It kind of depends on whether you see communion as the Eucharist, the actual, physical consuming of the body and blood of Christ and that it's necessary for salvation....
or not....
I see both baptism and communion as physical representations of spiritual realities, instituted for us because we humans need to have stuff kept before us and it's a great word picture reminding us of what we have experienced spiritually.
I (and I think bb and others) do not believe that these physical ceremonies CAUSE the spiritual reality to happen. The spiritual reality is a done deal. These show to the world what they are in terms that people can understand. We were commanded by Christ Himself to take communion *in remembrance* of Him and show His death until He comes- a word picture conveying both His first and second coming.
Just a reminder: there’s an important difference between “physical” and “real.”
This is another instance of people saying the Catholic Church’s teaching is something other than what it is.
I think, CAWW, that there is a kind of “prejudice without malice aforethought. We do NOT have the nerve to think we can CAUSE the sacramental presence as though we were magicians conjuring our familiar. Yet we can say “’Real’ not ‘physical’,” and so forth more than seven times a day and it will make no difference at all. Our testimony is considered tainted before we open our mouths.