I wonder if Paul was using manipulation and mind control?
St. Paul and his companions attended the temple on the Sabbath, but “the breaking of bread” occurred in the house “churches” of Christians. “The breaking of bread,” is a Eucharistic phrase in St. Luke’s writings. For example, when St. Paul was in Troas in Acts 20:7, we read: “On the first day of the week, when we gathered together to break bread…”
Luke 24:30-31 records Cleopas and an unnamed disciple’s “eyes were opened” and they recognized Jesus “in the breaking of the bread.” And according to
Luke 24:1, 13, this encounter was also on the first day of the week! St. Paul never says, “On the Sabbath, when we gathered to break bread.” Instead, the “breaking of bread” in
Luke 24 and in Acts 20
occurs on the first day of the week; Sunday!!
For, in the first place, when you assemble as a church… it is not the Lord’s Supper that you eat. For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal, and one is hungry and another is drunk. What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God…For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it. (I Cor. 11:18-23)
Soooooo those “homes” were actually house “churches” in which “the breaking of bread” happened,
and it happened on the first day of the week: Sunday.
You should practice what Paul is trying to manipulate you into doing...