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Supplementary Consecration
Consecration of additional bread or wine, or both, when there is not enough for all communicants. The celebrant may use the brief prayer for supplementary consecration provided by the BCP in the Additional Directions for the Eucharist (p. 408). In this trinitarian prayer, God the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit are asked to bless and sanctify the bread (or wine) that it also may be the sacrament of the precious Body (or Blood) of Jesus Christ. The celebrant may also say again the words of the eucharistic prayer instead of using the brief prayer for supplementary consecration (BCP, p. 408). The celebrant begins with the words following the Sanctus, and ends with the Invocation of the Holy Spirit (epiclesis) (see BCP, pp. 362-363). If Eucharistic Prayer C is used, the celebrant begins with the invocation of the Holy Spirit which follows the Sanctus, and continues through the narrative of the institution (see BCP, p. 371). In many parishes, consecrated bread and wine are reserved in a tabernacle and available for use if additional consecrated elements are needed.
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Glossary definitions provided courtesy of Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY,(All Rights reserved) from "An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church, A User Friendly Reference for Episcopalians," Don S. Armentrout and Robert Boak Slocum, editors. |
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