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You forget the priesthood of all believers. I believe Jesus is present Body and Blood in His supper, in with and under the bread and the wine. God created the physical universe and He knows we are physical creatures. Communion is grace = grace we can see, feel, smell and taste. It is important that our Lord comes to His physical creatures in a physical way.

Does that mean we worship the elements? Of course not. The focus is not on the elements or who distributes them. The focus is on the Lord who is truly present in His Supper = just as He said. I do not entirely understand how this happens, but then I don’t expect to entirely understand God with my limited understanding. I can however simply believe and come to His Table as He commands.

John 6:61 And Jesus having known in himself that his disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, ‘Doth this stumble you? 62 if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before? 63 the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;

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The “Last Supper” was not a passover meal (seder), it was wine and a barley loaf if one is to believe the Greek texts. (IOW a routine meal for a group of Jewish men)

He asked that we eat every such meal in remembrance of him.
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You stated, “Communion is grace = grace we can see, feel, smell and taste. It is important that our Lord comes to His physical creatures in a physical way.” In light of the passage just offered, perhaps you would rethink your assertion. JESUS identified the breaking of bread in His name and the drinking the cup OF WINE in His name is our REMEBRANCE until He returns for us. We are not to strike the rock twice ... (reference to Moses and the Rock where water flowed by God's Grace). Jesus is at the right hand of The Father, IN HEAVEN, not being continuously murdered and eaten at Catholic or any other altars. JESUS told you that it is The Spirit that gives life, not eating His literal flesh and drinking His Sacred Blood. JESUS told you what was in the cup was wine, and He went further to tell you He would not again drink of the vine until doing so with them in The Kingdom. BTW, the symbolic cup was always poured out in the Passover meal which Jesus changed to a remembrance of His sacrifice for us which He finished the next day. The proof that He finished it is in His Resurrection, not in signs and lying wonders related to bread and wine.

He is not in the Supper. He is in Heaven, and "priests" cannot invoke Him to come from that sphere to this. The Breaking of Bread in Remembrance is just that: showing forth His deat TILL HE COME (1 Cor. 11:26). Who Is here is my indwelling Comforter, continually drawing my attention to Him, Who is in Heaven, seated at the right hand of the Father.

The things you are saying not only do not make sense, they impugn the truth of the Bible.