I think it's a little weird, from my perspective, to focus on "what do I experience". The answer is, well, different things at different times. My heart will be strangely warmed, or the fellowship of the event will be paramount. Or sometimes there might be no particular "feeling" associated. But it isn't about getting some feeling or special spiritual oomph; those are only the icing on the cake. Heck, take Thanksgiving (which is, after all, what "Eucharist" means). Such a meal has a million meanings, all balled up together, and it's weirdly reductionistic to ask "so what exactly do you get out of that holiday meal?"
The Eucharist is spiritual nourishment; it's food for the soul. It's Christ giving himself for me in a tangible form, not contingent on my imagining. It's a renewal of my baptism, at which I claim and am claimed by Christ. It's effects (like those of food) are not just confined to the moment of eating.
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Date: Thursday, 2 December 2004 10:11 am (UTC)The Eucharist is spiritual nourishment; it's food for the soul. It's Christ giving himself for me in a tangible form, not contingent on my imagining. It's a renewal of my baptism, at which I claim and am claimed by Christ. It's effects (like those of food) are not just confined to the moment of eating.