It is as a baptized member of the Christian community that the individual Christian receives the Holy Communion, and it is precisely the sacrificial giving up of oneself for Christ and for the sake of His Bride the Church that our reception of the Holy Communion implies. We receive it not only so that God might strengthen us individually in faith toward Him, but also that He might increase our fervent love to one another. -- Arthur Carl Piepkorn, *The Church* p. 240
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