Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

Secondly, we share in the altar of sacrifice of our High Priest, the Paschal Lamb, in going to the sacrament of his body and blood. We go to the sacrament as going to our death, for when you bite into that bread, you bit into the cross of the One who made the sacrifice once and for all time including this time now of biting! They who eat the sacrifice are sharers in the altar (1 Cor. 10). He who poured out his blood for us is our life, for "the life is in the blood." He joins this blessed cup and this blessed bread of the Lord's Supper into the communion of his body and his blood. He, our cook and food of that meal, is also the deacon who serves us. He is the fountain of love that bakes us into one loaf. -- Kenneth Korby, *The Pastoral Office and the Priesthood of Believers*