For the vast majority of Anglicans, the Eucharist (also called “Holy Communion”, “Mass”, the Divine Liturgy, the “Lord’s Supper,” or The Great Thanksgiving), is the central act of gathered worship, the appointed means by which Christ can become present to his church.

The Catholic Church have a firmly established hierarchy while the Anglican Church has no central hierarchy, i.e., there is no priest or church that is considered above all the other. The priest of the Anglican Church can marry whereas the priests, nuns and monks of the Catholic Church must take a vow of celibacy.

The Roman Catholic Church denies Anglicans receiving the Holy Eucharist because the Anglican church does not believe in the transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ at the consecration in the litany of the Mass.

After nearly 500 years of intense division, Anglican and Roman Catholic theologians yesterday declared that one of the two faiths’ most fundamental differences – the position of Mary, the mother of Christ – should no longer divide them.

Anglicanism. The phrase born again is mentioned in the 39 Articles of the Anglican Church in article XV, entitled “Of Christ alone without Sin”. Although the phrase “baptized and born again in Christ” occurs in Article XV, the reference is clearly to the scripture passage in John 3:3.

In the Anglican tradition, confession and absolution is usually a component part of corporate worship, particularly at services of the Holy Eucharist. Private or auricular confession is also practiced by Anglicans and is especially common among Anglo-Catholics.

Salvation is a gift and not something we can merit. Solo Christo (“Christ Alone”) and Soli Deo Gloria (“The Glory of God Alone”). Anglicans believe in Apostolic Succession and that the Anglican/Episcopal Church is an inheritor of the tradition passed down by the saints (2 Thessalonians 2:15).

The church not only retained the core Catholic beliefs common to Reformed doctrine in general, such as the Trinity, the virginal conception of Mary, the nature of Jesus as fully human and divine, the resurrection of Jesus, original sin and excommunication (as affirmed by the Thirty-Nine Articles), but also retained …

Anglicans stand in the Protestant tradition in regard to salvation. They teach the reformed view that salvation occurs by God’s grace through faith in Christ, apart from good works. While Anglicans believe good works are an essential part of the Christian life, they don’t believe good works are essential to salvation.

Anglicans also accept the Nicene Creed and the Apostles’ Creed as essential statements of their beliefs. There are only two sacraments, baptism and the Eucharist, but the Communion honours confirmation, ordination, marriage, reconciliation of the penitent, and unction of the sick as important religious rites.

There are seven sacraments in the Church: Baptism, Confirmation or Chrismation, Eucharist, Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony.”