[Chicory]

11:29)

“Not discerning the Lord’s Body...”

If the apparent bread and wine were merely symbols, how could they be discerned as the Body of the Lord? How could consuming them bring damnation to the partakers?

Remember that God is outside of time. Thus He can easily bring the one and only sacrifice of Christ on the cross to many places and times within time. The consecration is not Christ’s sacrifice done again; it is the same once-occurring sacrifice spread through time and space.

And the priest does not “bring” Christ to the altar; he just creates the circumstances by which the sacrifice is spread to the particular time and space.

[BipolarBob]

You are concentrating on the act of consumption of material things instead of ingesting the meaning of His life and sacrifice to a higher level. Making it real in this life of Who He is and what He has done for us. Pray when you wake. Pray when you eat or drink. Thank Him for everything you have but don't make material objects your focal point of worship. That cheapens the worship of the Creator Who has made literally everything. Do not genuflect before the statue of Mary. Do not call a man The Vicar of God. I could go on and on. But you get mu drift.