Did Jesus mean for the memorial of his death to be kept perhaps everyday or every week?

Question

Jesus did not specifically state how often the Memorial of his death was to be kept. However, he instituted it on the date of the Jewish Passover, which was replaced amoung his disciples by the Memorial of Christ's death. The passover was an annual event, celebrated on Nissan 14. Similarly, the Jewish Festival of Unfermented Cakes, the Festival of Weeks (Pentecost), the Festival of Booths, or Ingathering, and the Day of Atonement were all held once a year.

Does that not make sense then that it would be a yearly event? To me it makes sense that the bread and wine would be passed yearly on Nissan 14.

Answer 1

Should Jesus’ death be commemorated weekly or perhaps even daily? Well, Christ instituted the Lord’s Evening Meal and was unjustly put to death on Passover Day. Held only once a year, on Nisan 14, the Passover commemorated Israel’s deliverance from Egyptian bondage. So the death of “Jesus" should be memorialized only once each year, not weekly or daily. (1 Corinthians 5:7) In observing the Lord’s Evening Meal, Christians follow the same procedure as Jesus did when he instituted it.

Jesus died on the day of the Jewish Passover, which was held once a year. Appropriately, Paul referred to Jesus as “Christ our passover,” since Jesus’ sacrificial death opened the way to life for spiritual Israel, just as the first Passover sacrifice preserved alive the natural Israelites’ firstborn in Egypt and opened the way for the nation’s release from slavery. (Galatians 6:16) This connection with the annual Jewish Passover is further evidence that the Memorial of Jesus’ death should be observed just once a year.

Answer 2

Once a year. Jesus and his 11 Apostles had the Memorial on Nisan 14 at sunset right after the Passover. The Memorial of his death was to take the place of the Passover which is celebrated once a year.

Answer 3

It was observed during the Passover of sun down of Nisan 14 (2nd April 2007 this year)
The memorial of Jesus' death was to be observed annually.
The Passover was started during the Exodus of Jews from Egypt and continued annually to the night before Jesus Christ was arrested. As the Passover was an annual observance and Jesus said keep doing this then it is correct to observe the Memorial of Christ's death each year on the Jewish calendar date of Nisan 14.

Some churches think you should do it every week or so and they do not observe the Passover Memorial of Christ's death but his resurrection of Easter (originally the spring festival in honor of the Teutonic goddess of light and spring known in Anglo-Saxon as Eastre)

Truely keeping with Christ's command is the superior occasion which is why I with my congregation and others earth wide only observe the Passover Memorial.

Answer 4

Jesus celebrated the last Passover with his disciples on Nisan 14, 33 ce and gave them the command to continue to do this as a remembrance of him.
The Passover was celebrated only once a year.
So too today, the Memorial is celebrated only once a year on that would be Nisan 14 by our lunar calender.

Answer 5

No. He instituted it on the occasion of the Passover. It was meant to be observed annually, just as the Passover was an annual celebration.

Answer 6

Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. . . . Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. (Jn 6:53-57)

For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, 'This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.' In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, 'This cup is the new convenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.' For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

Just as in the prayer Our Father

Our father who art in heaven
hallowed be thy name
thy kingdom come
thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven

"Give us this day our daily bread"(Jesus is our daily bread in the form of the Eucharist)

and forgive us our sins as we
forgive those who sin against us
lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil

Answer 7

Every meal.
The weekly Eucharistic celebration evolved out of the weekly feast celebrated by Christians. But Jesus was referring to the breaking of bread.

Answer 8

He did say this do as "oft" as ye drink this cup and eat his bread

Answer 9

I belive every month. of course thank him for food and such. but communion if celebrated all the time loses its meaning. Imagine if we celebrated his birth everyday.

Answer 10

I think he meant whatever was convinent for us. He never sepcified. Though church's say you have keep his death at least each week