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The epiclesis (also spelled epiklesis; from Ancient Greek: ἐπίκλησις "invocation" or "calling down from on high") is the part of the Anaphora (Eucharistic Prayer) by which the priest invokes the Holy Spirit (or the power of His blessing) upon the Eucharistic bread and wine in some Christian churches.
In most Eastern Christian traditions, the Epiclesis comes after the Anamnesis (remembrance of Jesus' words and deeds); in the Western Rite it usually precedes.
While in the Roman Catholic Church, the Words of Institution are considered to be the moment of Transubstantiation (when, according to religious tradition, the eucharistic elements would change from bread and wine into the actual Body and Blood of Christ), the Eastern Orthodox Churches do not hold this belief. Instead, the Epiclesis is believed to be the moment at which this change is completed. However, the actual process of change is not considered to begin at this moment, but begins with the Liturgy of Preparation--it is merely completed at the Epiclesis. This is illustrated in one of the opening prayers of the Preparatory Service used in the Liturgy of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church:
Romanian Orthodox Bishop Sebastian serves the most beautiful and holy Epiclesis, Divine Liturgy.
Liturgy. You go to Mass week after week. It becomes a habit, part of the rhythm of life, maybe a personal or family tradition you feel you have to do. Somewhere along the line, you were faced with a choice: to keep at it, or let it go. Maybe you're facing that question right now. If you've already made the decision to go again next week, how do you give the experience meaning, your own meaning? The prayer of the faith-filled Christian—our prayer—is steeped in Tradition, with a capital "T". But it's very much about the here and now—about you...and us. It's not governed by passing fads or political agendas. It doesn't rest on stories of visions or miracles. It is a declaration of our common faith in our triune God and in each other as Church, despite our shortcomings. It is the unparalleled...
Una casa y escuela de la Palabra para familia, fraternidades y parroquias.
Epiclesis and consecration of the Eucharist, in the divine liturgy in the Byzantine Rite.
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Cardinal Tagle explains the opening dialogue to the epiclesis - the sending down of the Holy Spirit...
Invocación al Espíritu Santo en la liturgia maronita
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Silk...
enchanted veil, that embrace my bleeding memory
About your grace
when silent weaver make another face.
Eternal pledge in silent tears
wile this, scared watcher is...near
Eternal pledge, in silent tears
How many shard, I'll keep?
Prisoner in a shine
covered by the fears
Freedom, in vanish ring of time
Melted... from howling sun.
If only you believed
and cross my sad, armoring true
the gates over de rain
if you, if you, believed...believed in me. now
“Loosing in my pathways...before the shadows fall
how many time I called...how many time I'm waiting
prisoner in grave without a lid of wood
tear in terror, light of light...end to end and never days
Loosing in pathways...before shadows fall”
The veil on my surrender
your face into my eyes
forever turning back in mind
and never more my days arise
Eternal pledge, in silent tears
How many shard, I'll keep?
Prisoner in a shine
covered by the fears
Freedom, in vanish ring of time
Melted... from howling sun.
If you, if you, believed
Believe and die
For this, armoring true
For gates over de rain
My face over my mask...along my sadness
I'm afraid, I'm disappear
In fragile, human, blowing side
Our sin slowly rise
In the breath of mortal soul
You know my regrets
But waiting your caress
Epiclesis that what I see