[Magdalen] Eucharistic prayer

[Scott Knitter]

Our Rite I does have "in remembrance of me." I haven't heard it in a long
time, as the 8 a.m. Mass is just a bit too early for me!

On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 6:07 PM Ferdinand von Prondzynski (Emeritus) <
f.von-prondzynski at rgu.ac.uk> wrote:

> > "For the" is in common use in New England and, I think, in eastern
> Canada,
> > For example, you hear "For the love of Pete!" or "For love nor money/"
> > Stuff like that. It may just be that it lingers here when it's been long
> > gone over there.
>
> Well, those are expressions in fairly common use on this side of the
> Atlantic also. But if you were to take the meaning of 'for love nor money'
> for example and apply it to 'for the remembrance of me', you end up
> suggesting that we should 'so this' so that people would remember Christ.
> Which is not what we are indicating in the sacrament. I just think it's a
> very strange formula - but then again, I doubt that Our Lord minds very
> much...
>
> Ferdinand
>
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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA