{"id":6769,"date":"2019-03-24T12:50:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T12:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygodchristahnsahnghong.com\/?p=6769"},"modified":"2019-03-24T12:50:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T12:50:48","slug":"when-should-we-celebrate-the-lords-supper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygodchristahnsahnghong.com\/2019\/03\/24\/when-should-we-celebrate-the-lords-supper\/","title":{"rendered":"When should we celebrate the Lord’s Supper?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Holy Communion or the Lord’s Supper is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches, and as an ordinance in others. According to the New Testament, the rite was instituted by Jesus Christ during the Last Supper; giving his disciples bread and wine during the Passover meal, Jesus commanded his followers to “do this in memory of me” while referring to the bread as “my body” and the cup of wine as “the new covenant in my blood” (Source: Wikipedia.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When do we have to eat the Lord’s Supper? Is it correct to have it on Sunday? Unfortunately, it’s totally wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second century Gentile churches followed two calendar traditions concerning Passover. Almost all of the churches in Asia (where Paul devoted much of his ministry [1 Cor 16:8, 19; Acts 19:10, 26), as well as churches in Asia Minor, Cilicia, Syria, Judea (until c. 135) and Mesopotamia, observed Passover in accordance with the Jewish calendar, on the fourteenth day of the first month, the month of Nissan (Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.23.1; 5:24:1; Athanasius, Syn. 2; Epiphanius, Pan. 70.9.8-9; 10.3-5; Theodoret, Haer. Fab. Comp. 3.4; see Cantalamessa 1993:128b).1 Far from being a minor schismatic group, Gentile Christians who celebrated Passover on Nissan 14 stretched across a vast geographic region that represented the heartland of apostolic Christianity.<\/p>Source: The Passover Controversy in the East and West (https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/500dc7e1c4aac913a35a0c2c\/t\/541a54d4e4b09b50ed979f44\/1411011796553\/Passover+Controversy+in+the+East+and+West.pdf)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Jesus and the disciples kept the Passover by eating the bread and drinking the wine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, \u201cWhere do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?\u201d … While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, \u201cTake and eat; this is my body.\u201d Then he [Jesus] took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, \u201cDrink from it, all of you. 28 This is my blood of the covenant [the New Covenant in Luke 22:20], which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins….” (Matthew 26:17-28)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In fact, the term “Holy Communion” or “Eucharist” is not a correct one. The correct term for this rite is the Passover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some might think it’s a feast of the Old Testament. However, Jesus established the Passover of the New Testament with the bread and the cup of wine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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