Mass intentions?

[henrikhank]

I understand you don’t have Mass intentions. Then what do you have instead?

 

[ibo]

I understand you don’t have Mass intentions. Then what do you have instead?

I cannot undertand what you mean…

 

[ConstantineTG]

I understand you don’t have Mass intentions. Then what do you have instead?

Of course we do not have Mass intentions. We instead have special intentions in the Divine Liturgy

At certain points of the Divine Liturgy during some of the Litanies, special intentions may be offered. Even during commemorations, you may add the name of the person you are praying for. It has happened to me once, after the Pope, Patriarch, Metropolitan and Bishop, I was mentioned at the end, “, servant of God.”

 

[Aramis]

I understand you don’t have Mass intentions. Then what do you have instead?

There is provision in the DL of St John (and of St. Basil) for multiple intentions in the same liturgy.

In some uses of it, people put forth loaves of prosphora (bread suitable for communion consecration), which will have a piece placed on the patten during the liturgy. If there are few intentions, or many people, one or more loaves may be used for the Lamb,which is the primary object of consecration, and becomes the Body.

In any case, each person or intention commemorated gets a particle on the patten, and may also get a verse in the litanies of the faithful.

 

[Wesley7]

Just like when I say prayers at home; I often ask to be included in the prayers of the Mass/Liturgy.

 

[Seamus_L]

When I’ve attended DL in Eastern Rite churches, they’ve had the intentions listed just like RC’s.

 

[5Loaves]

In some uses of it, people put forth loaves of prosphora (bread suitable for communion consecration), which will have a piece placed on the patten during the liturgy. If there are few intentions, or many people, one or more loaves may be used for the Lamb,which is the primary object of consecration, and becomes the Body.

In any case, each person or intention commemorated gets a particle on the patten, and may also get a verse in the litanies of the faithful.

There’s a good description of the rite of preparation on wikipedia

I’m in a Slavic tradition and we do use individual prosphora. There are prosphora and papers available before Liturgy, papers on which to write the names of the reposed and papers for the names of the living. Another option is a small booklet which some people use each time. At the conclusion of LIturgy you pick up your prosphora which of course is now “missing” the piece that was cut and placed on the Diskos. This is described very well on the St. Elias UGCC site.

In my parish sometimes some names are spoken in prayer during the Liturgy, for example within a Litany, sometimes none are.