...quite removed from the yearly meal of remembrance the Jews were ordered to observe.
...quite removed from the yearly meal of remembrance the Jews were ordered to observe.
I don't know that it was meant to be yearly... The blessing on the bread and the wine was said at important gatherings - Certainly all the Holy Days, and perhaps more... 'This do, in remembrance of me' was speaking of those two blessings - whenever they are said... those blessings are a remembrance of Him, as He revealed... But the important part isn't the blessing. The important part is the gathering - What He is saying in fact, is that all of those days that the bread is broken and passed around, and where the wine is poured and passed around, all of those gatherings are a remembrance of Him. The blessings are said over the gathering.
Jewish Messianics have a leg up on the rest of us in that - They retain their Jewish Traditions, and having been saved, can see where Yeshua applies to those things they have kept for so long. They all point to Him.