Eucharistic Prayer III
Returning to God (Suitable for Lent and Passiontide)
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give him thanks and praise.
Worship and praise belong to you,
maker of light and darkness.
Your wisdom draws beauty from chaos,
brings a harvest out of sorrow
and leads the exiles home.
In Christ your Son enemies are reconciled Opening Prayer:
debts forgiven celebrating the work
and strangers made welcome. of God, Father, Son
and Holy Spirit,
in creating, restoring,
and bringing to
completion all that is
His.
Your Spirit frees us
to live as sons and daughters
in our Father's house.
Who by Christ's power
follow the way of the Cross,
sharing his obedience ,
now offer you our praise,
with angels and archangels
and the whole company of heaven
singing the hymn of your unending glory:
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord, SANCTUS:
God of power and might. an anthem to
Heaven and earth are full of your glory. God's glory.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. BENEDICTUS:
Hosanna in the highest. The greeting to him
who came in the flesh,
comes in the sacrament,
and is still to come
Glory and thanksgiving be to you, CHRISTOLOGICAL
most loving Father, PRAYER:
for Christ in whom the world is reconciled, Thanksgiving to God for
Lifted on the Cross, all that was
his suffering and forgiveness accomplished in the life,
spanned the gulf our sins had made. death and resurrection of
Through that dark struggle Jesus.
death was swallowed up in victory,
that life and light might reign.
Before he was given up to suffering and death,
recalling the night of Israel's realise,
the night in which the sons of Egypt died,
your Chosen One, himself the First-Born,
freely offered his life.
At supper with his disciples
he took bread and offered you thanks.
He broke bread, NARRATIVE OF THE
and gave it to them saying: INSTITUTION
"Take, eat. An account of the Last
This is my Body: it is broken for you." Supper.
After supper, he took the cup,
he offered you thanks,
and gave it to them saying:
"Drink this, all of you.
This is my Blood of the new covenant;
it is poured out for you, and for all,
that sins may be forgiven.
Do this in remembrance of me."
We now obey your Son's command. ANAMNESIS AND
We recall his blessed passion and death, OBLATION:
His glorious resurrection and ascension; The work of Christ is
and we look for the coming of his Kingdom. recalled and linked with
Made one with him, we offer you these gifts our offering.
and with them ourselves,
a single, holy, living sacrifice.
and send your Holy Spirit upon us We ask for the descent
and upon this bread and this wine, of the Holy Spirit as the
that, overshadowed by his life-giving power, Divine response to our
they may be the Body and Blood of your Son, obedience.
and we may be kindled with the fire of your love
and renewed for the service of your Kingdom.
Help us, who are baptised into the fellowship of PRAYER OF
Christ's Body PETITION:
to live and work to your praise and glory; As members of the
may we grow together in unity and love Church we pray for her
until at last, in your new creation, whole life and mission.
we enter into our heritage
in the company of the Virgin Mary,
the apostles, and prophets,
and of all our brothers and sisters
living and departed.
with whom, and in whom, A concluding act of
in the unity of the Holy Spirit, praise.
all honour and glory be to you,
Lord of all ages,
world without end.
Amen.
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