In the community of the Church, as it is realized in the Supper, we are dealing with a spiritual and physical state of affairs between Christ and believers that affects the whole man according to soul and body, and the whole Christ according to His divine and human natures. This community is only realized if it is actually the case that the whole Christ is really present according to both his divine and human natures, that there is a genuine oral eating of the true body and blood of the Lord, that his corporeality miraculously enters into ours, and that the Sacrament has an effect on both body and soul. -- Hermann Sasse, *The Lonely Way* vol. 1 p. 424
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