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
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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
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