text: Personally I feel sad that Lutherans and Anglicans/Episcopalians are excluded from our communion table because their Eucharistic theology is not as elaborate as ours. Even the Wesleyan (Methodist) tradition affirms the reality of Christ's presence in the elements of bread and wine, although it doesn’t claim to be able to explain it fully. The deeper issue, or so it seems to me, is that even if Lutherans were welcomed to our tables,  Catholics would still be forbidden by the bishops to receive communion at their services due to the Church’s rejection of the validity of their ordinations. Of course, there’s more that divides us. . . but not enough room to expound.