Biblical Text: Luke 22:1-20
Remember is a consistent word used in the institution of the Lord’s Supper. If there is one thing the Reformation – really the enlightenment that followed – really distorted was remembrance. And it did so because it tends to reduce humans to minds alone. Remembrance becomes a mental activity only. Which is not what it would be to any religious person anywhere before the 17th century. Remembrance is making real, tonight, what might have happened originally long ago, but it also happens tonight. The Jew remembers the Passover by holding the same meal. And they too are brought out of slavery and saved from the Angel of Death by the blood of the lamb. After the reformation remembrance can get co-opted into a “memorial meal”, a mental construct. When this meal is to be something real. It gives us the body and blood of Christ. It gives to us his very heart, to our very heart.
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