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The Eucharistic Prayer While the word of God feeds us and is vitally important, calls it “the heart and summit of the celebration.” At any given Mass, you may hear different things said during the Eucharistic Prayer. That’s because there are four main Eucharistic Prayers in the Roman Missal. Eucharistic Prayer I is called the Roman weekday Masses. Eucharistic Prayer III is an abbreviated form of the Roman Canon, and Eucharistic Prayer IV is much longer and was modeled after some Eastern Church liturgies. All the Eucharistic Prayers are similar in structure and include thanksgiving and acclamation, a prayer for the sending of the Holy Spirit, the institution narrative, remembrance, offering, intercessions In the Eucharistic Prayer, we become participants in the oncefor Apostles to do: change bread into His Sacred Body and wine into His Precious Blood. For further study: CCC 1352-1355 48 the center of the Mass is the Eucharistic Prayer. In fact, the Catechism of the Catholic Church in paragraph 1352 Canon and includes prayers to many of the saints and martyrs. Eucharistic Prayer II is the shortest and is most often used at and a final doxology. all sacrifice of Christ, as the priest does what Jesus told His Notes


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