Friends vs. Disciples

[JanetMCA]

Does anyone’s priest say the word “friends” instead of disciples? “He took the bread in his hands, and with eyes raised to heaven to you, O God, his almighty Father, giving you thanks he said the blessing, broke the bread, and gave it to his friends…” My priest has been doing this for the past couple of months now. I don’t know if it is correct or incorrect, but it is strange to hear.

 

[Trishie]

I have heard it said…it’s actually probably how Jesus would have regarded them. They were His followers, but they were His friends with whom he ate and lived.

 

[JanetMCA]

In searching some of the old threads, I found out that there are 13 approved Eucharistic prayers. It looks like my priest is using “Eucharistic Prayer for Masses with Children II” where the word friends is used in place of disciples.

catholic-resources.org/ChurchDocs/EPC1-3.htm

 

[LilyM]

Does anyone’s priest say the word “friends” instead of disciples? "He took the bread in his hands, and with eyes raised to heaven to you, O God, his almighty Father, giving you thanks he said the blessing, broke the bread, and gave it to his friends…" My priest has been doing this for the past couple of months now. I don’t know if it is correct or incorrect, but it is strange to hear.

It’s scriptural though - “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.” (John 15:15)

 

[palmas85]

I have heard it said…it’s actually probably how Jesus would have regarded them. They were His followers, but they were His friends with whom he ate and lived.

It is probably more accurate that He considered them to be His followers or his students as it were. He was considered by them to be their master, not their equal in any sense of the word. This idea that they were just a group of friends hanging out together was intriduced in the happy times following Vatican II in order to legitimize many parctices that have created havoc inthe Church today.

Make no mistake, the disciples were the followers of Christ, they did not walk beside him as His equals…

 

[drforjc]

Does anyone’s priest say the word “friends” instead of disciples? "He took the bread in his hands, and with eyes raised to heaven to you, O God, his almighty Father, giving you thanks he said the blessing, broke the bread, and gave it to his friends…" My priest has been doing this for the past couple of months now. I don’t know if it is correct or incorrect, but it is strange to hear.

“Say the black. Do the red.”
He should be reading the text word for word. If the Sacramentary says “disciples” he should say disciples. If it says “friends” he should say friends.

 

[japhy]

Does anyone’s priest say the word “friends” instead of disciples? "He took the bread in his hands, and with eyes raised to heaven to you, O God, his almighty Father, giving you thanks he said the blessing, broke the bread, and gave it to his friends…" My priest has been doing this for the past couple of months now. I don’t know if it is correct or incorrect, but it is strange to hear.

Assuming you quoted him word-for-word, I don’t recognize that Eucharistic Prayer at all. Anyway, of the 13 approved EPs for the US, only 4 of them use the word “friends” in the Institution Narrative: EP for Reconciliation I (consecration of wine); EP for Children I and II (consecration of both bread and wine), EP for Children III (consecration of bread).

He should be praying only the approved prayers of the Church, and he should do so with the words that Church has decided upon.