“It is to simply know that we are before God himself and that He came to us and that we are undeserving,” - I disagree with the rationale. Jesus instituted the Eucharist as an invitation to join him and share in his love. He was aware of the suffering he was about to endure. He wanted us to love both Him and the Father through the Eucharist. Before there were hosts as we know them, there was the breaking and tearing of bread between members. Reception of the Eucharist is a matter of education in reverence, the act of kneeling and tongue reception does not mean reverence actually exists. I was raised in the old ways. Kneeling and tongue reception at the time were just mechanical forms of submission, not from the heart.