La preghiera eucaristica: percorso storico-genetico in prospettiva sintetica

Abstract

Holding true the presupposition that the development of the liturgy consists solely in that of the parts of which it is composed, this contribution, having clarified that the “memory of the Lord” has not been preserved by the Church simply in the repetition of a minimal nucleus of words on the matter of the bread and wine, but in the articulated repetition of actions (“to take”, “to give thanks”, “to break”, “to give”), we propose offering a synthetic picture of the acquisitions which studies on the subject have reached concerning the origin and the evolution of each of the sections which constitute the Eucharistic Prayer, with a particular attention to the postconciliar anaphoric production in the Roman and Ambrosian contexts.