Catholics: If you consider Evangelicals your brothers and sisters in Christ, then

Baptism is a prerequisite to experience the whole of the Christian life including the Eucharist.

Separated Christians are asked not to receive the Eucharist because in the eyes of the Church their baptism is not complete. Catholic baptism is completed by the sacrament of confirmation.

In addition it is likely separated Christians are not quite in a state of grace, since they have probably never attended Mass. The Catechism requires those who receive the sacrament to be in a state of grace, as St. Paul comments in 1 Corinthians.

Perhaps an analogy would help:

If you want to eat food with your family, you have to come sit at the table. The family is the Church; the table is the table of communion. Protestants are our brothers and sisters in our family, but they have chosen not to sit at the table. In fact, they deny there is such a table and seem to think it a weird idea that anything more than sharing certain beliefs is necessary for Christian communion.
 
I do consider evangelicals to be my brothers and sisters, assuming they are baptized into God's family and take Jesus seriously.

However, most evangelicals neither understand Jesus' teaching about the Eucharist nor take it seriously.

John 6: 53Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. 57Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever."

Jesus' insistence shows he was speaking literally. The bread actually changes into the body of Christ, the bread of life. Most evangelicals think the Eucharist is just a symbol rather than the body of God.

Paul discusses the problem of eating the body of Christ carelessly in I Cor 11: 27Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. 28A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. 29For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself. 30That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.

Cheers,
Bruce
 
Because receiving God Himself while thinking you are simply having a bread and wine snack would be a form of sacrilege - treating something sacred in a common or disrespectful manner - and there is nothing else on this earth as sacred as the Eucharist - God Himself physically present among us! Since Evangelicals have rejected the teaching of the original Christian Church on this matter and many others, which every Christian on earth believed for 1,500 years after Christ, why would they want to participate in that which they have rejected? Why would they want to have the priest present the Eucharist to them and say "The Body of Christ"? Why would they want to respond "Amen", meaning "Yes, I believe"? It would be a lie!
 
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