{"id":10050,"date":"2024-01-11T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=10050"},"modified":"2024-01-11T11:00:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T16:00:37","slug":"the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-23\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Depths of the Mass #23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Eucharistic Prayer &#8211; Preface<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">The Eucharistic Prayer starts with a preface.&nbsp; The preface begins with the priest saying, \u201cThe Lord be with you\u201d and the people responding, \u201cand with your Spirit.\u201d&nbsp; The preface ends with the \u201cHoly, Holy, Holy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">The GIRM (<em>General Instruction of the Roman Missal)<\/em> divides the Eucharistic Prayers into eight parts.&nbsp; The first part is \u201cthanksgiving.\u201d&nbsp; Our thanksgiving is explicit when the priest says, \u201cLet us give thanks to the Lord our God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">There are 10 Eucharistic Prayers.&nbsp; There are over 50 separate prefaces.&nbsp; The preface changes with the seasons or for special feasts.&nbsp; Like other parts of the Mass, some of the words of the prefaces come from the Bible, most evident is Isaiah 6:3 in the \u201cHoly, Holy, Holy.\u201d&nbsp; Also evident is \u201cblessed is he who comes\u2026\u201d from Psalm 118:26 along with Matthew 21:9; 23:39, Mark 11:9, Luke 13:35; 19:38, and John 12:13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eucharistic Prayer &#8211; Preface The Eucharistic Prayer starts with a preface.&nbsp; The preface begins with the priest saying, \u201cThe Lord be with you\u201d and the people responding, \u201cand with your Spirit.\u201d&nbsp; The preface ends with the \u201cHoly, Holy, Holy.\u201d The GIRM (General Instruction of the Roman Missal) divides the Eucharistic Prayers into eight parts.&nbsp; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-23\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Hidden Depths of the Mass #23&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[733],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMTPk-2C6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10051,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050\/revisions\/10051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}