HOLY COMMUNION

Anglo  Lutheran  Catholic  Fellowship  In America 

We Hold That In the Sacrament of the Lord' Supper, we receive the true Body and Blood of Christ, in, with, and under the bread and wine. Therein we are assured of the forgiveness of sin. The reception of Holy Communion is an act of fellowship with the Triune God, wherein we gather with other believers who are one with us in faith and doctrine. Only those who are one in faith and accept the doctrine of faith as set forth in the Holy Scriptures and the Confessions should commune together (closed communion). The practice of open communion is a recent innovation that has no place in the life of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and was not practiced in the early Church