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You wrote:

“I beg to differ. Lutherans most certainly do believe in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. Luther, (a Catholic monk pre-Reformation) said so himself.”

I don’t call Lutherans “Reformed”. I restrict the use of that term to the followers of Calvin. Sorry if you were confused. I probably should have said “Calvinists”.

Took me years and years to sort out the Reformed from the Protestant from the Evangelical ~ and here's how I do it:

The Reformed have the word "reformed" in the name of their church.

The Protestants may or may not say anything about it, but it will never say RC.

Everybody who wants to be an Evangelical can say that, even Catholics these days.

Depending on other factors the folks with "Apostolic" in their title who are NOT Catholic, mean the Deacons give the orders! If they are Catholic, the Deacons still give the orders but within the framework of a church hierachy, and only to each other.

Then, the big one "HOLINESS" ~ not quite sure how that all breaks down but when I was a kid we had the Holy Spirit RC church on one corner and the Pilgrim Holiness on the other corner.

Stayed away from both of them until I figured out that "Holiness" usually never means the same thing as "Holy Spirit", but sometimes it's close.

BTW, we had Syrian Orthodox in the area, and Syrian Catholics, so I knew that among the "hatted hierarchy" there were differences anyone could see. Those guys were married of course.

Khnowing all of that let me say this about that, don't count on any two Christians understanding the same terms in the same way ~ NOT EVER.

The background discussion on this thread lost me because I couldn't tell what was being talked about ~ was it a Protestant Communion or a Catholic Eucharist, and if Protestant, what kind, and if Catholic, was someone in this Orthodox perhaps (detecting some temporal dilation effects due to the translation software)?!

Let me tell you as a general practice I never participate in Communion at any church but my own! It's "closed" more or less, and everybody sits down and passes the plates and the wine.Ecumenical with those guys means someone from an Independent Christian Church!