And at the Communion we receive his Ascended Body in the Blessed Sacrament under the outward forms of bread and wine, so that we may truly become what we already are – the Body of Christ.  So St Augustine the Great told his flock in North Africa in one of his sermons, “If you have received well, you are that which you have received”. (2)

Or, in the words of St Paul, “The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?  Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread” (NRSV, 1 Corinthians 10:16b, 17).

To put the same truth from another point of view: we who are already the children of God through our Baptism become truly his children by faithfully receiving the Son of God himself in the Blessed Sacrament.