What are your favorite prayers in the EF?

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I have a special affinity for the Collect from the Fourth Sunday of Lent:
Concéde, quǽsumus, omnípotens
Deus: ut, qui ex merito
nostræ actiónis afflígimur,
tuæ grátiæ consolatióne respirémus.
Per Dóminum nostrum.
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Grant, we beseech You, almighty
God, that we who justly suffer
for our sins may
find relief in the help of Your grace.
Through Our Lord…
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Personally, it’s the Offertory in the Usus Antiquior, in particular the Veni Sanctificator. 🙂
 
I love communion in the EF, including the priest’s prayer

Corpus Domini nostri Jesu Christi custodiat animam tuam in vitam aeternam. Amen.

How and why that got shortened to “Body (Blood) of Christ” is beyond me.
 
To me the prayer right before the Priest receives the Precious Blood…

“What shall I render to the Lord for all the things he hath rendered to me? I will take the chalice of salvation and I will call upon the Name of the Lord. Praising I will call upon the Lord, and I shall be saved from mine enemies.”

Simply beautiful. :bighanky:
 
I’m always touched by the priest’s humble prayers of petition and penitence.

I especially love the one before he (or the deacon) reads the holy Gospel:
Cleanse my heart and my lips, O almighty God, Who didst cleanse with a burning coal the lips of the prophet Isaias; and vouchsafe in Thy loving kindness so to purify me that I may be enabled worthily to announce Thy holy Gospel. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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I’m also struck by the sublime description of the Blessed Trinity in the usual preface to the Canon. It hits me every time.
…the Father almighty, the everlasting God: Who, together with Thine only-begotten Son and the Holy Ghost, art one God, one Lord, not in the singleness of one Person, but in the Trinity of one substance. For that which, according to Thy revelation, we believe of Thy glory, the same we believe of Thy Son, the same of the Holy Ghost, without difference or distinction; so that in the confession of one true and eternal Godhead we adore distinctness in persons, oneness in essence, and equality in majesty…
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PietroPaolo said:
I love communion in the EF, including the priest’s prayer

Corpus Domini nostri Jesu Christi custodiat animam tuam in vitam aeternam. Amen.

How and why that got shortened to “Body (Blood) of Christ” is beyond me.
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It is in the OF. The priest prays it silently. Check sec. 133 of the Communion Rite section in the Missal:
  1. Et sacerdos, versus ad altare, secreto dicit:
    Corpus Christi custodiat me in vitam aeternam.
    Et reverenter sumit Corpus Christi.
    Deinde accipit calicem et secreto dicit:
    Sanguis Christi custodiat me in vitam aeternam.
    Et reverenter sumit Sanguinem Christi.
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PietroPaolo said:
I love communion in the EF, including the priest’s prayer

Corpus Domini nostri Jesu Christi custodiat animam tuam in vitam aeternam. Amen.

How and why that got shortened to “Body (Blood) of Christ” is beyond me.
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It was practiced in ancient times, so it is not new. 👍
 
In honor of Gaudete Sunday, I’d also like to say that I really love the Communion chant:
Is 35:4.
Dícite: pusillánimes, confortámini et nolíte timére: ecce, Deus noster véniet et salvábit nos.
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Say to those who are frightened: Be strong, fear not! Here is our God, He comes to save us.
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