“IF it were true (I say it is not) that only a “priesthood” having what men view as proper enough Apostolic succession can preside over the consecration and partaking of the bread & wine, that would bar everyone not “Catholic” from participation in the Lord’s Supper — which is serious”
You’re right it is serious and that’s why only Catholics can participate in the Eucharist. You want to participate? Become Catholic. But in the meantime I suggest you quit criticizing Catholics for something they have been doing for 2,000 years.
I suggest your own lip -- ZIP IT!
Then READ the entire conversation I had with here with another, and understand it.
Then, with the lip still zipped (when or if thine snout swing towards my own direction) read on Afikoman, begin there and take a three-hour tour digging deep into the subject --- and perhaps the lights will come on, and with light, then you too may "see" what the disciples saw.
They were Hebrews, do not forget, and this was their religion.
Christ spoke to them always in context of that which had come before...
Then He said to them, With fervent desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; for I say to you, I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
I have been given grace to eat of the hidden manna. Have you?
But I am not "Catholic" in that I have ever been a Roman one. Yet I have "participated" as have many others not "Catholic" such as you indicate is perquisite ----in which you could not be more wrong.