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The Liturgy of the Eucharist:

The Offertory:
(this begins the Liturgy of the Eucharist) Collection of the gifts: What are these gifts, which we collect? (You might say money) The answer is yes, but that is only a small part of what we should be giving. When you read Justin martyr’s letter, we can see right from the start that there was a collection in the church for the widows and the poor. So yes, when we give financial assets but what we are really giving is our commitment, the same as it was when the Israelites had to give their first born, unblemished animals for their many sacrifices (they were giving their best and most valuable assets to God (so maybe we need to think twice before we pull out our change or a few dollars less than we will spend in just having a meal later that day. But what’s the other half of the gifts: The gift of ourselves to God. We should be offering our daily efforts, trials, prayers, and sufferings, menial tasks and more to God so he can take them and return them to us as a blessing. This is the rest of the story in the offertory, the commitment to God, the commitment not only of our first-born fruits of money but also our fruits of our daily life, for his glory.

Presentation of the gifts:
After we collect these gifts with the basket and our hearts we present them to Christ through the priest. On Sundays you see the process to the altar with the basket and the bread and the wine. Preparation of the bread and wine:

The bread and wine is symbolic of all creation. Again we see the prefigurement or the typology of how Gods chosen people Israel celebrated the two feasts.

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