**So then all of those who eat the communion wafer in Lutheran, Episcopalian, Methodist, all churches and denominations, not just Catholic churches, "shall live forever"?**
Have you checked out the validity of this statement??
Only the Catholic Church has the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.
Once an Episcopal priest celebrated a "Mass" for us, a group of Catholics performing a grief ministry weekend, I would not go forward to receive the Communion because I knew it was invalid.
So everyone else is just wasting their time having Communion in their churches?
"Only the Catholic Church has the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist."
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"Once an Episcopal priest celebrated a "Mass" for us, a group of Catholics performing a grief ministry weekend, I would not go forward to receive the Communion because I knew it was invalid."
I agree that it was invalid, though for some very specific reasons. What difference, therefore, did it make if you partook or not? Suppose it had been an Orthodox priest. What would you have done then?