Anaphora Graeca

It is fitting and just, our God, to give thanks to you unceasingly for all the benefactions you have bestowed upon us: first, because you sent down to us from heaven your holy child, the co-throned one of your kingdom, your co-eternal son, the God Word, who came at the end of the days, having taken our humanity, the Word become flesh without undergoing change, having flesh and a rational soul of a man through the Holy Spirit and all things of man without sin, not as having dwelt in some man, but the God Word himself wholly and perfectly consummated, not altering the humanity, not being two, but one king, one Christ, one Lord in divinity and humanity, confirming the divine and the human nature unconfusedly and indivisibly by the divine signs and the human passions, about to come to his voluntary, glorious, and life-giving death for us, having taken bread in his holy and immaculate hands and having offered it up to you, God and Father, having given thanks, having blessed, having sanctified, he gave to his disciples, the holy apostles, saying: “Take, eat; this is my body, broken for you for the remission of sins.” Likewise after dining, having taken a cup and having mixed from two elements, from the produce of the vine and water, he sealed a cup of immortality and gave to his disciples, saying: “Drink from it, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant, poured out for you and for many for the remission of sins.

That this bread, having been transformed, may become the body of Christ, a divine body, a body salutary for souls and bodies, and that which is mixed in this cup, blended together, may become the blood of Christ, blood of the new covenant, blood salutary for us, so that we all may partake of your holy mysteries in the newness of the spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.