The Sacrament

The importance of the Sacrament, how to prepare for it and make the experience more Holy.

The Sacrament is the most important of the covenants we make with God. Can we be have eternal life by just being baptized? The Savior said that only if we decided to partake of his blood and flesh then we can have eternal life.

In John 6:53_58 we read.

53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye aeat the flesh of the bSon of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

54 Whoso eateth my aflesh, and drinketh my bblood, hath eternal life; cand I will draise him up at the last day.

55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, adwelleth in me, and I in him.

57 As the living Father hath asent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall blive by me.

58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

The Sacrament is the most sacred and holy of all the meetings at the chapel. There is this video, that can be good to watch up to minute 1, Purposes of Sacrament Meeting.

Here are some notes I want to shared about a talk by Elder Peter F. Meurs, one of the seventies, “How the Sacrament can help us to became Holy”

• On Saturdays: contemplate our spiritual progress. What are some questions we can ask ourselves?

• On Sunday arrive early to the chapel. And ponder as the prelude music is played. President Boyd K. Packer taught: “Prelude music, reverently played, is nourishment for the spirit. It invites inspiration.”1 “This is not a time,” President Russell M. Nelson explained, “for conversation or transmission of messages but a period of prayerful meditation as leaders and members prepare spiritually for the sacrament.”

• Sing and Learn the Words or the Sacrament Hymn. Music elevates our thoughts and feelings. As we sing a hymn in preparation to partake of the emblems, the words can become part of our covenant commitment.

• “As Now We Take the Sacrament,” Hymns, no. 169.
• “Bruised, broken, torn for us
• Let us remember and be sure our hearts and hands are clean and pure
• Where justice, love, mercy meet in harmony divine.

• Spiritually participate in the sacrament prayers. Considering the commitments and blessings included in these prayers.

• To remember the

• bread. Which qualify all for resurrection.
• blood. So that we might be redeemed on condition of repentance.

• Covenants:

• “That they are willing” (Moroni 4:3). Are we willing to address our weakness? Are we willing to reach out and bless others? Are we willing to trust the Savior?
•           1. Take upon ourselves the name of Jesus Christ.
•           2. Strive to keep all of His commandments.
•           3. Always remember Him.

• Promise
• We will always have his Spirit to be with us.
• What are the fruits of the spirit? Paul wrote, “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, [and] temperance” (Galatians 5:22–23).

• Ponder and Remember Him as the Sacrament Emblems Are Passed

• The reverent moments as priesthood holders pass the sacrament can become sacred to us.
• As the bread is passed, we may contemplate that in the ultimate act of love for us, the Savior took “upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people” (Alma 7:12).
• We may remember the glorious blessing of the Resurrection that “shall come to all, … both bond and free, both male and female, both the wicked and the righteous; and even there shall not so much as a hair of their heads be lost; but every thing shall be restored to its perfect frame” (Alma 11:44).
• As the water is passed, we may remember the plea of the Savior:
• “Behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; …
• “Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit—and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink” (D&C 19:16, 18).
• We remember that He took “upon him [our] infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to [our] infirmities” (Alma 7:12).
• As we consider our sacrament experience, we might ask ourselves: What will I do this week to better prepare for the sacrament?
• Could I contribute more to the reverence and revelation that can accompany the beginning of sacrament meeting?
• What doctrine was taught in the sacrament hymn?
• What did I hear and feel as I listened to the sacrament prayers?
• What did I think about as the sacrament was passed?

I want to suggest this cool  and fun video about the Sacrament by Children’s Narrative.