Pope Pius XII, in his landmark 1947 encyclical promoting the liturgical movement, “Mediator Dei,” had affirmed that the faithful offer the Eucharist along with the priest, although allowing ...

Eucharistic Prayer I, the Roman Canon, is markedly different in order and content, expressing immediately after the Sanctus words of offering and petition for the church in its leaders and ...

Further, Eucharistic Prayer 4 petitions God "to make of us an eternal offering to you … that we might live no longer for ourselves … but for him … to complete his work on earth." This prayer ...

This is followed by uniting with Christ in his sacrificial offering to the Father. In Eucharistic Prayer 4, we pray, "We offer you his body and blood, the acceptable sacrifice which brings ...

At the general audience, Francis appeals again for Syria: "We must pray for these brothers and sisters" who are suffering for the war "and for the Christians who are persecuted, they want to drive ...

Still further, during the institution narrative of the Eucharistic Prayer, we can see the Lord Jesus nailed and dying on the Cross. We can spiritually witness his blood, sweat, groans, and tears ...

It is both a meal and an offering. In it, we encounter the risen Christ as our sacrifice and our food. In recent decades, the emphasis has often been on the common meal. What the eucharist offers in ...

Cardinal Robert Sarah has made additional comments about the so-called ad orientem (or eastward) direction for the Eucharistic Prayer, wherein priest and people all face one direction for the ...

There, too, prayers for the deceased also have their pinnacle.” “In offering Mass for them,” he said, “believers support their final purification. Receiving communion in faith, they ...