Let him offer himself in prayer upon his knees before God, in token or remembrance of the everlasting covenant . . . And he that cometh in and is faithful before me, and is a brother, or if they be brethren, they shall salute the president or teacher with uplifted hands to heaven, with this same prayer and covenant, or by saying Amen, in token of the same. (D&C 88:131, 135)
While reading D&C 88 today, it struck me that these verses use “remembrance,” not merely in the sense of physiological remembrance, but in the same sense of the Greek term used for the Eucharist in 1 Cor 11 and Luke 22, αναμνησις, which carries with itself the sense of a “placard” (cf. Gal 3:1; cf. Fritz Chenderlin, “Do This as My Memorial”: The Semantic and Conceptual Background and Value of ‘Αναμνησις in 1 Corinthians 11:24-25 [Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1982])
See this article for a fuller discussion of “remembrance” and its relationship to the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper.
