The words at the administration of Communion which, in the prayer book of 1549 described the Eucharistic species as ' The body of our Lorde Jesus Christe ...', ' The blood of our Lorde Jesus Christe ...' were replaced with the words ' Take, eat, in remembrance that Christ died for thee ..' etc.

As in England, while many prayers were retained the structure of the Communion service was altered: a Prayer of Oblation was added to the Eucharistic prayer after the ' words of institution ', thus reflecting the rejection of Cranmer's theology in liturgical developments across the Anglican Communion.

Within the latter, the actual Eucharistic prayer is called the anaphora, literally: " offering " or " carrying up " ().

Others add a praying of a pious Eucharistic prayer " O Sacrament Most Holy, O Sacrament Divine, All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine " at the end of each decade in honor of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

The Eucharistic Prayer includes the epiclesis, a prayer that the gifts offered may by the power of the Holy Spirit become the body and blood of Christ.

A Roman Catholic or Anglican of the Anglo-Catholic party would find its elements familiar, in particular the use of the sign of the cross, kneeling for prayer and the Eucharistic Prayer, bowing to the processional crucifix, kissing the altar, incense ( among some ), chanting, and vestments.

In Letter 97 to Trajan, Pliny the Younger perhaps indicates, in about 112, that such a meal was normally taken separately from the Eucharistic celebration ( although he is silent about its nomenclature ): he speaks of the Christians separating after having offered prayer, on the morning of a fixed day, to Christ as to a god, and reassembling later for a common meal.

The Roman Rite liturgy expresses the doctrine of divinization or theosis in the prayer said by the deacon or priest when preparing the Eucharistic chalice: " By the mystery of this water and wine may we come to share in the divinity of Christ who humbled himself to share in our humanity.

A further Eucharistic prayer is provided in the Marriage liturgy.

To gain a plenary indulgence, a person must exclude all attachment to sin of any kind, even venial sin, must perform the work or say the prayer for which the indulgence is granted, and must also fulfil the three conditions of sacramental confession, Eucharistic communion and praying for the intentions of the Pope.

In this case the Church itself makes up for the three conditions normally required for a plenary indulgence: sacramental confession, Eucharistic communion and prayer for the Pope's intentions.

These people worked hard for the church to be built and so that they could finally have their own chapel where they could participate in the Eucharistic Liturgy and gather together in prayer.

150: " We call this food Eucharist ; and no one else is permitted to partake of it, except one who believes our teaching to be true .... For not as common bread nor common drink do we receive these ; but since Jesus Christ our Savior was made incarnate by the word of God and had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so too, as we have been taught, the food which has been made into the Eucharist by the Eucharistic prayer set down by Him, and by the change of which our blood and flesh is nourished, is both the flesh and the blood of that incarnated Jesus " ( Jurgens § 128 ).

There was no fixed anaphora or Eucharistic prayer in the Mozarabic rite of Mass, which permitted a fair degree of extemporaneous flexibility.

In Western Christianity, the Sanctus is sung ( or said ) as the final words of the Preface of the Eucharistic Prayer, the prayer of consecration of the bread and wine.

Basing himself on Daube ’ s theory Arvid Nybroten suggested that once the Paschal Eucharist came to be celebrated apart from an actual meal, the first blessing, breaking and eating of bread at the beginning of the meal and the breaking and eating of the afikoman at the end of the meal would have combined and would have been blessed together with the cup during the formal thanksgiving at the end of the meal, the Jewish prayer which eventually evolved into the Christian Eucharistic prayer.

The twelfth reading leads into the Song of the Three Children and is not followed by a prayer with kneeling, but is immediately followed by the prokeimenon of the Eucharistic liturgy.

The bishop is chosen by the whole congregation: " one of the bishops and presbyters " is to lay hands upon him and say a prayer which follows ( 3 ): he is at once to proceed with " the offering ," taking up the Eucharistic service at the point where the sursum corda comes in.

Father Robert Taft states definitely that there is not a single extant pre-Nicene ( 325 AD ) Eucharistic prayer that one can prove contained the Words of Institution.

They are considered by many Eucharistic scholars to be the closest forms of prayer to the Jewish prayers over the meals.

Many Christian rites also have the priest wash his hands before beginning the Eucharistic prayer.

After a period of depression, prayer and reflection, Leo re-formed the order as the Priests of the Sacred Heart ( Dehonians ) on 25 February 1888 with a goal of parish and foreign missionary work, with special devotion of its members to Eucharistic adoration.

" The attempt by some twentieth-century Catholic theologians to present the Eucharistic change as an alteration of significance ( transignification rather than transubstantiation ) was rejected by Pope Paul VI in his 1965 encyclical letter Mysterium fidei In his 1968 Credo of the People of God, he reiterated that any theological explanation of the doctrine must hold to the twofold claim that, after the consecration, 1 ) Christ's body and blood are really present ; and 2 ) bread and wine are really absent ; and this presence and absence is real and not merely something in the mind of the believer.

