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	Epiclesis -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Eastern Orthodox theologians hold that the epiclesis is essential to the Eucharist -- without it, the miraculous change will not occur.
		Epiclesis is a work by (additional info and facts about Juan Maria Solare) Juan Maria Solare for flute (Cologne, 25-30 September 1995) [4'30"].
		First performed by Thomas Brögger at the Musikhochschule in (A commercial center and river port in western Germany on the Rhine River; flourished during the 15th century as a member of the Hanseatic League) Cologne on 26 January 1996.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ep/epiclesis.htm (182 words)

	Epiclesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, the epiclesis (also sometimes spelled epiklesis, since it is a transliterated Greek word) is that part of the prayer of consecration of the Eucharistic elements (bread and wine) by which the priest invokes the Holy Spirit.
		It should be noted that in its pure form the Divine Liturgy of Addai and Mari includes an epiclesis, but does not use the Words of Institution.
		In the several alternative Eucharistic Prayers of the Novus Ordo, the revised Liturgy of Pope Paul VI, the Quam Oblationem has been replaced by a prayer that is closer to an Epiclesis such as is found in the Eastern liturgies.
	en.wikipedia.org /?title=Epiclesis (588 words)

	EWTN - Document Library - www.ewtn.com
		'Epiclesis' in the context of the Liturgy of the Eucharist
		This phase is the very heart of the Eucharistic Prayer in which the presence of the Spirit, Creator and Sanctifier, reveals the full impact of his consecratory and sanctifying power, together with the Word of Christ for whom the Spirit, invoked by the Word and with the Word, brings about the transformation of the gifts.
		Furthermore, it also appears as the special place to which the Blessed Virgin Mary is entitled by her Divine Motherhood, brought about by the same Spirit and made present in the Eucharistic consecration in communion with the act of consecration by the ordained priest.
	www.ewtn.com /library/Doctrine/euchar11.htm (1539 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nevertheless, it is in this first Epiclesis, it seems, that the petition for the acceptance of the sacrifice came to be specified as a petition for the transformation of the oblations.
		The first Epiclesis of the Egyptian Liturgy was also, as we have seen, formed from two distinct prayers, the first, like the Hanc igitur, developing in an enumeration of the more special intentions for which the sacrifice was being offered.
		The result is that the Epiclesis, which at first was merely a development of the anamnesis, became detached from it, and acquired an importance and an independence which puts it on full par with the evocation of the Father as creator and the Son as redeemer.
	www.reu.org /public/theological/eucspr1.txt (18162 words)

	epiclasis and epicerastic and emollient and demulcent and emollescence
		The epiclesis is a prayer summoning God to be present in the bread and wine.
		Following directly on the heels of the epiclesis are the words of Christ to his disciples at the Last Supper (the dominical words) urging them to "Take, eat; this is my body which is broken for you," and, after supper, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood.
		Comfort is the bridge between theology and medicine today, because an epicerastic is defined by the OED as "tempering the acrimony of the humors; emollient." The Greek verb "epikerannumai" is, literally, to "mix in addition," and the first usage of the word is in Homer, where it is applied to the process of mixing wine.
	www.willamette.edu /~blong/MoreWords/Epiclesis.html (902 words)

	Notes on the relation between the grace of God and the free will of man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The epiclesis is a prayer of the Church recited by the celebrant, a bishop or priest.
		Thus, the admixture of water to the wine during the offertory of the Mass constitutes a rite whose specificity is perfectly identical to that of the rite of the breaking of the bread.
		Now, the epiclesis is a prayer, that is, a properly spiritual action through which man addresses himself to God and freely speaks to him in a familiar manner, as one speaks to a friend.
	meynen.homily-service.net /engl/grace.htm (8618 words)

	Classical Net Review - MacMillan - Concertos
		Epiclesis was written in 1993 and revised five years later.
		The first two-thirds of Epiclesis are largely free and improvisational in effect.
		At length, the soloist and the orchestra meet on the same spiritual plane, a process aided by the quotation of the plainsong Adoro te devote.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/b/bis01069a.html (603 words)

	Catholic Answers Forums - Point of transubstantiation in Orthodox mass?
		I believe that the eastern belief is that the change of the bread and wine to christ's body and blood occurs at the epiclesis, while the western belief is that it occurs with the words..."this is my body....this is my blood..." Eastern Catholics and Orthodox also do not use the term "transubstantiation".
		The epiclesis is the point during the consecration when the priest extends his hands over the bread and wine.
		An epiclesis is an invocation of the Holy Spirit.
	forum.catholic.com /showthread.php?t=50218 (2760 words)

	Facing up to Women in Holy Orders
		During the divine liturgy, it is not so much the ‘words of consecration’; but the epiclesis that brings about the transformation of the bread and the wine.
		Epiclesis, in one form or other, occurs in all the sacraments, for the sacraments come about through the action of the Spirit.
		The epiclesis of ordination also specifies the ministry for which the Spirit is imparted: as in the case of the woman deacon who receives the Spirit in view of the diaconate.
	www.womenpriests.org /deacons/hobart.asp (3808 words)

