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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]
Communion service in the Three-kings Church, Frankfurt am Main. Many Reformed Christians hold that Jesus' body and blood are not corporeally (physically) present in the Eucharist, but instead present in a spiritual way. [90] The elements are considered to be spiritual nourishment in Jesus by faith. According to John Calvin,
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 precedes readings from the Bible.
Low Mass (Latin Missa Privata) [1] is a Catholic Mass celebrated by a priest without the assistance of sacred ministers (deacon and subdeacon). Before 1969 reforms, a sub-distinction was also made between the sung Mass (Missa in cantu), [2] when the celebrant still chants those parts which the rubrics require to be chanted, and the low Mass (Missa lecta) where the liturgy is spoken.
The early 20th-century Catholic Encyclopedia said, on the contrary, that a Missa cantata "is really a low Mass, since the essence of high Mass is not the music but the deacon and subdeacon. Only in churches which have no ordained person except one priest, and in which high Mass is thus impossible, is it allowed to celebrate the Mass (on Sundays ...
A "Full Service" includes all three of these groups. But with the demise of daily "Matins" (choral morning prayer) from the Anglican liturgy and the reduction of the choral element in communion services composers are now more likely only to set the evening service. The "Burial Service" (see Requiem) is sometimes set separately.
Prayers taken from the A Form of Spiritual Communion of the Diocese of Malaita of the Anglican Communion are as follows: [13] In union, O Dear Lord, with the faithful at every Altar of Thy Church, where Thy blessed Body and Blood are being offered to the Father, I desire to offer Thee praise and thanksgiving.
No prayers are said at the consumption of the Precious Blood, the first prayer after the "Corpus et Sanguis" being the Communion. [3] In a solemn Mass the chalice is brought in procession to the altar during the Gloria, and the corporal is unfolded by the deacon during the singing of the Epistle. The chalice is prepared just after the subdeacon ...