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The Anaphora Prayers of St. Basil - Part Three

Priest: 

Ascending into heaven, He sat down at the right hand of Your majesty on high, and He will come to render to each man according to his works.

As memorials of His saving Passion, He has left us these things which we have set forth according to His command.

For when He was about to go forth to His voluntary, ever-memorable and life-creating death, on the night in which He gave Himself up for the life of the world, He took bread into His holy and pure hands. And when He had shown it to You, the God and Father, after giving thanks, having blessed it, and sanctified it, and broken it, He gave it to His holy disciples and apostles, saying:

Take! Eat! This is My Body which is broken for you, for the remission of sins.

People: Amen.

Priest:

And likewise, when He had taken the cup of the fruit of the vine and had mixed it, and having given thanks, blessed it and sanctified it, He gave it to His holy disciples and apostles, saying:

Drink of it, all of you! This is My Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for you and for many, for the remission of sins!

People: Amen.

Priest:

Do this in remembrance of Me! For as often as you eat this Bread and drink this Cup, you proclaim My Death, you confess My resurrection! Therefore, we also, O Master, remember His saving Passion and life-giving Cross, His three-day Burial and Resurrection from the dead, His Ascension into heaven and Enthronement at the right hand of You, the God and Father, and His glorious and awesome Second Coming,

Your own of Your own, we offer to You, on behalf of all and for all.

People: We praise You. We bless You. We give thanks to You, O Lord; and we pray unto You, O our God.

Priest:

Therefore, most holy Master, we also, Your sinful and unworthy servant, whom You have permitted to serve at Your Holy Altar, not because of our own righteousness (for we have done nothing good upon the earth), but because of Your mercy and compassion (which You have so richly poured out on us), now dare to approach Your Holy Altar, and to offer You these figures of the holy Body and Blood of Your Christ. We implore You and call upon You, O Holy of Holies, that by the favor of Your goodness, Your Holy Spirit may come upon us and upon the gifts now offered, to bless, to sanctify, and to show this bread to be the precious Body of our Lord and God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

People: Amen.

Priest:

and this cup to be the precious Blood of our Lord and God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

People: Amen.

Priest:

shed for the life of the world.

People: Amen. Amen. Amen.

Priest:

And unite all of us to one another who become partakers of the one Bread and Cup in the communion of the Holy Spirit. Grant that none of us may partake of the holy Body and Blood of Your Christ unto judgment or condemnation. 

Instead, may we find mercy and grace with all the saints who through the ages have been well-pleasing to You: ancestors, fathers, patriarchs, prophets, apostles, preachers, evangelists, martyrs, confessors, teachers, and every righteous spirit made perfect in faith, especially with our most holy, pure, most blessed and glorious Lady, the Theotokos and ever-virgin Mary.