There are lots of people that believe or have been taught that when we take Holy Communion such as in a church, that the bread and wine we so ingest, represents the body and blood of Christ. The problem with this belief is that it is important to recognize that the body and blood of Christ, as initiated through Holy Communion, is always meant, at best, to be seen figuratively, not ever literally. Indeed, the body and blood of Christ, should more appropriately be seen in Holy Communion as an opportunity for those that are adherents of Christianity to take into their being, the very principles and good consciousness of Christ, rather than to be considered to be ingesting the physical embodiment of Christ, symbolic or not. To understand this correctly thus makes Holy Communion, a sacred act, meant to enlighten us, so as to comprehend that there is nothing of more importance than to carry out the principles of Christ, as well as to take into our mind, the consciousness of what Christ so represented and continues to represent as our masterful guiding light.
Look, the Bible is subject to all sorts of interpretation, some of which are quite good, and some of which, are misguided and wrong. To somehow believe, then, that Holy Communion should be seen as symbolically indicating that we are taking into ourselves, the body and blood of Christ, is wrong. The importance of Christ, is not ever really His body or His blood, but rather what is of importance is what Christ so brought to society in the sense of wisdom, of justice, and of supreme insight, which is in its essence, eternal and not corporal. It is thus the acts and the perceptions from Christ that merits our respect and this is the proximate reason why Christianity was thereby subsequently formulated as a religion.
In western society, there is forever a desire to not only simplify that which should not be simplified, but also to provide to the “faithful” with what appears to be a shortcut to enlightenment which is itself then considered to be in fair conformance to the chosen expressed ideology. The Holy Communion so held in church should be basically seen as a ceremony of the Christian faith, but it does so require the correct interpretation of what Holy Communion really is or else it serves no good purpose. That is why it must be impressed upon the congregants that the body and blood of Christ, is not held in a little wafer or in grape juice, but instead these are just symbols meant to uplift us so as to have the steadfastness to take in the very principles and consciousness of Christ. Remember this well, that which is Christ, is freely available to every one of us, of which, what is lacking from us, is often the faith and belief that are mandatory in order to receive this invaluable gift, which is why we participate in Holy Communion, again and again, with the implicit understanding that our unalienable talents will never come to full fruition, until our consciousness rises to the attunement of the risen Christ.