The sacrament is the Lord’s ordinance for helping us remember our sacred covenants. It helps us focus on our covenant obligations to the Lord and reminds us regularly of how we can always have His Spirit to be with us. Elder Delbert L. Stapley has provided a summary of the key points made in the revealed sacrament prayers and the reverential manner in which the sacrament is to be administered and taken:
I should like to point out five important considerations to remember in the revealed sacramental prayers. First, we partake of the sacrament in remembrance of the broken body and spilled blood of Christ. Then we witness unto the Father, and I think we should take note of that, first, that we will take upon us the name of his Son… .If we take upon us the name of Christ, even as we pledge to do—when we partake of the emblems of his body and blood, we agree to keep all the commandments until the end of our days.
Second, we witness or pledge that we will always remember him. As President McKay said, “Always remember him in the home, in business, in society,” and I would assume wherever else we might be.
Third, we pledge to keep the commandments which he has given unto us, and last, we have a promise that if we do these things, and it is assumed that we do so worthily, that we shall always have his spirit to be with us… .
In partaking of the sacramental emblems, we should always call to mind Christ’s suffering and sacrifice, the death upon the cross, with faithful obedience to his appointed mission. The sacrament is so sacred that it is recommended during the sacramental services, that no music be played, nor should there be any distractions whatsoever during the service. It is a time for meditation, a time for resolve, not a time for visiting, nor the chewing of gum, as so many people do, nor permitting our minds to dwell upon other things foreign to the sacred ordinance of the sacrament itself.
We know that no one but a God could suffer or go through what Christ experienced to redeem men from the effects of the fall. His sacrifice was an infinite sacrifice and that sacrifice was required of a God to satisfy broken law… .
The Lord makes it very plain that if we keep the commandments that we shall not suffer as he suffered, because he assumed the burden of people’s sins, if they would repent, and also atoned for the fall of our first parents in Eden. When the Lord loves us enough to die for us, we should be willing to show our love for him by serving him and keeping all his commandments. (“The Sacrament,” BYU Speeches of the Year, 1956; quoted in Daniel H. Ludlow, A Companion to Your Study of the Book of Mormon [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976], 332–333)