"DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME."
It doesn't get any plainer than that. YAWN.
Stop rebelling, Mom. Set aside your opinions and come home to where you belong. He's waiting.
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world, seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
‘But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.‘ (John 12:32)
"When Peter saw that his master was about to be arrested, he drew his sword, but Jesus stopped him. This was the second time in the course of Jesus' career, that Peter had acted rashly against the spirit and intention of Jesus. Earlier he had remonstrated with Jesus who had announced that he would go to Jerusalem, and there be rejected and killed. Jesus had turned to Peter and rebuked him saying, "Get behind me, Satan." Jesus was intent on a mission in which he would be 'lifted up from the earth." Peter did not accept nor understand this."
"It would be well for us to remember that all the good that we have embraced in our lives, came to us via the sacrificial spirit. Our higher qualities were not pressed or flogged into us by force. We were drawn to them by the appeal of gentler things. The love of mother and father; the fellowship of fine people; the attraction of things good and right."
"The futility of force is seen in its capacity to scatter and sow evil, even in its effort to eliminate it. Those who go to war, often find themselves committing the same barbarities they are seeking to root out. Armies and navies can win battles, but they cannot win the peace. We problems of the human race will never be solved by violence. To expect otherwise is like expecting a cure for aids to arise from fornication."
"One day when Abraham Lincoln was with company in the White House, he made a hopeful and conciliatory remark about the South. A woman heard him, and was angry. "How can you speak like that about your enemies, when you should be seeking their destruction?" Lincoln replied: "What madam? And do I not destroy them when I make them my friends?"
"May the love that was willing to be... 'lifted up from the earth'---find its way into my life."
And indeed it is plain we are to keep that memorial untill He comes again...Just as the Jews were told of the Passover Exd 13:10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
Like the passover the Lords supper is a memorial to be kept for all time...
Jesus gave His covenant a meal of remembrance