What day do you observe the memorial in the U.S. and why?

Question

This question is the primary difference between Jehovah's Witnesses and the rest of Christendom.

JWs, I know you have an overwhelming urge to answer, but please don't for 48 hours.

Those having trouble understanding, put in your answer, than come back in 2 days and see what JWs write.

Answer 1

The most significant "Memorial" one could observe is, of course, the Memorial of Christ's death. It is sometimes called "the Last Supper" or "the Lord's Evening Meal".

(1 Corinthians 11:23-25, NWT) The Lord Jesus in the night in which he was going to be handed over took a loaf... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25 He did likewise respecting the cup.. Keep doing this... in remembrance of me.”

(1 Cor 11:24, 25, NEB) "Do this as a memorial of me.”


Christ Jesus himself personally celebrated and explained the significance of that Last Supper to his followers (see Matthew 26:26-29). Apparently Jesus Christ established the occasion to supercede the Jewish Passover, which occurs after sunset on the 14th of Nisan (a month of the Jewish calendar).

(Luke 22:14-16) At length when the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. 15 And [Jesus] said to them: “I have greatly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer; 16 for I tell you, I will not eat it again until it becomes fulfilled in the kingdom of God.


Sadly, it is only a minority of professed Christians who follow the BIBLICAL pattern for the Last Supper which was established by Christ himself. Sadly, most of Christendom ignores Christ's celebration and instead follow unrelated human traditions which purport to honor Christ, but in ways unconnected with what Jesus Christ established.

Like the former Passover, those Christians who commemorate the Last Supper have also done so on the date corresponding to Nisan 14, which generally falls between late March and mid-April. Interestingly, Christians in the centuries immediately after Christ's impalement were sometimes called "Quartodecimans" which literally mean "fourteen-ers"


There are fundamental differences between the Memorial which Christ Jesus instituted and the so-called "Easter" which Christendom adopted from pagan worship of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre (or Oestre). While most Easter celebrations merely repackage pagan fertility festivals and concentrate on eating, decorating, and frivolity, the Last Supper focuses on the value of Christ's sacrifice and the sober obligation of Christianity.

(Matthew 15:6-9) You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”

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Answer 2

Jesus while celebrating the Passover on Nisan 14, told his disciples to continue doing this, the eating of the bread and the drinking of the wine, in remembrance of him.

So in compliance with the command, and the importance of the date, Jehovah's Witnesses celebrate the Memorial of Christ's death on Nisan 14 per the Jewish lunar calendar.

Since the Passover was celebrated once a year the Memorial is also once a year.

Answer 3

The Jehovah's Witness memorial is celebrated on Nissen (sp?) 14 whichever day that falls on, usually pretty close to Easter.

Answer 4

You did not upload and one that Obama is persevering with even with all claims to end it, suitable? they could word the two. they seem to be a ingredient of our united states now or continually have been and so that they have got the patriotic accountability to a minimum of honor ours. This is going for all cultures who call themselves American.

Answer 5

I am not a Jehovah's Witness....but I do know that they are the only ones who observe the Memorial....the rest of christendom
call it " Easter ! "

Answer 6

Papa - you gotta be more specific... Which memorial??? Veteran's Day memorial was just November 11th....

Can I just say that you look like a very very nice man?!?! For some strange reason, I want to give you a completely platonic man to man hug!! You appear.....wise.

Answer 7

I observe it on Sept. 13, because that's the day I was born, and I am the ultimate American, I've spray painted a cop car.

Answer 8

What memorial are you talking about?

Answer 9

depends what "memorial" your talking about. if your talking about communion; in my church we do it every 13th. Sabbath

Answer 10

i'm ot intressted