Martin Luther's gospel

Wiker and Hahn move on to the German baptised after Saint Martin, who consecrated himself to the Church in the name of Saint Anne mother of Mary. If those two authors have it right, The Pagan Servitude of the Church rereads the Gospels and Paul on the Eucharist.

In earliest (known) Christianity, Jesus held a last meal with his disciples involving bread and wine. The Gospels have it as a Passover Seder. Paul in 1 Cor 10-11 discusses a communal meal of rememberance, the most important Christian ritual, in which one joins in the body of the Church by consuming Jesus' body present in the Host. The Eucharist precedes this Scripture; this Scripture assumes it, to legislate conduct concerning it. See here.

For Martin, Jesus is not present in the Mass but presides over it. The key is the Testament, God's promise to us. Martin prefers this Latin over the more ambiguous Greek Diatheke behind it. The words of Christ... are the true eating and drinking. So we may as well not have a Eucharist at all.

In terms Martin, the vulgarian, can appreciate: this is retarded. In the Gospel According To Martin, when you relate the words, you commemorate the Last Supper. The Evangelists were telling us the exact opposite - Christ himself called us to the Supper that we may commemorate our Lord (and His words).