As for the local church in which I am worshipping in, we do
participate in the Eucharist weekly, though without the
holy wafers as the Bread. What we have is unleavened bread. As a
Protestant congregation, we simply subscribe to the doctrine of the
Communion as a memorial, instead of the Catholic doctrine of
transubstantation, which
devotes to the Real Presence of the Body and Blood of Christ.
Besides, my local church do not take the position of the Eucharist
as a sacrament, but more
of an ordinance, a mere
symbol which do not infuse grace into the believer who participates
in it.
Personally, I believe the transubstantation doctrine of the
Eucharist as closer to the Communion in which the early historical
church practised.
Sometimes I am irked by the many anti-Catholic views of my
Protestant brethren, who have accused falsely of the claims of the
Holy Mother Church, even without doing the necessary homework to
justify such a polemic.
Smacking of poor scholarship and anti-intellectualism, we have
build caricatures of straw, convenient though they are, and tear
them down. But what we tear down, isn't the genuine article, but a
misrepresentation. That has been the weakness, a moral flaw, of
many a Protestant believer - not only towards Roman Catholicism,
but of other religious traditions as well, such as Islam
(Christians having gross ideas of what Islam is, which in reality
is not).
May God in His mercy forgive us of our hypocrisy and pharisaical
attitude. Help us learn to forgive, express charity, and
love.