	Deconstructing George Murphy's use of "verba" and "epiclesis" - TheologyWeb Campus
		It is not a Eucharist in any sense in which the church has ever used the term liturgically, having neither verba, epiclesis, nor even mention of Christ.
		As is obvious in this case, the verba and epiclesis had absolutely nothing to do with the "real problem" of the Apostate Eucharist, even within George's own line of reasoning.
		Since you have shown a lot of interest in the understanding of the uncleanness of menstrual blood under ceremonial law and how this applies in the NT and to the Christian, it would really help me a lot to know where you are coming from in general on such questions.
	www.theologyweb.com /campus/showthread.php?t=40958 (5806 words)

	MacMillan Epiclesis, Ninian [DW]: Classical Reviews- June 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Epiclesis - concerto for trumpet and orchestra (1993 revised 1998);
		The Trumpet Concerto is subtitled Epiclesis, a Greek word for invocatory prayer but seldom is the attitude of prayer depicted in the music.
		The music is technically demanding and, at times, savage which, again, does not lend itself to the concept of prayer.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2001/June01/MacmillanEpiclesis.htm (597 words)

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		It seems that he was not sufficiently familiar with the Eastern liturgies to have such a synthesis in mind, and therefore that it was merely the result of his instinctive good taste.
		Crammer's Epiclesis, with its mention of the word and the Spirit is retained as it was, except that the word is mention first, as in 1637, although this Epiclesis is transferred to after the Anamnesis.
		The great prayer for the State of the Church is returned to the Canon, but it is now placed after what corresponded there to the second Epiclesis, developing the idea of the sacrifice of praise and the offering of ourselves to God, which is also preserved (except for two adverbs) as it was in 1637.
	www.reu.org /public/theological/eucspr4.txt (7114 words)

	Please title this page. (Page 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		These Usages were the following: the mixed cup, the epiclesis, a prayer of oblation, and prayers for the dead.
		The word "epiclesis" is Greek for "invocation" in the sense of calling upon or naming a person.
		In time, epiclesis came to refer to a liturgical petition to the Father to send the Holy Spirit, especially during the Eucharist.
	www.ocbooks.co.nz /morenews2000/48/usages.html (289 words)

	Learning Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Epiclesis is a concerto for trumpet and large orchestra in one movement lasting about 20 minutes.
		The word Epiclesis means an invocation calling upon God’s name during any blessing or consecration.
		It is mostly used with specific reference to the invocation during the Eucharistic Celebration in which the gifts of bread and wine are consecrated into the Body and Blood of Christ.
	www.boosey.com /pages/learning/catalogue/cat_detail.asp?musicid=960 (413 words)

	d18 Glossary
		The epiclesis (invocation of the spirit) in a ritual symbol functions to enable the "other", the transcendent, to enable anamnesis.
		(epiclesis; usually a petition asking God to send the Holy Spirit to do something) The object of the blessing is both God and the creature; for example, the BRK for the water of baptism is both "blessing the water" and "blessing God over (or for) the water.
		At the eucharist the epiclesis is (a) to unify the assembly and (b) to consecrate the eucharistic elements.
	www.tomrichstatter.org /d%20Documents/d18gloss.htm (8041 words)

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		Because the Roman Catholic theology is that transubstantiation occurs at the institution, not at the epiclesis.
		The epiclesis is required for the Eastern Orthodox, "highly desirable" for Anglicans (though no Eucharistic Prayer doesn't have it).
		Technically, for Roman Catholics, all you have to say are the words of institution.
	www.christianguitar.org /forums/showpost.php?p=399217&postcount=7 (49 words)

	[No title]
		Technically > it is termed an implicit ascending epiclesis, as opposed to the explicit > descending epiclesis common to Eastern Liturgies.
		This double epiclesis, > one before the Institution and another after, is unique to Alexandrian > Anaphora and the Roman Canon.
		What follows is the response from that priest: > "I have read the comments on that special rite which does have > the Epiclesis and not the words of the institution.
	alumni.cs.ucsb.edu /~evodius/liturgy/chal.txt (1623 words)

	EUCHARISTIC PRAYER OF ST. ATHANASIUS-THE HEART AND SOUL OF THE DIVINE LITURGY
		Functionally, also, the epiclesis is not seen by the Lutherans to be both consecratory and sanctificatory like in the Orthodox Rite.
		While, in the ecclesial gathering, it is man (albeit as the Body of Christ) who offers a "sacrifice", he is motivated and empowered by faith to offer up a new type of "sacrifice", one of thanksgiving and praise for the now and the not yet.
		It is the Reformed tradition, whose understanding of the Lord's Supper is Zwinglian, with whom the Roman Catholics, the Orthodox and the Lutherans all disagree.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Thebes/1089/euchpray.html (3044 words)

	sacra doctrina
		Thus, for instance, while the Scottish service book did not include an epiclesis invoking the Holy Spirit as part of the eucharistic liturgy, the use of such an epiclesis apparently was nonetheless widespread in the Scottish Kirk.
		In fact, the absence of the epiclesis was a point of difference between the Scottish Kirk and the Church of England.
		On the Continent, in France and Switzerland, the practice had been for the congregation to come forward and gather, standing, around the communion Table for the distribution and, where the congregation was large, to do so in shifts, a group at a time.
	sacradoctrina.blogspot.com /2004/07/worship-posture-and-practices-in.html (1752 words)

