Episode 181: What About the Sacrament?

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Religion & Spirituality, Feminism, Motherhood, Ldswomen, Spirituality, Lds, Thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints, Mormonwomen, Religion, Marriage, Mormon, Faith

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

As the centerpiece of Sunday worship and an ordinance pointing directly to Jesus Christ, the sacrament holds deep meaning for many Latter-day Saints. In Episode 181, Cynthia and Susan turn their grace-peddling to a conversation about the sacrament. What matters more: worthiness, or willingness? When did this simple remembrance of Jesus become about “renewing our baptismal covenant,” and what does that mean? How might the evolution of personal faith impact the way one thinks about and engages with this ordinance? Can a ritual that is so familiar take on new significance as we change and grow?

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0:00.0	I just want to say Susan that I have a lot of this is not a revelation to anyone I have a lot of things in church that are painful for me.
0:11.3	I have not one single word of these sacrament prayers.
0:15.1	They're glorious. I think so too.
0:17.8	Single word of it is glorious. Williness, remember to keep those first two great commandments to witness unto
0:24.4	thee, like just this is the gospel. Totally agree. I was just gonna say when I
0:30.0	finished reading it I was like that just gets all of it there it all of it all right there yeah
0:36.0	never underestimate our ability to complicate things as human beings even if they're
0:41.0	handed to us in a relatively, you know, flawless state.
0:46.4	If we could just stick with what was in those prayers,
0:48.5	that would be great.
0:49.8	Imagine that.
0:50.8	Hello, I am. that.
0:56.0	Hello, I am Cynthia Wynward. And I'm Susan Hinkley.
0:58.0	And this is at last she said it.
1:00.0	We are Women of Faith discussing complicated things. The title of today's episode is, what about the
1:06.6	sacrament?
1:07.6	We've been wanting to have this episode for, gosh, at least all of last season.
1:14.0	For reels.
1:15.0	Yeah.
1:16.0	This is a conversation we wanted to have for quite a while for a variety of reasons and so that's kind of why we put that nice general title on there. What about the sacrament?
1:25.0	Because we've just had some things that we wanted to talk about relating to the sacrament.
1:29.0	Well, and I think a lot of those thoughts that we want to share today stemmed from like you said
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