The consecration of the eucharist : a study of the prayer of consecration in the communion office from the point of view of the alterations and amendments established therein by the revisers of 1789

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THE PATRISTIC WITNESS ltho Great Churoh o Constantinoplo, o Fria Francis, made abolit the ea l240. t probabi marks the rst conflictis the unchanged traditionis tho East illi thonove teachin that but recenti devised, a fluunted intho face of the Greeks by their eStern conquerorS. Fortho ourth rusade had osen diverte lesrom it purpOSe, and Constantinoplo ad been lunderet in 1204, an a Latin Empire et UP. Again consterning the divine and myStica symboles, that is, of the divino Bod o the Lord, ou say that theworiis of the Lord, Tali eat, and rink, by thomsolves change and perieci the elementes, and that the divino prayer and hol invocations o the aint have nothingio do illi it But, say that hos Same divine ordSo the Lordinave a referende to consecration, although thepowerii the priosthood is through the divine prayers and invoeationsiecit os aint Chrysostoni o the reat asit. For the divine graee o tho priesthood was iven to the

Apostles by Christisn his account, an Mirom them in SuccesSion, and ur PrieSt thave received to consecrate the

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In Chap. XXIX. ho discussos the obieetions that ereboing ad in his timo by the Roman Scholasti theo

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no received consecration, and thereiore the pra torthem, a Stili nee ling rnyer. . . . Thi Sume Prnyer

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ultimat et prevallei in the estern Chureli, easting utili original tradition holit ironi thologinning in the ost

no conform to the vie o consecration that then pre-

vallo in the est. Although tho Armenian iturgyliad eun known to tho Roman Chureli sine the tentii releventi e entvry, no attemptina lieon ad to altor it in the matter o consecration hi therio io the ver Simplereason that Seholasti theolog had ni recenti de-velope the notion that the recitationis ou Lord 's,oriis was the essentiai and effective mean o conSecration. Intrue Roma iashion a ne notion, ne fairly tarte Mon

See AppendiX, p. 305. Ibid. p. 306.

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come unde cenSure in ther reSpectS in the question i

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hein in doub abolit tho Invocationis the Spirit and the

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98 THE CONSECRATION O THE EUCHARISTto divine tradition no belli satisfied illi ho Lord 'sworiis lone. et these innovate in ali hings. But we, holdincias tho traditions hieli, have received a the Saviour through Himseli and through His Apostlos and the ather delivered, tetrus consperate the mySteries of thedrea communion by the Invocation o the Divine Spirit, through the Lord ' ulteranees, and the PrieSil prayerS, also at the divine aut o consecration, i prayer Ofth prius in the divine Invoeation, and by the signi thecross, et u belleve that the consecration is oeeived inaceord illi ho divino tradition. V It is abundanti evident to any open-minded reade thatth Gr00ks had maintainsed a very clear notioni the relationis the Narrative o Institution, and of the Invocationo themoly Spirit respeetively, to the consecration o the Eucharist. The wor isti Christ deel arator os th giit Hegaverat the origina Institution, and His command o do a II had done, ere regarde a a living ord i Ower, analogou to God 's creative Ord. his ori is redited historie ali in the naphora, and is rought o preSent sulfilmen by tho instrumentulit of the prayer of thepries and the operation os the oly Spirit in answerthereio. When, thereiore, e meet illi the assertionthat at tho oundit o Florene in 1439 the Greeks accede Mentiret to tho modern Roman te o Eueharistic

conSecration, e stremo incline to bellove uel a state-ment, and we turn to the record o that assen lyrio eo what reatly ook laee. Foris hole ear an more tho Greek an Latins ore assembled a Floronee beiore the Latins aised the questionis the torm V o consecration

IV. p. 135 228); reti Dissertation appende to his Collectiono the Principat Liturgies, p. 236-247 London, 1838).

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THE PATRISTIC ITNES 99o tho Eucharist. The o June S, 1439, the ovo os hodeath of the Gree patriarch, the Latins egan to findiauit illi ho Invocation, and with iis ording, in the

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demnation. V

It is manifes that tho Greoli prolatos ho made his an-swe had in minii the argument hereb Cabasilas, abolita centur beiore had turnod the tablos against the Latins out of the pravo Supplices te of tho Canon Missae. The Greulis rogardod the wordes o Christ,ith ali duo reverenue.