The Restoration of the Sacrament

New Testament

Book of Mormon

Doctrine and Covenants

Our day

When Jesus Christ comes again

Who

Jesus Christ and His disciples in Jerusalem

Jesus Christ and the Nephites

Joseph Smith and the first members of the restored Church of Jesus Christ

Latter-day Saints around the world

Jesus Christ and “all those whom [His] Father hath given [Him] out of the world” (Doctrine and Covenants 27:14)

What

Bread and wine in remembrance of Jesus’s body and blood (see Matthew 26:26–28; Mark 14:22–24; Luke 22:17–20)

Bread and wine in remembrance of Jesus’s body and blood (see 3 Nephi 18)

Bread and wine, blessed with specific prayers found in Doctrine and Covenants 20:77, 79

Usually bread and water, blessed with specific prayers found in Doctrine and Covenants 20:77, 79

A gathering led by Jesus Christ, where He “will drink of the fruit of the vine with [us] on the earth” (Doctrine and Covenants 27:5)

When

Began around AD 33, the night before the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ

Began around AD 33, after the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Began when the Church was organized on April 6, 1830

Every week in sacrament meetings

When Jesus Christ comes to the earth again

Where

In “a large upper room” of a house in Jerusalem (Mark 14:15)

In “the land Bountiful” (3 Nephi 11:1)

In the Whitmer home in Fayette, New York, USA

In meetinghouses around the world

“On the earth” (Doctrine and Covenants 27:5)

Why

To give people the opportunity to remember Jesus Christ and to “renew their covenant to take upon themselves the Savior’s name, to always remember Him, and to keep His commandments.”