* To the single Canon of the previous edition ( which, with minor alterations, was preserved as the " First Eucharistic Prayer or Roman Canon ") he added three alternative Eucharistic Prayers, increasing also the number of prefaces.

In the eleventh century, Berengar of Tours denied that any material change in the elements was needed to explain the Eucharistic Presence, thereby provoking a considerable stir.

Although it was only in the West that Aristotelian philosophy prevailed, the objective reality of the Eucharistic change is also believed in by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the other ancient Churches of the East ( see metousiosis ).

In the ninth century Paschasius Radbertus claimed that Christ's Eucharistic body was identical with his body in heaven, but he won practically no support.

Considerably greater stir was provoked by Berengar, who denied that any material change in the elements was needed to explain the Eucharistic Presence.

The various Eucharistic liturgies used by national churches of the Anglican Communion have continuously evolved from the 1549 and 1552 editions of the Book of Common Prayer which both owed their form and contents chiefly to the work of Thomas Cranmer, who had rejected the medieval theology of the Mass in about 1547 Although the 1549 rite retained the traditional sequence of the mass, its underlying theology was Protestant.

Another reason for calling the election early was the pending Eucharistic Congress to be held in June.

* To the single Canon of the previous edition ( which, with minor alterations, was preserved as the " First Eucharistic Prayer or Roman Canon ") were added three alternative Eucharistic Prayers, and the number of prefaces was increased.

As noted above, three new alternative Eucharistic Prayers were introduced alongside the Roman Canon, which formerly was the only one used.

After several writers had expressed dissatisfaction with the Roman Canon, the Benedictine scholar Cipriano Vagaggini, while noting what he called its undeniable defects, concluded that its suppression was unthinkable ; he proposed that it be retained but that two further Eucharistic Prayers be added.

It is often said to be the place where the Aristotelian distinction between substance and accident was first applied to explain Eucharistic change.

His Eucharistic treatise, De corpora et sanguine Domini ( On the Body and Blood of the Lord ), was a counterpoint to his abbot Paschasius Radbertus ’ realist Eucharistic theology.

The Epiclesis is considered to be essential to the validity of the Sacred Mystery ( sacrament ), and in the 20th century, when Western Rite Orthodox parishes began to be established, it was necessary to add an Epiclesis to their Eucharistic rites, if one was not already there ( for instance, those parishes which desired to use the Anglican Missal.

Most scholars date it to the early 2nd century, and distinguish in it two separate Eucharistic traditions, the earlier tradition in chapter 10 and the later one preceding it in chapter 9.

The ordination of a deacon occurs after the Anaphora ( Eucharistic Prayer ) since his role is not in performing the Holy Mystery but consists only in serving ; the ceremony is much the same as at the ordination of a priest, but the deacon-elect is presented to the people and escorted to the holy doors by two sub-deacons ( his peers, analogous to the two deacons who so present a priest-elect ) is escorted three times around the Holy Table by a deacon, and he kneels on only one knee during the Prayer of Cheirotonia.

In his letter to bishops which accompanied his 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict XVI wrote that " the Missal published by Paul VI and then republished in two subsequent editions by John Paul II, obviously is and continues to be the normal Form – the Forma ordinaria – of the Eucharistic Liturgy.

The Ambrosian Missal also restored two early-medieval Ambrosian Eucharistic Prayers, remarkable for placing the epiclesis after the Words of Institution, in line with Oriental use.

In addition, the Ambrosian Rite has two proper Eucharistic Prayers, used mainly on Easter and Holy Thursday.

This is an English translation of the two hundred proper prefaces at present used with the Eucharistic prayers of the Ambrosian Rite.

Historically in Lutheranism there have been two parties regarding Eucharistic adoration: Gnesio-Lutherans, who followed Martin Luther's view in favor of adoration and Philippists who followed Philipp Melanchthon's view against it.

The term pyx is also a standard term used in the Catholic Church to refer to a flat, circular container, sometimes called a lunette, composed of a ring of metal ( usually lined with gold ) holding two glass or crystal disks, to create a round, flat, glass-enclosed space for the Eucharistic Host.

In this renovation were significant additions, including a Eucharistic chapel, two side chapels, and a large crucifix below the domed crossing.

The First class relics of at least two saints, at least one of which had to be a martyr, were inserted in a cavity in the altar which was then sealed, a practice that was meant to recall the use of martyrs ' tombs as places of Eucharistic celebration during the persecutions of the Church in the first through fourth centuries.

The Eucharistic meditations of the two Saints Pierre Julien Eymard and Jean Vianney ( both promoters of the Eucharist ) were published as books.

* two Eucharistic Prayers for Masses of Reconciliation were approved provisionally ( ad experimentum ) in 1975 ;

Recently two typical additional ancient Eucharistic Prayers have been restored, to be used mainly on Easter and Holy Thursday.

The Eucharistic Prayer normally used in the Byzantine Rite is attributed to Saint John Chrysostom, who died in 404, exactly two centuries before Pope Gregory the Great.