{"id":77340,"date":"2019-08-22T13:07:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T19:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=77340"},"modified":"2019-08-22T13:07:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T19:07:11","slug":"the-surprising-and-meaningful-history-behind-the-word-sacrament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/08\/the-surprising-and-meaningful-history-behind-the-word-sacrament.html","title":{"rendered":"“The Surprising and Meaningful History Behind the Word ‘Sacrament'”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"Tissot<\/a>
\u201cLa C\u00e9ne. Judas met la main dans le plat\u201d
(\u201cThe Last Supper: Judas Dipping his Hand in the Dish\u201d)
James Tissot, d. 1902 \u00a0 \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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My bi-weekly \u201cDefending the Faith\u201d column appeared in the print edition of the Deseret News<\/em> today and is accessible online via LDS Living<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Surprising and Meaningful History Behind the Word \u2018Sacrament'\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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And you might find this testimony, from Dr. Samuel Brown<\/a>, relevant and helpful:<\/p>\n

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\u201cFrom Atheism to Disfellowship and Back to God: How a Sacrament Prayer Changed Everything for Me\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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When we partake of the sacrament this coming weekend, I hope that we \u2014 I \u2014 will not do so in a rote manner, thoughtlessly, with wandering minds.<\/p>\n

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A video of Elder Gary E. Stevenson\u2019s excellent recent devotional at BYU<\/a> is now available:<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stevenson.gary.e\/videos\/2448528188524286\/<\/p>\n

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***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cChurch Leaders Meet with US Vice President Mike Pence:\u00a0Vice president discusses faith and religious liberty with President Ballard, Elder Rasband and Elder Gerard\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cMost people in trouble end up crying, \u2018What was I thinking?\u2019 Well, whatever they were thinking, they weren\u2019t thinking of Christ. Yet, as members of His Church, we pledge every Sunday of our lives to take upon ourselves His name and promise to \u2018always remember him.\u2019 So let us work a little harder at remembering Him.\u201d \u00a0(Elder\u00a0Jeffrey R. Holland)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cBecause it is broken and torn, each piece of bread is unique, just as the individuals who partake of it are unique. We all have different sins to repent of. We all have different needs to be strengthened through the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ, whom we remember in this ordinance. Strive to think of His sacrifice as specific and unique to you.\u201d \u00a0(President\u00a0Dallin H. Oaks)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen you look on the dictionary for the most important word, do you know what it is? It could be \u2018remember.\u2019 Because all of you have made covenants \u2013 to know what to do and you know how to do it \u2013 our greatest need is to remember. That is why everyone goes to sacrament meeting every Sabbath day.\u201d \u00a0(President\u00a0Spencer W. Kimball)<\/span><\/p>\n

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On 9 November 2017, I published the column to which I link below. \u00a0It is something of a brief profile of Professor Louis C. Midgley, whose important work on the concept of \u201cremembrance\u201d as manifested in the scriptures and in the Gospel of Jesus Christ itself is irreplaceable. \u00a0I offer a brief and perhaps incomplete bibliography of his relevant publications:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe acts of remembering and forgetting\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 My bi-weekly \u201cDefending the Faith\u201d column appeared in the print edition of the Deseret News today and is accessible online via LDS Living: \u00a0 \u201cThe Surprising and Meaningful History Behind the Word \u2018Sacrament’\u201d \u00a0 And you might find this testimony, from Dr. Samuel Brown, relevant and helpful: \u00a0 \u201cFrom Atheism to Disfellowship and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n"The Surprising and Meaningful History Behind the Word 'Sacrament'"<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"    My bi-weekly "Defending the Faith" column appeared in the print edition of the Deseret News today and is accessible online via LDS\" \/>\n<meta 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