Rev. William M. Cwirla
Cwirla takes up the ambiguity in the phrase, since sanctorum can mean holy things or holy people, and he keeps both. He puts the holy things first, because the church exists where God gives the Gospel and the Sacraments, and he grounds this in Augsburg Confession VII, the Large Catechism, and the Smalcald Articles’ list of the means of grace. On the Lord’s Supper he holds together the real presence of Christ’s body and blood and the communion it creates, so that those who share the one loaf are made one body with Christ and with one another.