I was a "Protestant" for 20 years -- granted, a "non-denominational" one, but, I assure, communion in that groupd meant nothing - it was symbolic. I sat there and puzzled over it for years. I realized it was a game. It was then I knew I needed to find out what "Communion" really is. Holy Communion.
Catholocism reeks with rote symbolism.
How do you explain Kennedy, Biden, Pelosi and other "good Catholics" who vote to kill fetuses and show up for "Holy Communion?"
One of my Catholic friends who went to Catholic boarding schools, said this about the Catholic Church: All my life I've heard, "The church says this and the church says that" and one day I realized "The Church" is a bunch of old men sitting in Rome and they know nothing about real life or real problems.
Here is what a leading Anglican convert to Catholicism and a towering intellectual of his time wrote:
Cardinal Newman, 1848: “To me, nothing is so consoling, so piercing, so thrilling, so overcoming, as the Mass, said as it is among us. I could attend Mass for ever, and not be tired. It is not a mere form of words, – it is a great action, the greatest action there can be on earth. It is not the invocation only, but, if I dare to use the word, the evocation of the Eternal. He becomes present on the altar in flesh and blood, before whom angels bow and devils tremble.”
“I realized it was a game.”
Sort of like indulgences and purgatory.