Living The Eucharistic Prayer

The author of this article explores the eucharistic prayer and asks how we as Christians can live this prayer and how we can be formed by this prayer. The author hopes to illustrate how the weekly ritual of assembling around Christ in prayer for the world will form in Christian people the mind of praise and the habit of service. It is difficult to describe how liturgy forms the faithful in the spiritual life. Yet throughout the world's liturgical movement, liturgists desire for participation in the liturgy to form the faithful into the community of God. But we who are eager for the formation of persons as Christians must beware that we do not merely gun our engines on the theory that more and better liturgy, like more gasoline, will get this church moving. For we know that there are countless people who regularly participate in Christian liturgical celebrations whose lives appear to be untouched by the experience. We speak autobiographically. Or we probe Christian history. Or we in…