It’s John Calvin’s 500th birthday this year, so I’m working through his theological treatises. Love coming across  stuff like this:

It would be well to require that the Communion of the Holy Supper of Jesus Christ be held every Sunday at least as a rule. When the Church assembles together for the great consolation which the faithful receive and the profit which proceeds from it, in every respect according to the promises which are there presented to our faith, then we are really made participants of the body and blood of Jesus, of his death, of his life, of his Spirit and all his benefits. … In fact, it was not instituted by Jesus for making a commemoration two or three times a year, but of the frequent exercise of our faith and charity, of which the congregation of Christians should make use as often as they be assembled, as we find written in Acts ch. 2, that the disciples of our Lord continued in the breaking of bread, which is the ordinance of the Supper. Such also was always the practice of the ancient Church, until the abomination of the mass was introduced, in which, in place of this communion of all the faithful, there was set up the horrible sacrilege that one man sacrifices for all.

Weekly communion was only set aside as the medieval church drifted into viewing it as a sacrifice. This theological superstition resulted in less frequent partaking, and Calvin was writing this to his fellow ministers in order to move away from quarterly observance.