Eucharistic Prayer B

10 Eucharistic Prayer B

Although only part of Anglican liturgy since 1980, Eucharistic Prayer B has the deepest historical roots, being based on the Eucharistic Prayer in the third-century liturgy of St Hippolytus of Rome. Hippolytus himself speaks of his prayer as a received tradition, though that may refer more to shape and principle than text, and much of the actual wording may be the creative work of Hippolytus. The text, unused through most of Christian history, was revived through the work of Dom Bernard Botte, who incorporated many of its phrases into the current Roman Catholic Order of the Mass as its second Eucharistic Prayer. In the Church of England, in the preparation for ASB, Brian Brindley and Roger Beckwith worked with the text from Hippolytus and with the Roman prayer to produce an Anglican version. It is very little changed in Common Worship…