Eddie – It looks like you don't come from the more liturgical end of the Church. We Lutherans most commonly refer to this sacrament as Holy Communion, even though we don't consider ourselves especially smart or important. Lutherans, Anglicans, and Roman Catholics share an understanding that Christ is really, bodily present (not symbolic) in the bread and the wine (we use wine) and celebrating communion in worship is core to Christian community. Anglican writer NT Wright (highly recommend – he speaks to us all across the spectrum) describes the action of Christ in communion as reaching back across the thin membrane between Heaven (where God is present) and earth (where it's more ambiguous) to be really present with us. Why would anyone not want to experience that as often as possible? In our tradition, we are moving from monthly + feast days (a compromise with the 19th Century idea that communion should be rare) to a return to celebration at every service. Of course the practice in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches for their entire histories. Some of my Catholic friends celebrate it daily. Meant to be something we all experience together, Eucharist is often where we are most broken as the church – some Lutherans won't commune with my brand (ELCA), as we don't (normally) intercommune with Roman Catholics (although any communing Christian can commune in an ELCA congregation). To me, the family should eat together and argue politics later.

Thanks Eddie for your comment at http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/as-it-was-in-the-… and your invitation to comment here. Others have already made the point, I think, that the Eucharist (Lord's Supper, Breaking of the bread, etc) was central in the New Testament – it is what we are commanded to do by Jesus. His meals were central to enacting his Kingdom message and it was inevitable that a meal enshrined his ongoing message and life. It is a command that has not been broken across 100,000 Sundays of our history. So I'm not sure where you get the idea that “most churches stop[ped celebrating] the Eucharist from being every week?” Most churches celebrate the Eucharist every Sunday at least. For Martin Luther, certainly, the Eucharist was central. So it was not essential to the Reformation to take the focus off the Eucharist. The Reformation in England resulted not in lessening the focus on the Eucharist – it continued to be celebrated at least every Lord's Day – in fact there came to be a stronger stress on receiving communion than the Medieval inherited tradition had had it. It is wonderful to see people like you, picking up the Biblical texts and looking at them afresh and seeing that there we find encouragement to celebrate the Lord's own service on the Lord's own day.

Eddie,
Good comments. We, at the church of Christ, observe the “Lord's supper” every Sunday and it is the center piece of the worship service. Jesus commanded this “sharing of his body and blood” prior to His ultimate sacrifice. The examples of the first century church leads us to observe this at least weekly. However, as 1 Corinthians 11:27-29 states, we must be of the proper mind at the time of taking communion. It should not be just tradition, ritual, or common place. We need to remember what He intended it to mean….the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord, and the way to our salvation in our death (to sin), burial (in baptism of His blood), and the resurrection (into a new birth or life). This “communion” should be the center piece of our everyday living, without this there is no purpose for us.