

Not only Anglicans/Episcopalians, but some Lutherans and some Methodists (original name "Methodist Episcopal Church") celebrate the Eucharist in a liturgical manner.

Orthodox and Catholic declare that the bread and wine become the pure body and precious blood of Christ. Orthodox have not tried to define it too closely, saying that the bread and wine are "changed". Transubstantiation is a Catholic teaching with much more definition. Others hem and haw a little bit, claiming "real presence" without a real change.

Catholics should only take communion in another Catholic church, BTW, and Orthodox only in an Orthodox Church.

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The difference is the true presence of Christ.

Jesus is truly present, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Eucharist, consecrated at the Catholic Mass.

The others are just memorial services done in remembrance. They are not the same.

<<A deacon at my church told me that Episcopalian sacraments are recognized by the Catholic Church, because they maintain some kind of apostolic succession that carried over even after the split with Rome.

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That deacon is wrong.

The Episcopal church does not believe in transubstantiation; it believes in consubstantiation (and not all branches believe that). That is the basis for why a Catholic cannot accept Communion at an Episcopal church.

The Episcopal Church does not believe in Transubstantiation, which is documented in the Book of Common Prayer, page 873 in the Articles of Religion.

Any Apostolic succession that may have been there when they first split from Rome, is long gone. The ordination of women and active homosexuals is another issue as well.

Only in Catholic and Orthodox Churches, the Eucharist is a Sacrament on which transubstantiation really happens.

There are other denominations that practice the Eucharist such as Episcopalian, Anglican, Lutheran, etc.

Some of these believe it is the actual body of Christ, some think it's just simbolic. Either way, non of these despite what they believe have the real Eucharist, for there was no Apostolic Sucession in them.

So even if they practice and believe it, they don't have the miracle of transubstantiation happening like in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches.

Hope this helped, may God bless you

Episcopalians do celebrate the Eucharist, as do many other Protestants, usually calling it the Lord's Supper. However, it is an invalid celebration of the feast according to Catholic canon law. Whatever any given Episcopalian or Anglican believes about the substance of the Eucharist is much more dependent on what is called their "churchmanship" than on any church doctrine (which is somewhat loose to begin with).

Do Episcopalians Believe In Transubstantiation

A deacon at my church told me that Episcopalian sacraments are recognized by the Catholic Church, because they maintain some kind of apostolic succession that carried over even after the split with Rome.

I know that so called high church Episcopals believe in the real presence. And there is even one parish in my city that left the Episcopal community and became a member of the RCC.

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I will give you the correct answer. Both Lutherans and Episcopalians believe in the real presence just like orthodox and Roman Catholics do. The roman Catholics would not consider it valid because they do not believe Episcopalians or Lutherans have valid orders. Their is some restraint on this position within roman Catholic circles. Episcopalians definitely believe in the real presence but they do not define it as Roman Catholics or Lutherans do. Some Episcopalians believe in transubstantiation, others consubstantiation, implantation, divine union etc. For Episcopalians how it is defined is not as important as what they are receiving. The true body and blood of Christ. The book of common prayer affirms the real presence and any Anglican that says otherwise is an Anglican by name only. We believe in the real presence but are not concerned about defining anything beyond that. As a result multiple views are allowed as long as the view affirms the real presence.

We do not presume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table. But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy: Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.

This is the prayer of humble access from the Eucharistic liturgy in the book of common prayer. Anglicans do not attempt to describe or define these Holy Mysteries in terms of human reason or philosophy. With the ancient and undivided Church, Anglicans simply accept the truth of the Real Presence, that Our Lord's Body and Blood are present and given in the Eucharist, without trying to define or explain the 'manner' or 'way' of the Presence. We can never in this life understand how Our Lord transforms Bread and Wine into His Body and Blood in the Mass, but we must believe the truth that He does, and celebrate and receive this Sacrament faithfully.

It is exactly the same thing, the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.

Some people may claim only the Roman Church has it but that is not true.

We are all catholic, just not Roman. The Body and Blood of Jesus Christ is the same. It actually is. There is no "representation".

At every one of our Services we consecrate bread and wine into the Body and Blood, no matter what people want to trick you into believing.

Same thing. Only real difference between the two is infallibility of thr pope and need for the church to grant divorce.

Lutherans also celebrate the eucharist, I think mostly on Christmansna easter.

they do not believe it to be the body and blood of christ, it is only symbolic, some other denominations also have bread and wine