Worship: Hippolytus on the Eucharistic Prayer
Teaching on Worship from Hippolytus of Rome: Hippolytus on the Eucharistic Prayer
This is a spiritual discipline on eucharist and trinitarian worship, drawing on Luke 22:19-20, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 and John 6:53-56.
The Apostolic Tradition attributed to Hippolytus of Rome (c. 215) contains one of the earliest complete eucharistic prayers. It begins: "We render thanks to You, O God, through Your beloved Son Jesus Christ, whom in the last times You sent to us as savior and redeemer and messenger of Your will." This prayer establishes the basic pattern of all subsequent eucharistic prayers: thanksgiving for creation, remembrance of Christ's work, invocation of the Holy Spirit, and offering.…
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