William Foy has a nice piece up about the deep disconnect between what the Sacrament of the Altar offers (life) and what people are afraid of (sickness and death). You can read “Life in the Sacrament of the Altar” here. Thanks to one of our teachers at Immanuel, Trent, for alerting me to it. After reading it, I began to prepare for tonight’s class with the three young people who will soon be confirmed, and as I paged through my Small Catechism happened upon this beautiful quote from the Large Catechism: We must never regard the sacrament as a harmful thing from which we should flee, but as a pure, wholesome, soothing medicine which aids and quickens us in both soul and body. For where…