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Like many people, I attended church while growing up. As a result, my understanding of the whole concept of communion was limited to what my religious teachers taught me in Sunday school and what I observed as a parishioner during church services.
In my little boy’s mind, communion was nothing other than an overly formal ritual in which consecrated bread and wine were consumed to symbolize the body and blood of Christ and to memorialize his sacrifice for us on the Cross. To their credit, my Sunday school teachers also taught me that the Eucharist was a symbol of the eternal spiritual union between Christ and his devotees.
However, for me, something about the whole practice felt intuitively hollow and…