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  1. Jul 19, 2023 · With absolute unanimity the liturgical tradition reproduced these seven actions as four: (1) The offertory; bread and wine are ‘taken’ and placed on the table together. (2) The prayer; the president gives thanks to God over bread and wine together. (3) The fraction; the bread is broken.

  2. Anglican churches so as to show that the people together celebrated the Eucharist under the leadership of the priest rather than him or her acting on their behalf. At the same time, the American book observes that ‘it is fitting that the principal celebrant :::be assisted by other priests’ and that ‘it is appropriate that the other

    • Entrance
    • The Liturgy of The Word
    • The Liturgy of The Sacrament
    • Exit

    Opening Acclamation

    The opening Acclamation states the entire journey’s destination: the Kingdom of the Triune God (Schmemann, For the Life of the World, 29).

    Processional

    The Processional, though not mandated in the BCP2019, begins the enactment of the journey: following Christ, represented by the processional cross, God’s people enter God’s presence. They are only able to approach the altar by virtue of the sufficient sacrifice of Christ himself. On their own, they are impure and unfit for worship (Rom. 3:23).

    Collect for Purity

    Through the Collect for Purity, then, the people ask for the Holy Spirit’s cleansing to enable proper worship.

    Praise, Prayer, Lessons, and Sermon

    After singing praises to a holy and merciful God (Ps 5:11), and being gathered together in prayer (Matt 18:20) by the Collect of the Day, the people are ready to hear the Word of God, first read aloud in the Lessons, and then proclaimed and exposited in the Sermon(1 Tim 4:13).

    Creed

    The Church then responds to God’s Word by confessing the Nicene Creed as a summary of its faith in both God and His Word.

    Prayers of the People

    If heard correctly, God’s Word should bring concern for God’s world, for which the community then intercedes in the Prayers of the People(1 Tim 2:1).

    Offertory

    The transition now complete, the Liturgy of Holy Communion begins with the Offertory, in which God’s people offer Him their very selves, symbolized by the bread, wine, and money as the fruits of human labor.

    Great Thanksgiving

    Then comes the Great Thanksgiving to God, in which, at the phrase “lift up your hearts” (sursum corda), the anaphora takes place as the Church itself is lifted up, as an offering, into the heavenly sanctuary (Chan, Liturgical Theology, 142).

    Sanctus and Benedictus qui venit

    Along with the angels in heaven, the Church praises God for His holiness in the Sanctus (“Holy”; Isa 6:3; Rev 4:8), and welcomes Christ’s presence in the Eucharist through the Benedictus qui venit (“Blessed is he who comes”; Ps 118:26; Matt 21:9; 23:39).

    Post-Communion Prayer, Benediction, and Dismissal

    In the Post-Communion Prayer, the people thank God for his provision and ask for His blessing as they are sent back out into the world – a blessing which they then receive in the celebrant’s benediction (Luke 24:50; John 14:12), before beingsent out into the worldto serve Christ (Matt 28:16-20).

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  3. Under various names – Holy Communion, the Lord’s Supper, the Eucharist – this central action of the Christian community is celebrated by Anglicans week by week and day by day. In the Eucharist we commemorate sacramentally the sacrificial death and victorious resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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  4. expressing christian understanding of the eucharist. (For example, various names have become customary as descriptions of the eucharist: lord's supper, liturgy, holy mysteries, synaxis, mass, holy communion. The eucharist has become the most universally accepted term.) An important stage in progress

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  5. Jan 5, 2019 · In this book, Book 4, there is an exploration of Anglican eucharistic theology as found in various catechisms, both t hose contained with official prayer books and those developed by...

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  7. Eucharist is for so many Christians: Orthodox, Anglican, and Protestant. The ecumenical importance of the Eucharist can be discerned in a very important convergence (not yet consensus!) document published by the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches almost 30 years ago: Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry (BEM,

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