![]() We could remember that even with such a solemn mission given to him, the Savior found delight in living he enjoyed people and told his disciples to be of good cheer. Then, on those days when we feel our progress has halted or our joys and views have grown dim, we can press forward steadfastly in Christ, with unshaken faith in him and a perfect brightness of hope (see 2 Ne. We could remember that he gave sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf and motion to the lame and the maimed and the withered. We could remember Christ’s miracles and his teachings, his healings and his help. If you are serving almost anonymously, please know that so, too, did one of the best men who has ever lived on this earth.ĭ. We could remember his magnificent but virtually unknown foster father, a humble carpenter by trade who taught us, among other things, that quiet, plain, unpretentious people have moved this majestic work forward from the very beginning, and still do so today. We could remember the simple grandeur of his mortal birth to just a young woman, one probably in the age range of those in our Young Women organization, who spoke for every faithful woman in every dispensation of time when she said, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord be it unto me according to thy word” (Luke 1:38).Ĭ. We could remember that even in the Grand Council of Heaven he loved us and was wonderfully strong, that we triumphed even there by the power of Christ and our faith in the blood of the Lamb (see Rev. We could remember the Savior’s premortal life and all that we know him to have done as the great Jehovah, creator of heaven and earth and all things that in them are. ![]() If remembering is the principal task before us, what might come to our memory when those plain and precious emblems are offered to us?Ī. It comes in what has been called “the mostsacred, the most holy, of all the meetings of the Church” (Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, comp. Every ordinance of the gospel focuses in one way or another on the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ, and surely that is why this particular ordinance with all its symbolism and imagery comes to us more readily and more repeatedly than any other in our life. ![]() Elder Holland gives some great ideas of what we can REMEMBER during the sacrament.Ĭlick here for a handout of the quote below that’s just the right size to glue into standard size scriptures.
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