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The context is the context. Paul is writing about relationships with fellow believers and how to approach the Lord's Supper. There are relationship considerations for every believer, for the failure to consider other believers in the context of the Lord's Supper is condemned by Paul.

Indeed, for while RCs only see "this is my body" out of which they contrive a form of endocannibalism, as i have often shown before by God's grace, what the context of 1 Cor. 11:19-34, most clearly teaches is that believers are to effectually recognize that the church is the body of Christ

And which is to show (declare, proclaim) the Lord's death by how they take part in the communal "feast of charity," (cf. Jude. 1:12) showing their unity with Him and each other with unselfish love, which Christ supremely showed in purchasing the church with His sinless shed blood. (cf. Acts 20:28)

Thus the sin of some was not effectually recognizing others as part of that body for whom Christ died, but going ahead and selfishly eating independent of others, even shaming them that have not. Thus the nature of the elements was not the focus, but it was that of the corporate body of Christ, which is also the focus in the proceeding chapter 12, and which was the reason why Paul also said "I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." (1Co. 8:13)

Moreover, instead of dispensing bread as part of their ordained function, the primary work of NT pastors is prayer and preaching, (Acts 6:3,4) to "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine." (2 Timothy 4:2)

And which is what is said to "nourish" the souls of believers, and believing it is how the lost obtain life in themselves. (1 Timothy 4:6; Psalms 19:7;Acts 15:7-9)

Thanks be to God. Thus formally identifying a distinctive class of Christian clergy as “priests” rather than “presbyters” (elders) is not only grammatically incorrect by it is functionally unwarranted and unscriptural.

Even the Catholic NAB notes states concerning v. 28 states:

The self-testing required for proper eating involves discerning the body (1 Cor 11:29), which, from the context, must mean understanding the sense of Jesus’ death (1 Cor 11:26), perceiving the imperative to unity that follows from the fact that Jesus gives himself to all and requires us to repeat his sacrifice in the same spirit (1 Cor 11:18–25). - http://usccb.org/bible/1corinthians/11

Thus the sin of some was not effectually recognizing others as part of that body for whom Christ died, but going ahead and selfishly eating independent of others, even shaming them that have not.

And isn't that what many Catholics do to the Christians here?

And even in post #3398 above, even calling for the deaths of those that deny the worshiping of the "Host" purported to actually BE Jesus Christ. (Blaspheme unto itself)

"They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again. Those, therefore, who speak against this gift of God, incur death in the midst of their disputes. " --St. Ignatius (110 A.D.)