13 Eucharistic Prayers

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At Mass today, the priest stated that there are 13 Eucharistic Prayers. Is there a website that lists all of them or offers the text of them?

Also, he stated that the Second Eucharistic Prayer is the oldest. I believe the first one, the Roman Canon, is?
 
There are, amazingly, 13:

the original 4 from 1969
the 2 originally approved for the Holy Year of 1975
the 3 originally approved for Children’s Masses (the most problematic of the bunch, arguably)
the 4 approved more recently

As for “Canon 2”, said to be Hippolytan, this is majorly problematic. It’s not the oldest. The facts are these: some few fragments survive of what appears to be an anaphora of the anti-pope Hippolytus (he was later reconciled to Pope Pontian when the Romans - who could care less about internecine Christian squabbles - exiled them both to Sardinia, where they died as martyrs). SCHOLARS DO NOT AGREE on whether the fragments represent an actual anaphora, or a mere commentary on one, or even the work of an antipope who didn’t approve of whatever Pontian was using at the time.

In the 1960s, in a Swiss hotel suite, “experts” from the Bugnini Consilium used those fragments as the “core” of a NEW COMPOSITION: Eucharistic Prayer II.

Those are the historical facts. It’s not, as some would have us believe, that we suddenly restored a third century anaphora. It’s a new composition, with inspiration and some phrases from the surviving fragments.
 
Thanks for the interesting history on Canon 2. I think it’s great that an anti-pope can become a saint. As a quasi-traditionalist, I to prefer the Roman Canon, which our parish priests tend to ignore (possibly for the same reasons I like it).
 
You could say there are even more if you take into account the Eucharistic prayers approved for particular areas in the world and the insertions (even in EP II and III) for Sundays and feasts that are not in our English missal but in the missals of other countries like the French and the Germans. You can even make it out on TV sometimes when the Pope uses EP II and III. Also in the UK, they have one for the Deaf, I think.
 
I understand also there was a controversy about one approved for Brazil that was part of the papal liturgy when the Holy Father visited recently.

Story here.
 
PKinsale said:
At Mass today, the priest stated that there are 13 Eucharistic Prayers. Is there a website that lists all of them or offers the text of them?
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The text for all of them is available in Latin, from the 2002 Roman Missal, at clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/DE/fn.htm .
The following will help with finding the pages they are on:
  1. 571
  2. 580
  3. 585
  4. 591
  5. 674
  6. 680
  7. 687
  8. 692
  9. 697
  10. 702
  11. 1271
  12. 1277
  13. 1283
 
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