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Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts |
The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, informally Presanctified Liturgy, is an Eastern It consists of vespers combined with additional prayers and communion. The The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts was first documented by Gregory Dialogos, who This Liturgy is also mentioned in the Canons of the seventh century Quinisext Although the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is associated primarily with the Thus, for instance, there is a similar penitential rite used by the Roman Catholic From Wikipedia
Christian liturgical service for the distribution of communion on the weekdays of Great
Lent. Great Lent is a season of repentance, fasting, and intensified prayer, and so
the Eastern Church regards more frequent reception of communion as especially
desirable at that time. However, the Divine Liturgy has a festal character not in
keeping with the season. The Presanctified Liturgy is therefore celebrated instead.
Although it is possible to celebrate this service on any weekday of Great Lent,
common parish practice is to celebrate it only on Wednesdays and Fridays.
communion bread is consecrated and reserved at the previous Sunday’s Divine
Liturgy. It may or may not be intincted with consecrated wine depending on local
practice, but in any event unconsecrated wine is placed in the chalice. Local practice
also varies as to whether or not this wine must be thought of as the Blood of Christ
even if the bread was intincted. The only practical effect of this variety is that the
celebrant who must consume all the undistributed communion at the end of the
service might or might not partake of the chalice when he communes himself.
was the papal legate to Constantinople. At one time it was supposed that he had
come up with the idea himself, but now it is generally supposed that he simply
recorded what was otherwise being practiced at Constantinople. In the Presanctified
Liturgy itself, he is still commemorated as its traditional author.
Council:
“On all days of the holy fast of Lent, except on the Sabbath,
the Lord’s Day,and the holy day of the Annunciation, the
Liturgy of the Presanctified is to be served (Canon 52,692).”
Orthodox Churches and the Byzantine Rite Catholics, the concept has spread to other
Churches.
Church on Good Friday, officially called the rite of Comemoration of the Lord’s
Passion, but informally known, especially among Catholics who celebrate the Liturgy
in accordance with the Tridentine discipline, as Mass of the Pre-Sanctified. It should
be noted, however, that, because there is not consecration of the gifts in that Liturgy,
it is not technically a Mass.