Which Eucharistic Prayer is your favorite?

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Doesn’t that make EP IV available every Sunday except like major Feasts? When our Priest said it must not be used with any other Preface in a way he said it, I thought he meant that there are very few occasions it can be used. Now this is nice to know 😃 From what I’ve read about it, it really seems beautiful- made me re-think choosing EP1 so clearly at start of this thread
 
It can be used in Ordinary Time. Ordinary Time has it’s own prefaces but if you aren’t celebrating something that needs a specific preface, such as a saint day or solemnities, lent, etc etc, it can be used.
 
I’m looking forward to using EP IV next Monday!

I use EP I on “high days and holy days” - basically if there’s a proper communicantes (“in communion with…”) or (occasionally) on the feast of a saint mentioned in it (I’m following the example of an elderly priest I know and respect - if it’s good enough for him…). EP II makes an appearance a lot on weekdays (not so much on Sundays) along with EP III (which I also use sometimes on Sundays) and, from time to time, when the Spirit / readings / my homily moves me I use one of the EPs for various needs and occasions.
 
Not sure you can use it Monday.
Francis made the Monday after Pentecost Mary Mother of the Church.
I wish they’d reinstate the Pentecost Octave honestly.
 
I like the Roman Canon because of the lists of saints of the early Church. It gives a wonderful sense of how we stand in an ancient tradition and how we are united with the saints in the Eucharist.
 
Not a big fan of octaves. Repeating the same antiphons and psalms every day for 8 days in the LOTH gets very old, very fast. If they made the Octave using simply the daily psalms with a proper Gospel Canticle antiphon and the collect of the Octave, I’m all ears. But not another Octave with the same office day in and day out. Mind you the good thing about it, for those who sing the Hours, we get to know the antiphons really, really well by the last day in the Octave.

In any case a vestige does remain of the Octave of Pentecost: Trinity Sunday, which was the last Sunday in the Octave. Good enough for me!
 
Here is the issue I have.
Before Pius Xll greatly reduced Octaves in 1955, they used to have to group them into a classification based on orders. Easter and Pentecost were considered Privaleged Octaves of the First Order.
Pius Xll reduced it to just Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost, and then Paul Vl cut Pentecost out as well.
The issue I have is I think a lot of people don’t see the importance of Pentecost as they once did. Through most of Chrstian history it was right up there with Easter and Christmas celebration wise. The stories of cathedrals letting doves out with little red bows tied to them to symbolize the Spirit descending on the Church is so amazing.
I have made my opinion on this before, but I believe Pentecost is the second most important Solemnity in the Liturgical year, after Easter. It’s importance is so much to the birth of the Church and really the outpouring of the Spirit on the Apostles.
I agree that Octaves can be repetitive in the Hours. But I really think Pentecost was one Octave they shouldn’t have removed. I feel like a lot of people now just view Pentecost as the end of Eastertide now. Plus the Octave of Pentecost had the ember days in it. Another tradition I wish was never done away with. Just my opinion.
This is Wikipedia article but it gives a good history of octaves. It’s crazy how many they used to have before 1955!

Octave (liturgy) - Wikipedia

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don’t have a favorite, as they all achieve what is important. The Eucharist itself is the main focus
 
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You’re quite right - I’d forgotten about the memorial of Mary Mother of the Church! Still, there’s always next Wednesday (Tuesday being St Barnabas - having checked the Ordo this time!).
 
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