Memorial 2010

[James]

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Hope to hear that you will honor Jehovah and Jesus by attending...I know we are all looking for his reign to begin.

agape,
James

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Hope to hear that you will honor Jehovah and Jesus by attending...I know we are all looking for his reign to begin.

agape,
James


Absolutely James. My focus is on what Jehovah and Jesus have done and will do for humankind. Nothing else. Jehovah will work out all other details.

E & E

[JB]

This will be the first one I attend....can someone fill me in on what to expect......or I guess what I will see and how it is set up

Thank you

[Cephalon]

Question for Robert.

Do you still have the picture video of Jesus, the one you had on E-W? If so, can you post it or give me a link to it?
I really love that video

Thanks

[FutureMan]

This will be the first one I attend....can someone fill me in on what to expect......or I guess what I will see and how it is set up

Thank you

Hello JB, I'll try and relate to you as I can remember ok.

Now I'm not sure but when the memorial celebration starts, you most likely will find all the brothers, who are passing around the bread and the wine to the congregation all seating up at the front and and these ones are comprised of ministerial servants and elders.

Now even though I've been to over 40 memorial celebrations and because of my bad memory, I can not remember exactly the format of the celebration, but initially a local elder will open the memorial with welcoming everyone there and then he gives a talk for about 20 minutes on Jesus life and death and the meaning of the New Covenant that Jesus had made with his apostles, after that comes the time to pass around the bread and the wine.

The bread is passed around on small plates and the wine is passed around in wine drinking glasses.

But before this happens prayer is said and then the bread is first passed around from person to person and then from row to row.

With the JW beliefs only those who profess to be anointed with the Holy Spirit generally actually partake of the bread.

Next prayer is said again and the wine is now passed around as was the bread passed around and again only generally those who profess to be of the anointed partake.

In most congregations there are no anointed ones, but around the world there is now approximately 10,000 who have being observed to partake of the bread and the wine.

This has caused a bit of a controversy as it was generally expected that the number should decrease over the years and not increase as it has been doing.

Anyway after the wine is passed around their is more comment on what took place by the elder presiding over the memorial celebration and then the celebration is finished.

Now I think that there is also a song sung about the Lord's Evening meal, but I'm not sure whether it is at the beginning or the end, I just cannot remember anymore.

From memory, I think that the whole celebration goes for about 45 minutes.

I hope this helps anyway.

[SlaveForJah]

Question for Robert.

Do you still have the picture video of Jesus, the one you had on E-W? If so, can you post it or give me a link to it?
I really love that video

Thanks

Hey there, Cephalon,

I was planning to link to that video two days ago, and just didn't have the time to do so that day. You can find the Pictorial Memorial here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm2gn0h-U0o) or here (http://e-watchman.tv/video.html) (it is video #5 on the list).

I hope this helps. And thank you Robert for this well done video. I too have enjoyed it very much.


Agape

SlaveForJah

[SWORDOFJAH]

*** w03 2/15 p. 22 What Does the Lord’s Evening Meal Mean to You? ***

The Memorial Season—A Blessed Time

21 Many are the blessings of the Memorial season. We can benefit from the Bible reading scheduled for this period. It is also an especially fine time for prayer, for meditation on Jesus’ earthly life and death, and for participation in the Kingdom-preaching work. (Psalm 77:12; Philippians 4:6,*7) The observance itself reminds us of the love shown by God and Christ in connection with Jesus’ ransom sacrifice. (Matthew 20:28; John 3:16) This provision gives us hope and comfort and should bolster our determination to pursue a Christlike course. (Exodus 34:6; Hebrews 12:3) The Memorial should also strengthen us to fulfill our dedication as God’s servants and to be loyal followers of his dear Son.

[SWORDOFJAH]

This will be the first one I attend....can someone fill me in on what to expect......or I guess what I will see and how it is set up

Thank you

How is the meeting conducted? At the Memorial gathering a brother who serves as the chairman gives a brief welcome and opens the meeting with a song and a prayer. This is followed by the Memorial talk, given by a capable speaker (one of the anointed where available) selected by the appointed overseers. It would not be well for several brothers each to present a portion of the Memorial talk as in a symposium. It is recommended that the speaker should offer the two brief prayers over the emblems. (Matt. 26:26, 27) Following the serving of the emblems and additional comments by the speaker, concluding comments may be given by the presiding overseer unless he is the one handling the Memorial program. The meeting concludes with a closing song and a prayer.

Only those of the anointed remnant partake of the emblems that are passed around to the audience. Following a brief prayer, the bread is passed first. Next, after another prayer, the wine is served. The bread and the wine are not served together. Those who partake ‘worthily’ should partake of both emblems.—1*Cor. 11:27,*28.

[FutureMan]

How is the meeting conducted? At the Memorial gathering a brother who serves as the chairman gives a brief welcome and opens the meeting with a song and a prayer. This is followed by the Memorial talk, given by a capable speaker (one of the anointed where available) selected by the appointed overseers. It would not be well for several brothers each to present a portion of the Memorial talk as in a symposium. It is recommended that the speaker should offer the two brief prayers over the emblems. (Matt. 26:26, 27) Following the serving of the emblems and additional comments by the speaker, concluding comments may be given by the presiding overseer unless he is the one handling the Memorial program. The meeting concludes with a closing song and a prayer.

Only those of the anointed remnant partake of the emblems that are passed around to the audience. Following a brief prayer, the bread is passed first. Next, after another prayer, the wine is served. The bread and the wine are not served together. Those who partake ‘worthily’ should partake of both emblems.—1*Cor. 11:27,*28.

Thanks for clarifying that SWORDOFJAH, about how the memorial celebration is conducted.

I will be celebrating the Memorial at home this year, with my family, as I did last year.

We baked our own unleavened bread and I got a good quality bottle of a dry red wine.

First of all I prayed for God's spirit to be on my family and our little meeting and then I gave about a a half hour talk on the meaning of the emblems and it's pertaining to the New Covenant and then the emblems were passed around each time after prayer.

I was a bit nervous even with my family as I have never given a memorial talk before, but I think that I did okay in presenting the information.

This was new territory for us as a family, and the first time that we did not go to our regular congregation to celebrate the memorial.

This time this year, hopefully I will be much more confident in giving the talk.

[Cephalon]

Hey there, Cephalon,

I was planning to link to that video two days ago, and just didn't have the time to do so that day. You can find the Pictorial Memorial here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm2gn0h-U0o) or here (http://e-watchman.tv/video.html) (it is video #5 on the list).

I hope this helps. And thank you Robert for this well done video. I too have enjoyed it very much.


Agape

SlaveForJah

Hi SlaveForJah,

Thank you very, very much my brother. You cannot even begin to imagine how much I was thinking about this video. It's so movable.

Thanks again SFJ for the link and Robert for the video.

Cephalon

[Oakscove]

Thank you all for the information.... i couldn't have said it better. on that note i was wondering if there are any brothers that have a memorial talk they could pass on to a brother who is at work and can't go to the kingdom hall....... of course i will be reflecting tonight and offering my own prayers to jehovah, but it would be nice to have some material to go by. anyway...... i hope to hear from someone. as am unbaptized wittness it is very important to me that i be faithfull on this very special day.


take care
Oakscove