The Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Rite

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Liturgical Press, 1986 - Reference - 376 pages

This book is a historical-theological commentary on the approved, postconciliar, Eucharistic prayers of the Roman Rite. The author, Father Enrico Mazza, traces each prayer to its root time and gives the reader the cultural-theological climate of those times before analyzing the theological principles as translated in the prayers today.

 

Contents

CHAPTER
1
CHAPTER
36
CHAPTER THREE
49
CHAPTER FOUR
88
Departures from Hippolytus
91
Analysis of the Text
100
CHAPTER FIVE The Third Eucharistic Prayer
123
The Author of the Text
125
Anamnetic Narrative of the History of Salvation
164
Epiclesis
170
Account of Institution
173
Anamnesis
177
The Paschal Mystery
178
Epiclesis for Unity
180
Intercessions
186
Doxology
189

First Epiclesis
128
Anamnesis
131
The Sacrifice
134
Sources of the Text
137
Epiclesis
140
Intercessions
142
Appendix to Chapter Five
149
CHAPTER SIX The Fourth Eucharistic Prayer
154
Structure of the Anaphora
158
Holy Father
160
Celebration of God
161
Sanctus
162
CHAPTER SEVEN The Anaphoras of Reconciliation and the Anaphora for the Swiss Synod
191
The Anaphora for the Swiss Synod
213
CHAPTER EIGHT The Eucharistic Prayers for Masses with Children
225
Introduction
235
The Problem
236
A New Direction
237
CHAPTER NINE
250
Abbreviations
281
Select Bibliography
355
Index
361
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Page xii - Finally, there must be no innovations unless the good of the Church genuinely and certainly requires them; and care must be taken that any new forms adopted should in some way grow organically from forms already existing.

About the author (1986)

Enrico Mazza is professor of liturgical history at the Universite Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. He is the author of Mystagogy: A Theology of Liturgy in the Patristic Ages and Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Rite.

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