Prayer over the gifts:
The priest raises the bread slightly and says this bread will become for us the bread of life.
When we turn to John 6: Jesus shows how the bread of life the Israelites were given each day in the desert that sustained their life, but they still died. Now Jesus is telling us how that bread was prefigurement of his the bread to come in the new covenant and this new bread we will eat and have everlasting life.
John 6: 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven: who ever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.
John 6: 56. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. So also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died whoever eats this bread will live forever.
IN John 6:66 is the only time we know Jesus lost followers.
John 666 says As a result of this many of his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him. Why because this saying is hard who can accept it.
Who can accept that they had to eat flesh and drink his blood?
Eucharistic Prayer:
In this prayer we see Revelation come alive for us. The first half of Revelation is how John is caught up in heaven or he is seeing a vision of heaven.
Preface: Is where we are giving thanks to God for his mercy.
Acclamation: We are acclaiming and praising God just as the saints and angels are doing in Heaven.
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your Glory. In Rev: 4: 8 The four living creatures, each of them with six wings. Were covered with eyes inside and out, Day and night they do not stop exclaiming: Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come. When ever the living creatures gives glory and honor and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever.
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