Quotes about Commemoration

In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.

On the eighth day you are to hold a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.

to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar

On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten.

There should be a stated day for commemorating the birthday of our Savior, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

There is power in remembrance, recalling, and memorial celebration.

On the fifteenth day of this month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.

Take this, all of you, and drink from it: this is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant. It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven. Do this in memory of me.

But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge.

wish to love Jesus as a glorified friend, in the free spirit of friendship—not pay him a stiff sign of respect, as people do before someone they fear. How do I think we should commemorate Jesus' life? By reading his words, imitating his kindness and generosity, and doing anything that awakens our minds and opens our hearts to virtue and love.

O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again...