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But when we come to the memory of that sacrifice, and fail to discern what we are doing by partaking of that meal, by being crude and unloving toward the very souls that came to Christ by the same humiliating journey, then we have forgotten who we really are, and have drifted from the message of the cross. And that is the nail that Paul is driving home hard. How can you come to this meal as some common pagan food party? Do you not know of what this meal speaks? Can you not discern that the body of Christ, though given up on that tree, is all around you right now, in the person of your fellow believers? And that is why you are wounding Christ again, "guilty of the body and of the blood," when you come with such disregard and lack of love. You ARE wounding His body, the very one you are supposedly honoring by this meal, by playing the hypocrite toward your brother.

The preceding part of the scroll, which a Catholic labeled the tenth chapter, is talking about the cup of blessing, which is the communion of the blood of Messiah, and the breaking of the bread, which is the communion of the body of Messiah in contrast to the Gentile feasts associated with idolatry and fornication (Corinth was notorious). Not only that, there is a clear reference to the altar of sacrifice with respect to the communion.
The Apostle to the Gentiles clearly indicates in the next chapter that there are divisions, as in heresies, among the church at Corinth and focuses on the Lord's Supper and the manner in which they are doing it. He reminds then of what he already taught them in person, orally, not in writing. He must have shown them how to do it correctly. How does your assembly do it ? How often ?
Your explanation about discerning the Lord's body in poorer brethren, though well intentioned, does not fit. One who sins in unworthy communion is also guilty of the blood of the Lord, as well as the body. Surely you don't mean to imply the local church is the blood of Christ, or do you ?

I'm still looking for your explanation as to how the Lord's body is a local assembly but the blood of the Lord is not, did you post it and I missed it, or do you hold the blood of Messiah is an assembly too ?

"Your explanation about discerning the Lord's body in poorer brethren, though well intentioned, does not fit. One who sins in unworthy communion is also guilty of the blood of the Lord, as well as the body. Surely you don't mean to imply the local church is the blood of Christ, or do you ?"

Your explanation about discerning the Lord's body in poorer brethren, though well intentioned, does not fit

That is especially cogent remark, because indeed the admonition is for people who come hungry, therefore the very poor that according to the Protestant theory are supposed to be somehow "discerned"