“Communion is not only a matter between the Lord and me, it is an act of communion with Christ in community. When I receive Holy Communion I also unite myself with a body of believers and with their doctrinal teaching, worship, life of discipline, and leadership. In partaking of Holy Communion…We also unite ourselves to all the true members of that particular communion, past, present, and future. Put simply, we become a “member” of that church.”
(Fr. Michael Shanbour) [True Church; Tradition]

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