I'm on the fence about this.
I guess we're all on the fence about something.
Jesus speaks symbolically sometimes, but most times He meant everything literally (actions anyway).
I know that Jesus is present, I'm sure about that.
The Real Presence.
When ever 2 or more are present there am I also....
The "ritual" act that Christ put into place was a symbolic representation to be performed once a year on Passover to remind all the faithful who would gather for the event that their savior performed the final sacrifice that would for be for "the remission of sins that are past" as they strove to become like him.
Of course man has reimagined this act to be done every week on a day they call the Sabbath and most don't even realize that the Passover sacrifice did not fall on a weekly Sabbath even before the Sabbath change by man from Saturday to sunday.
Lev 23:1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. 3 Six days shall work be done:
but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.
4 These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 5 In the
fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's Passover.
The fourteenth day of the first month at evening is when Christ was hung on a tree and died.
Matt 26:17 Now
before the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the Passover? 18 And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples. 19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover. 20 Now when the even (-Abib 14-) was come, he sat down with the twelve.
1 Cor 11:23 I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 25 In the same way
He took the cup also after supper, saying, “
This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink
it, in remembrance of Me.”
The Passover meal that Christ sat at with the disciples would have happened just after the 13th (which as we know the evening begins the next day) on Abib 14 since he was the sacrificial lamb that would be slain on Abib 14 at evening which in this case was during the week. Thus all disciples would celebrate "it" the new covenant on the same day of the year as the Passover fell on.