Eucharistic Prayer (Canon)

Reed, The Lutheran Liturgy:

Petri’s Canon, p. 114

Appendix of Eucharistic Prayers, pp. 633ff

Full discussion of the Canon, pp. 317ff (NB: Reed’s proposed canon has the epiclesis after the consecration; Brunner admits this is possible but problematic in that it can deny the consecratory function of the Verba; see Brunner, p. 298ff)

Brunner, Worship in the Name of Jesus, pp. 290ff

  • Luther went so far as to remove the Verba even from the preface and pax domini in the German Mass.

  • Yet even in the German Mass Luther prefaces the Verba with human words that put the words of Christ into a subordinate clause!

  • Even in the German Mass the Verba are surrounded by anamnesis, Eucharistic praying, prayers for reception, and hymnody (294).

  • Great discussion on 1 Tim. 4:3-5: the word of God and prayer consecrate profane food for use in the new creation of the baptized. NB: prayer and Word together, indeed Word in the prayer. The testimony of the early church is that the consecration was a free prayer with Verba (Justin, e.g.). Cp. the meals prayers of Luther’s SC

  • 1 Cor. 10 supports this as does 1 Cor. 14:16ff (see note 351) where the Greek implies that this situation was about the Holy Communion.

Weedon in Through the Church the Song Goes On

Stuckwisch’s little book on Eucharistic Sacrifice and

“Justification and Eucharistia,” Gottesdienst (2013:4): 8-12.