The Eucharistic Prayer
Anaphora Graeca
The Worthy Thanksgiving§1
1It is worthy and just that our God be thanked without ceasing for all your benefits which you have bestowed upon us. First, that you sent to us from heaven your holy child, the co-throne of your kingdom, your companion son, the God Word, who, coming upon the last of the days, having taken our humanity, the Word became flesh without remaining a mere change. Through the Holy Spirit, he possessed flesh and a human soul, having all the things of man without sin. He did not dwell as if in some man, but he himself, entirely the God Word, having been perfectly eaten, did not alter humanity; not two existing, but one King, one Christ, one.
Greek · §1
Anaphora Graeca «Ἄξιον καὶ δίκαιόν ἐστιν ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, εὐχαριστεῖν σοι ἀδιαλείπτως ὑπὲρ πασῶν τῶν εὐεργεσιῶν σου ὧν ἐδωρήσω ἡμῖν, πρῶτον μὲν ὅτι ἀπέστειλας ἡμῖν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ τὸν ἅγιον παῖδά σου, τὸν σύνθρονον τῆς βασιλείας σου, τὸν συναΐδιόν σου υἱόν, τὸν Θεὸν λόγον, ὃς 299 ἐλθὼν ἐπ' ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν, λαβὼν τὴν ἡμετέραν ἀνθρωπότητα ὁ λόγος σὰρξ γενόμενος μὴ ὑπομείνας τροπήν, διὰ Πνεύματος ἁγίου σάρκα καὶ ψυχὴν ἔννουν ἀνθρώπου ἔχων καὶ πάντα τὰ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου χωρὶς ἁμαρτίας, οὐχ ὡς ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ τινὶ ἐνοικήσας, ἀλλὰ αὐτὸς ὅλως ὁ Θεὸς λόγος τέλειος τελείως βρωθείς, οὐκ ἀλλοιώσας τὴν ἀνθρωπότητα, οὐχὶ δύο ὑπάρχων, ἀλλ' εἷς βασιλεύς, εἷς Χριστός, εἷς
The Lord shows the bread§2
2The Lord, in divinity and in humanity, without confusion and without division, confirming the divine nature and the human nature by the divine signs and by the human sufferings, about to come to the voluntary, celebrated, and life-giving death on our behalf, took bread in his holy and undefiled hands, showed it to you, God and Father, and having given thanks, blessed, and sanctified it, gave it to his holy disciples.
Greek · §2
Κύριος θεότητι καὶ ἀνθρωπότητι, ἀφύρτως καὶ ἀδιαιρέτως τὴν θείαν καὶ τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην πιστούμενος φύσιν τοῖς θεοσημείοις καὶ τοῖς πάθεσι τοῖς ἀνθρωπίνοις, μέλλων ἔρχεσθαι ἐπὶ τὸν ἑκούσιον καὶ ἀοίδιμον καὶ ζωοποιὸν τὸν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν θάνατον, λαβὼν ἄρτον ἐπὶ τῶν ἁγίων αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀχράντων χειρῶν καὶ ἀναδείξας σοι τῷ Θεῷ καὶ Πατρί, εὐχαριστήσας, εὐλογήσας, ἁγιάσας ἔδωκε τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ τοῖς ἁγίοις
The Institution of the Eucharist§3
3Having said to the apostles: Take, eat; this is my body, which is being broken for you for the forgiveness of sins. Likewise, after the supper, having taken a cup and mixing it from two elements, from the fruit of the vine and from water, he sealed the cup of immortality and gave it to his disciples, saying: Drink from it, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant, which is being poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.
In order that the
Greek · §3
ἀποστόλοις εἰπών· Λάβετε, φάγετε, τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ σῶμά μου τὸ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν κλώμενον εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν. Ὡσαύτως μετὰ τὸ δειπνῆσαι, λαβὼν ποτήριον καὶ κεράσας ἐκ δύο στοιχείων, ἐκ γεννήματος ἀμπέλου καὶ ὕδατος, ἐσφράγισε ποτήριον ἀθανασίας καὶ ἔδωκε τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ εἰπών· Πίετε ἐξ αὐτοῦ πάντες, τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ αἷμά μου τὸ τῆς καινῆς διαθήκης τὸ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν καὶ πολλῶν ἐκχυνόμενον εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν». «Ἵνα ὁ
The Body and Blood of the New Covenant§4
4May this bread, having been transformed, become the body of Christ: a divine body, a body of salvation for souls and bodies. And that which has been mixed in this cup, the same blood of Christ—the blood of a new covenant—is a salvation to us, so that we all may partake in the mysteries of your saints in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.
Greek · §4
ἄρτος οὗτος μετατραπεὶς γένηται σῶμα Χριστοῦ, σῶμα θεῖον, σῶμα σωτήριον ψυχῶν καὶ σωμάτων, καὶ τὸ ἐν τῷ ποτηρίῳ τούτῳ κερασθὲν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ αἷμα Χριστοῦ, αἷμα καινῆς διαθήκης, αἷμα σωτήριόν ἐστιν ἡμῖν, εἰς τὸ μετέχειν ἡμᾶς ὅλους τῶν ἁγίων σου μυστηρίων ἐν καινότητι τοῦ πνεύματος καὶ οὐχὶ παλαιότητι τοῦ γράμματος».