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As an ex-Catholic who married a Lutheran girl, the differences I see are that you A) do not kneel during mass, B) don't jenuflect (sp??? kneel & make sign of cross when you're about to get in the pew), and my personal favorite C) don't shake hands or hug during the "show sign of peace" deal. The whole mass is almost identical to the Catholica liturgy. They do have some different ways of taking communion as well, in our church, everybody kneels (10-20 people at once) in front of the altar (putting the commune back into communion) and the pastor goes by dropping a host into everyone's hands, then everybody gets a little drop of wine in a small container (also nice to see compared to my old Catholic church where everybody was drinking wine from the same glass chalice).
Overall, I'm pretty hip on the Lutheran deal, even though I'm not much on religion. I'd say if you closed your eyes you wouldn't be able to tell whether you were in a Lutheran or Catholic church.
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