Do This for the Remembrance of Me
Do this for the remembrance of me?
Do? Can’t we just be—Being one with you, O God in Christ?
Do this for the remembrance of me!
Do what?
This.
What is “this”?
Take: eat; take: drink.
Do this for the remembrance of me.
“So now I say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come
… I go to prepare a place for you’”
Do this for the remembrance of me.
“Lord, we do not know where you are going, how can we…?”
Do this for the remembrance of me.
Peace to this house. My own peace I now leave with you.
Lord, do not leave us!
My own peace I now leave with you.
Lord, we do not know where you are going.
My own peace I now leave with you.
Take: eat; take: drink.
Love one another as I have loved you.
Lord! We do not know where you are going.
I go to prepare a place for you so that where I AM, there, you may also be.
Take: eat; take: drink.
Love as I have loved.
Do this for the remembrance of me,
that you may also be.
It is finished.
Do this for the remembrance of me.
Peace.
Take: eat; take: drink.
Love as I have loved.
Lay down life for friends.
I call you friends.
Do this for the remembrance of me.
By this they will know you are my disciples, friends.
Peace to this house and all therein.
It is finished.
Let us begin.
Do this for the remembrance of me.
This is the bread that came down from heaven:
Peace—Take and eat. Take and drink. Love as I have loved:
Wash one another. Lay down your life for your friends.
Friends do this for the remembrance of me.
If I—your master and teacher—serve, then Remember; when I am gone.
Do not let your hearts be troubled.
I am the Good Shepherd. The shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
I will come again and I will take you to myself.
One Shepherd, One Flock.
Where I am, there you may be also.
It is finished.
Let us begin.
Do this for the remembrance of me.
For as often as you gather in my name, I Am in the midst of you.
May we be there, also.
©Thomas F. Reese March 18, 2007