	THE GREAT SACRILEGE (tgs17.htm)
		In the Epiclesis of the True Mass (again, I remind you, this is the prayer which beings, "Qui Pridie"), the obvious emphasis is on the fact that the priest intends to do what Christ did at the Last Supper, namely, consecrate the offerings, change them into the Body and Blood of the Savior.
		In the "Epiclesis" of the "New Mass" the emphasis has been obviously and unmistakably shifted, even though the words used are generally the same.
		The reason for the bold and enlarged capitals is the Missale Romanum of St. Pius V is the need to separate them from the Epiclesis and the Anamnesis, and to indicate that they are the Form of Consecration.
	www.dailycatholic.org /issue/2002Jan/tgs17.htm (1325 words)

	Eucharistic Liturgy II
		If the institutional narrative is seen as one of the many actions of God for which we give thanks and praise, then the memorial prayer following it can be seen as a continuation of this remembrance of God's action in history by recalling the death, resurrection and ascension of Christ.
		The prayers that follow this remembrance of praise should ask that God continue to be faithful to His people and that they have the grace to be faithful to their covenant with Him.
		Here the epiclesis (or invocation of the Holy Spirit) is directed not at the gifts of bread and wine, but at the community itself, which will receive the body and blood of Christ.
	www.georgetown.edu /centers/woodstock/reese/america/l-euch2.htm (1041 words)

	4 - Worship
		The Invocation, or Epiclesis, had appeared in a very mild form in the 1637 Scottish Prayer Book, supposedly based on the English 1549 book, though there have always been those who argued that the Epiclesis was very ancient in Scotland and derived from a presumed Eastern Orthodox influence on Celtic Christianity.
		But belief in eastern antiquity ceased to dominate liturgical scholarship, and the Epiclesis was preserved as a relic of penal days in the north rather than a theological proposition.
		Yet all this argument about the Epiclesis was rather unreal; most of the students of the college would never use the Scottish Liturgy anyway, but only the English Communion Office.
	www.episcopalhistory.org.uk /04worship.html (3058 words)

	THE GREAT SACRILEGE (tgs16.htm)
		Rather, we shall concentrate on that part of the four prayers which is common to all, but which has been made different from the True Canon, the prayer which begins "Qui pridie," with the Consecration Forms which follow.
		We will base our investigation mainly on (1) the Epiclesis itself, together with the three phrases: (2) "mysterium fidei," (3) "Haec Quotiescumque," (4) "pro multis." Below, we will give these phrases in their proper context.
		We must have this understanding if we are to perceive how, with a few cunning strokes, the manipulators have been able to set at naught the sacramental import of the words and to disrupt the careful balance of ideas, guarded so jealously by all former Catholic generations, but relinquished so unconcernedly by this present one.
	www.dailycatholic.org /issue/2002Jan/tgs16.htm (990 words)

	Prostration of the Priest - Byzantine Forum
		In the Melkite tradition there is no "prostration" (in the Latin sense of lying flat on the floor) but there is a deep metany (kneeling and bowing down so that the forehead touches the floor) after the epiclesis.
		The Ordo Celebrationis for the Ruthenian Recension does not indicate any prostration by the priest in the Divine Liturgy, though there are several prostrations indicated for the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts.
		So, Deacons are addressed: Father Deacon X. In the Greek liturgy, the priest goes down on both knees and bows low at the end of the epiclesis, obviously in veneration of the presence of the Holy Spirit Who has just been called down, and in the Mystery that is completed.
	www.byzcath.org /bboard/Forum2/HTML/000806.html (772 words)

	Year of: Installment One
		The term epiclesis comes from the Greek kleo, which means "to call" and epi, which means "forth".
		The epiclesis in the eucharisic prayer is the "why" of our eucharistic praying.
		There is another epiclesis in the eucharistic prayer which invokes the power of the Holy Spirit for the unity of the church:
	sta.org /Insert-Mar.htm (1363 words)

	To Discover the Eucharist as the Source and Summit of My Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		There is an Epiclesis of Divine Word when we read the Scriptures to conform our lives to Jesus.
		There is an Epiclesis of Intercession, an Epiclesis of Offering and an Epiclesis of Consecration in the transformation of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ.
		There is an Epiclesis of Memorial, an Epiclesis of Communion and an Epiclesis of Mission — "Ite missa est," as the baptized are sent out by the Holy Spirit to transform society.
	www.catholic-doc.org /bishop/juneintention.html (817 words)

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