My point is precisely that that's wrong. In fact, there was a "ritual" there already, called the Haggadah. Holy Communion was added to that ritual by Jesus himself at the last supper. Later on, other prayers were added, and the whole thing was adapted to celebrations other than that of Passover.
The whole process was very, very far along by AD 400. If the Mass is a ritual we invented, your NT is a book we invented, because they came into existence in the same period of time.
Breaking the bread and drinking the wine, which represents the spilled blood is the key...Breaking and drinking
The key to what? Why bother to eat a snack to remember Jesus? Jesus wasn't a snack.
If you think what we do is ludicrous, I don't see that what you do is any less ludicrous.
Jesus didn't become the Passover Lamb until He was sacrificed...The communion was not only to be done along with the Haggadah but whenever bread was broken, to remember the sacrifice...
1Co 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
The key to what? Why bother to eat a snack to remember Jesus? Jesus wasn't a snack.
The key to the reason for breaking the breaking the bread and drinking from the cup...
The breaking of the bread represents His broken body and the cup represents His shed blood...IF you just stick a cracker in your mouth, and don't bother drinking from the cup, what do you get out of it???