J Edwards,

The RCC and LC have a similar view of the real presence only if you assume that LC teaches consubstantiation which our confessions and I have repeatedly denied. The Roman Church teaches that the whole Christ is permanently present apart from Christ's institution, is in a comprehensible mode that occupies physical space, and that only the accidents of bread and wine remain. The LC teaches a sacramental union of the body and blood in, with, and under the bread and wine with the mode of His presence being the same mode He used when He passed through the midst of the crowd, left the sealed tomb, and entered a closed room. I see no connection.