The Broken Body and the United Church
Illustration★★★★Our sectarianism has . . . reduced the Lord’s Supper to a sentimental act of individual memory, instead of the sacramental act of communion of the whole Body of Christ in which each member participates. The broken body, sym- bolized by the breaking of bread, is—strange paradox—the united body of the church! The broken bread spells the unbroken body. It can be received only by the unbroken body.
And a church in schism can receive it in truth only as it deliberately and by conscious intention confesses the incompleteness of its offering so long as it is in schism, and enlarges its communion beyond the boundaries of its own sect, so as to embrace, potentially, all those who belong to the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord’s Supper belongs to the church’s catholicity, it is a function of catholicity, and it cannot be fully complete until its every celebration is an act of a church that is holy and catholic: Charles Clayton Morrison 198
The point
Charles Clayton Morrison argues that sectarianism has reduced the Lord's Supper to individual memory rather than sacramental communion of the whole Body of Christ. The broken bread symbolizes the unbroken church; true communion confesses incompleteness in schism and embraces all who belong to Christ, making the Lord's Supper a function of church catholicity.