Nicholas Cabasilas, a fourteenth-century Greek theologian, confessed the sacramental presence of the Lord’s Supper as ‘the most holy Body of the Lord, which really suffered the outrages, insults and blows; which was crucified and slain, which under Pontius Pilate bore such splendid witness; that Body which was mocked, scourged, spat upon, and which tasted gall. In like manner the wine has become the blood which flowed from that Body. It is that Body and Blood formed by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, which was buried, which rose again on the third day, which ascended into heaven and sits on the right hand of the Father.” Although this is from a Greek theologian, this is also a Lutheran understanding of what we receive in Holy Communion. The very Body and Blood of Christ transforming us by His grace through faith. Nicholas Cabasilas, A Commentary on the Divine Liturgy, 70 as quoted by John Stephenson, The Lord’s Supper, 43 n. 11.