If the Lord had not requested that we remember Him in death according to His own prescribed manner, Christians might still have wished to commemorate His death in some fashion. But if left to ourselves to devise a way to do it, there would probably be as many ways or variations as there are Christians who have that desire. As it is, even with the Lord’s implicitly clear instructions, there are many innovations which add to or take away from its beautiful and meaningful simplicity a loaf of bread and a glass of wine, the fruit of the vine.
P. Wilson