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The hymn is sung during a service in preparation for the holy communion, and imagines a bride getting ready for her wedding. An unknown author kept the text of the first, middle and last stanzas (1, 4, and 9), and paraphrased the other stanzas to arias and recitatives: stanzas 2 and 7 to arias; stanzas 3, 5–6 and 8 to recitatives. He stayed ...
First Communion is an important tradition for Catholic families and individuals. For Latin Church Catholics, Holy Communion is usually the third of seven sacraments received; it occurs only after receiving Baptism, and once the person has reached the age of reason (usually, around the second grade). First confession (the first sacrament of ...
The Sursum Corda (Latin: "Lift up your hearts" or literally, "Up hearts!", that is, "Hearts up!") is the opening dialogue to the Preface of the anaphora, also known as the "Eucharistic Prayer", in the Christian liturgy, dating back at least to the 3rd century and the Anaphora of the Apostolic Tradition.
Eucharist (Koinē Greek: εὐχαριστία, romanized: eucharistía, lit. 'thanksgiving') [1] is the name that Catholic Christians give to the sacrament by which, according to their belief, the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine consecrated during the Catholic eucharistic liturgy, generally known as the Mass. [2]
At Holy Communion, the Collect of the Day is followed by a reading from the Epistles. [8] In more modern Anglican versions of the Communion service, such as Common Worship [ 9 ] used in the Church of England or the 1979 Book of Common Prayer [ 10 ] used in the Episcopal Church in the United States , the Collect of the Day follows the Gloria and ...
The 1983 Code prescribes the age of discretion also for the sacraments of Penance [13] and first Holy Communion. [ 14 ] Since the Second Vatican Council , the setting of a later age, e.g. mid-teens in the United States , early teens in Ireland and Britain , has been abandoned in some places in favour of restoring the traditional order of the ...
This later text, known in modified form as the Wesley Covenant Prayer, remained in use—linked with Holy Communion and observed on the first Sunday of the New Year—among British Methodists until 1936. [11] The origins of the covenant prayer have been the subject of some scholarly discussion.
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