But then, I saw somewhere that Eucharistic Prayer II was even further enchanted with elements from the Roman Canon, still shorter than the Roman Canon, but with elements from it and here it is for your praying pleasure and edification:
After the Preface dialogue and Preface:
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Hosts:
Heaven and earth are full of thy glory.
Hosanna in the highest. + Blessed is He who come in the Name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
The People kneel. The Priest, with hands extended says:
[Celebrant alone]
Therefore, Most Merciful Father, truly thou art Holy, O Lord, the fount of all holiness.
He joins his hands and, holding them extended over the offerings,
he says:
We pray you, O God, be pleased to make this offering wholly + blessed, to + consecrate and + approve it, making it reasonable and acceptable, by sending down your Holy Spirit upon them like the dew fall, so that it may become for us the + Body and + Blood of your most beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
He joins his hands and, making the sign of the cross over the bread
and the chalice, and in the formulas that follow, the words of the Lord should be pronounced clearly and distinctly, as the nature of the words requires, he says:
that they may become for us the Body + and + Blood of our Lord,
Jesus Christ.
Who, on the day before He suffered death, took bread into His holy and venerable hands, and lifting up His eyes to heave, to you, O God, His almighty Father, and giving thanks to you, He + blessed it, broke it, and gave it to His disciples saying: Take, all of you and eat of this:
He takes the bread and, holding it slightly raised above the altar,
Continues as He bows slightly.
FOR THIS IS MY BODY,
WHICH WILL BE GIVEN UP FOR YOU.
He genuflects, shows the consecrated Host to the People, places it
on the paten, and again genuflects in adoration. Then he continues:
Likewise, when He had eaten, taking also the blessed chalice into His holy and venerable hands, and again giving thanks to you, He + blessed it, and gave it to His disciples, saying: Take this, all of you, and drink of this:
He takes the chalice, and, raising it a little above the altar,
continues:
He bows slightly.
FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY BLOOD,
THE BLOOD OF THE NEW AND ETERNAL COVENANT, THE MYSTERY OF FAITH, WHICH WILL BE POURED OUT FOR YOU AND FOR MANY FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.
As often as you shall do these things, you shall do them in memory of me.
He genuflects, shows the Chalice to the People, places it on the
corporal, and again genuflects in adoration.
Then, with hands extended, the Priest says:
[Celebrant with concelebrants]
Therefore, as we celebrate the memorial of his Death and
Resurrection, we offer thee, Lord, the + Bread of life and the + Chalice
of salvation, giving thanks that thou hast accounted us worthy to be
in thy presence and minister unto thee.
Bowing Humbly, we implore You, Almighty God, bid these offerings be carried by the hands of your holy angel to your altar on high, before your divine majesty, so that those of us who, by partaking in this sacrifice at this altar shall receive the sacred + Body and + Blood of Your Son, may be filled with every grace and heavenly blessing standing upright and blessing himself by the Holy Spirit.
[Celebrant or one concelebrant]
Remember, Lord, thy Church, spread throughout the world, and
bring her to the fullness of charity, together with N. our Pope, N.,
our Bishop [or N., our Ordinary], and all the Clergy.
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[In Masses for the Dead:
Remember thy servant N., whom thou hast called (today) from this
world to thyself. Grant that he (she) who was united with thy Son in
a death like his, may also be one with him in his Resurrection.]
_________________
[Celebrant or one concelebrant]
Remember also our brethren who have fallen asleep in the hope of
the resurrection and all who have died in thy mercy: welcome them
into the light of thy countenance. As he strikes his breast Have mercy on us all, we pray thee, that with the blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with the
blessed Apostles, and all the Saints who have pleased thee
throughout the ages, we may merit to be co-heirs to eternal life,
and may laud and glorify thee
He joins his hands and continues:
through thy Son, Jesus Christ.
It is ever through Him that all good gifts, created by you, O Lord, are by You + sanctified, + endowed with life, + blessed and bestowed upon us.
Taking the Sacred Host, he makes the sign of the cross with the Host saying:
Through Him + with Him + and in Him + in unity with the Holy Spirit + all glory and honor is yours + Almighty Father, raising both the chalice and the Host forever and ever.
The People respond: Amen.
The People stand.
The Priest genuflects, rises, and continues with the Lord’s Prayer.
7 comments:
I was in the seminary from 1981 to 1985 and was never taught that we would make up our own Eucharistic prayers.
We all know how pre-Vatican II your seminary was and certainly by that time with the pre-Vatican II rigidity that Pope St. John Paul recovered. I was taught in my post-post-Vatican II seminary in the 70's and had it modeled at Masses, that we would make up our own but with the proper structure, epiclesis, words of institution, anemesis.
I didn’t see anything archaic in those passages.
"We all know how pre-Vatican II your seminary was and certainly by that time with the pre-Vatican II rigidity..."
You know nothing. I loved there and went to class there, you didn't. Mt. St. Mary's Seminary was as middle-of-the-road orthodox as it gets.
Mt. St. Mary’s staff and sems were and still are in denial about their pre-Vatican II ethos, rigidity and clericalism. When the pope condemns these things he has the Mount in mind.
I lived there and went to class there. You didn't. As is too often the case, you hold forth on things you know nothing about.
4 years was obviously not enough - you missed the class on charity and how not to vote for the Party of Moloch
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