I cannot get your point. We agree that having a party during the remembrance celebration is a gross, despicable practice. If you are saying that Paul is claiming the bread has become the body of Christ, your claim is a leap of extraordinary proportions. His argument is that they don’t recognize the significance of their mockery. Notice, no mention anywhere of a certain man, trained by Rome, assigned to a certain office, lifting the bread and wine up and saying words over them to transubstantiate them into something else.
I believe that the Eucharist is Christ and that the priest confects the Eucharist.
You believe it is a symbol and since I was once a protestant I guess I can understand why. When the only thing you have to follow Christ is a book then of course you cannot believe in anything else. But what really mystifies me is since we don’t have all of the writings of the apostles, how can you know what is missing?
As John Cardinal Newman put it when he converted to the Catholic Church, “To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.”
You are not going to change my mind and I’m sure that I am not going to change yours.