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On the last night of Jesus Christ’s death, he met with his apostles and blessed bread and wine and gave it to them. Jesus also did this with the Nephites when he was resurrected. We now call this the sacrament.
The sacrament is an ordnance in which members of his church partake of bread and water to remember the ultimate sacrifice which Jesus made. Through this ordnance, we can renew our covenants in which we made with God at baptism.
The bread represents the body of Christ and it is a reminder of the suffering that he faced. The water represents the blood of him and the suffering he felt in the garden. (Luke 22:19–20).
The bread doesn’t turn into his body and the water doesn’t turn into his blood. The religions that think this are unfortunately incorrect about this and it is an idea made from man.
In D&C 20: 77,79 we are given the prayers that we are to say to bless the bread and water. This is the only way to bless the sacrament. In situations where bread or water are not available, you can basically use anything else to represent them.
The sacrament is so important because without it, we would not be able to re-promise the things that we made when we were baptized as well as having a time to reflect about our past week and hopefully find out how we can become better. The sacrament is technically a way of getting rebaptized because you are re-making the promise you made with him when you were baptized.
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