epiclesis

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The idea behind epiclesis is to offer thanksgiving to God for his past mercies and to offer petition for his continued benevolence in the present.

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  1. In liturgics, that part of the prayer of consecration, as found in many liturgies, in which, after the institution and great oblation (or in some forms after the institution but before the oblation), God is called upon to send down the Holy Spirit upon the worshipers and upon the sacramental gifts. Also epiklesis.

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  • I would like to underscore only one of them: epiclesis. —  John H Armstrong
  • The idea behind epiclesis is to offer thanksgiving to God for his past mercies and to offer petition for his continued benevolence in the present. —  John H Armstrong
  • The prayer of epiclesis developed into the request for the Holy Spirit to make the elements of the body and blood of Christ become a blessing to all the people of Christ. —  John H Armstrong
  • Protestants rightly rejected the idea of "sacrifice" (at least in one sense) but they quite likely over-reacted by removing the prayer of epiclesis altogether, or that is my view at least. —  John H Armstrong
  • Congar argued that the entire life of the Christian church is "one long epiclesis." —  John H Armstrong
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  1. Greek ἐπίκλησις, a calling upon, invocation, from ἐπικαλεῖν, call upon, from ἐπί, upon, + καλεῖν, call: see calends, ecclesia, etc.
 

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