In the parable, no strictly doctrinal error is charged against the reprobate: they are outwardly orthodox. Their failure to discern the Lord’s body, however, means also their failure to discern the Lord. Today, in one Christian group after another, there are sick and elderly people who are neglected. Their shopping and housecleaning need to be done: there is a practical way of discerning the Lord’s body which goes daily neglected. In Calvin’s last communion, his prayer of invocation balances forgiveness