Neither bare nor empty

"I never said of the whole supper that it is but a signification or a bare memory of Christ’s death, but I teach that it is a spiritual refreshing wherein our souls be fed and nourished with Christ’s very flesh and blood to eternal life" - Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, first reformed Archbishop of Canterbury.

"We feed not the people of God with bare signs and symbols but teach them that the sacraments of Christ be holy mysteries . . . that Christ’s body and blood indeed and verily is given unto us, that we verily eat it; that we verily drink it" - Bishop John Jewel, author of the Apology of the Church of England.