![]() That means, then, that with these words the Lord wants to say: go to the Sacrament and learn anew and believe anew why I came to earth, learn anew and believe anew My Incarnation, My deepest humiliation-that is, that according to My humanity I did not use My divine majesty, My lowly birth in the manger in Bethlehem, My circumcision on the 8th day and that it showed I subjected Myself to the law and its dreadful curse, My whole earthly life and work, My bitter suffering and death, My institution of the holy pastoral office and the Blessed Sacrament as its seal. But what does this mean? It means that we should rightly cling to the Savior and His whole work of salvation and truly recall it and truly become absorbed in it. With the words, do this in remembrance of Me, Jesus also says why the Holy Supper is to be celebrated: in His remembrance. ![]() Since the Lord’s Supper is a seal of His sacrifice of grace and a seal of His word of grace, that means that the Lord’s Supper is truly a sea of grace into which every fountain of grace flows into and meets. Paul testifies that the holy Sacrament is a seal of the word of grace when he says that the sacraments are seals of the promise of grace. This is what the Sacrament is: it is a seal of His word of grace, that is, a seal of the Gospel, of the holy Absolution: Your sins are forgiven. Look, as a witness to this, I am giving you the same body to eat and the same blood to drink. When He offers us His body for food and His blood for drink, He is loudly calling to us: This is My body that I sacrificed, which I gave into death for your sins and this is My blood that I sacrificed, which I poured out for the forgiveness of your sins. So what, then, is the holy Supper that we are to celebrate? It is the seal of the validity of Jesus’ sacrifice of grace that He offered on Golgotha for our sins. And what is it, then, that we should do? Celebrate the Sacrament! That is, with our mouths eat and drink His true body and His true blood under the consecrated bread and wine. When the Savior says, do this in remembrance of Me, He tells us two things by it. That’s because they, first of all, show that this blessing is really in the Sacrament. ![]() These words, do this in remembrance of Me, deal with the blessing of the Sacrament-the forgiveness of sins. that all who come according to the Lord’s will unfailingly receive itġ. ![]() that we have great need of this blessing andģ. that this blessing is really in the Sacrament,Ģ. That the words: “do this in remembrance of Me” deal with the blessing of the Sacrament-the forgiveness of sinsġ. These words are the text of our confessional address. But which words of the Words of Institution show this to us? Among others, these words: do this in remembrance of Me. ![]() Yes, but what is this blessing? The forgiveness of sins. Whoever believes that Jesus Christ is true God and man, our Savior, our Brother, our Bridegroom, and that His words, this is My body, this is My blood, are true, that is, that in the Holy Supper under the bread and wine Jesus’ true body and true blood are truly present and are orally eaten and drunk by the communicants: must also acknowledge that there must be a blessing, in fact a great blessing in the sacrament. Luke 22.19- And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is My body which is given for you do this in remembrance of Me." ![]()
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