Sacrament Meeting

[shyguy]

How long has fast and testimony meetings been in the church?

[applepansy]

Since the beginning.

Addition:

A Sacrament meeting was held on the day the Church was organized, April 6, 1830.

Sacrament Meeting - The Encyclopedia of Mormonism

Edited October 10, 2012 by applepansy

[MarginOfError]

How long has fast and testimony meetings been in the church?

"Since 1896 these meetings have usually been held on Sunday"

Fast and Testimony Meeting - The Encyclopedia of Mormonism

Not a well documented source, but the meeting as we know it may have been introduce around the turn of the century. (barring a better source from someone else)

[RMGuy]

MoE is pretty much spot on from my understanding. Sacrament meeting as it currently exists is early 20th century. Prior to that, meetings of the church looked a bit different. Some early journals are indicative. As Apple indicated however, sacrament (Lord's supper) and fasting have been in evidence from the earliest days of the restoration, though not necessarily in the same manner we observe them today.

-RM

[HiJolly]

In the early years here in the Salt Lake Valley, Sacrament used to be done in the 'bowery' and then the Tabernacle, not in the church services in the Ward buildings. I think that changed in the 1900 - 1910's, roughly.

HiJolly

[Leah]

I am wondering if the OP is referring specifically to the fast and testimony meetings held on the first Sunday of the month, as that is how he worded it, rather than just using the words 'sacrament meeting'.

Perhaps he is wondering how long that particular practice has been in existence?

[mnn727]

Fast and Tesitmony meetings have been around since the beginning, they used to be held on Tuesday evening I believe in the early SLC years

[shyguy]

Yes Leah you are correct. Where the location and the date that fast and testimony started in the church not the sacrament itself.Does anyone know where I can find it?

[RMGuy]

Try the memory hole?

-RM

[shyguy]

Thank you, for all your replies. I know it was a hard one. Just one of those thoughts that goes through your mind. Not intellectual but spiritual. Hard for me to put in words. Maybe the spirit will penetrate your heart.In the next life we will find out.

[mrmarklin]

My father who was born in 1907 and remembered in his lifetime that sacrament meeting was done on Thursday nights.

[shyguy]

Thank you.

Shyguy