The Hidden Depths of the Mass #24

The Eucharistic Prayer – The Epiclesis

Within the Eucharistic Prayer, the Epiclesis is the portion where we ask the Holy Spirit to transubstantiate the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Jesus.  In Eucharistic Prayer II, the explicit words are “Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we pray, by sending down your Spirit upon them like the dewfall, so that they may become for us the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

In the Eucharistic Prayer we also ask the Holy Spirit to transform us into one body.  This is most evident in Eucharistic Prayer III – “grant that we, who are nourished by the Body and Blood of your Son and filled with his Holy Spirit, may become one body, one spirit in Christ.”

Do you allow the Holy Spirit to transform you into what God calls you to be?