Preferred Eucharistic Prayer

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A couple of Sundays ago, my pastor, who seems to switch between the use of Eucharistic Prayers II and III when celebrating Mass, threw us a curveball and used Eucharistic Prayer IV for a change. It’s been so long since I’ve heard it that I didn’t actually recognize it. I was forced to consult the Missalette for the first time in ages just to figure out what text he was reading. It’s quite a beautiful canon, in fact; it would be nice to experience it more often.

Of all of the “Big Four”, I think EP III may be my favorite, with the good ol’ Roman Canon second.

Which Eucharistic Prayer/Canon/Anaphora do other CAF users like best?
 
Some of the passages from Eucharistic Prayer III that simply leave me in awe are:
From age to age you gather a people to yourself, so that from east to west a perfect offering may be made to the glory of your name.
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May he make us an everlasting gift to you and enable us to share in the inheritance of your saints, with Mary, the virgin Mother of God; with the apostles, the martyrs, and all your saints, on whose constant intercession we rely for help.
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Lord, may this sacrifice, which has made our peace with you, advance the peace and salvation of all the world. Strengthen in faith and love your pilgrim Church on earth; your servant the Pope, our bishop, and all the bishops, with the clergy and the entire people your Son has gained for you. Father, hear the prayers of the family you have gathered here before you. In mercy and love unite all your children wherever they may be.
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There’s such poetry to this particular canon; I just think it’s magnificent. “…and enable us to share in the inheritance of your saints…” So musical.
 
Definitely the Roman Canon, EPI. Beautiful. I love the list of saints, and am in awe when the priest recites the Supplices te rogamus (currently translated, “Almighty God, we pray that your angel…”).

My preference would be use the Roman Canon for at least all Sundays and all solemnities and major feasts (and Holy Thursday, All Souls, Ash Wednesday). I’m okay with use of EPIII for memorials and minor feasts, EPIII & EPIV for feria, and EPII for (at most) some feria only, such as maybe a weekday morning when people are heading out to work.

If the EPs for Reconciliation make it into the new translation, I don’t mind them for Lenten weekdays. I very much dislike the EPs for Children and have never heard used the ones for Various Needs, but it looks like I would dislike them too.

I also would be okay with returning to only the Roman Canon, but wouldn’t fight for that.
 
Bbigam said:
Definitely the Roman Canon, EPI. Beautiful. I love the list of saints…
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I love that about EP I, too:
In union with the whole Church we honor Mary, the ever-virgin mother of Jesus Christ our Lord and God. We honor Joseph, her husband, the apostles and martyrs Peter and Paul, Andrew, James, John, Thomas, James, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon and Jude; we honor Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, Cornelius, Cyprian, Lawrence, Chrysogonus, John and Paul, Cosmas and Damian and all the saints. May their merits and prayers grant us your constant help and protection.
(Through Christ our Lord. Amen.)
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Magnificent.
Look with favor on these offerings and accept them as once you accepted the gifts of your servant Abel, the sacrifice of Abraham, our father in faith, and the bread and wine offered by your priest Melchisedech.
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So noble.
 
Pregustator said:
Some of the passages from Eucharistic Prayer III that simply leave me in awe are:

There’s such poetry to this particular canon; I just think it’s magnificent. “…and enable us to share in the inheritance of your saints…” So musical.
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It’ll sound even better in the corrected translation! I find the whole thing to leave me in awe.
 
I like the poetic sense of EP III but I like the deeper focus of salvation history in EP IV.
 
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