in the prayers ; to which the congregation answers : Hahenuis ad Dominum, " We lift them up unto the Lord.''"' Then follows the exhortation : " Let us give thanks to the Lord," with the response : " It is meet and rightP ' ' Though in various forms. See below. * Or, according to the Liturgia S. Jacobi: "hvus ax^V^^v 'idv vow koX ray Kaphias^ with the response : "A I ( 0 :< Ka\ B'lKaiov. In the Lit. S.Clem. : Priest : 'Avc» rbv § 97. THE CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHAEIST. 513 Tlie first principal act of tlie Anaphora is the great jprayer of thanhsgivmg, the evXo'yta or ev-x^apta-ria, after the example of the Saviour in the institution of the Supper. In this prayer the priest thanks God for all the gifts of creation and of redemp- tioUj and the choir generally concludes the thanksgiving with the so-called Trisagion or Seraphic Hymn (Is. vi. 3), and the triumphal Hosanna (Matt. xx. 9): "Holy, Holy, Holy Lord of Sabaoth ; heaven and earth are full of Thy glory. Hosanna in the highest : blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord : Hosanna in the highest." Then follows the consecration and oblation of the elements, by the commemoration of the great facts in the life of Christ, by the rehearsing of the "Words of Institution from the Gos- pels or from Paul, and by the invocation of the Holy Ghost, who brings to pass the mysterious change of the bread and wine into the sacramental body and blood of Christ. ' This invocation of the Holy Ghost ° appears in all the Oriental iitm'gies, but is wanting in the Latin church, which ascribes the consecration exclusively to the virtue of Christ's "Words of Institution. The form of the "Words of Institution is different in the different liturgies.^ The elevation of the consecrated elements was intro- duced in the Latin church, though not till after the Berengarian controversies in the eleventh centm'y, to give the people occa- sion to show, by the adoration of the host, their faith in the real presence of Christ in the sacrament. vovv. All (iravTes): ''Exofj.ev irpbs Thv Kvpiov. — Ei);^api(rTi';(ra),uej' tsJ Kvplai. Resp. : "A^tov Kal SiKaiov. In the Lit. S. Chrys. (still in use in the orthodox Greek and Russian church) : 'O lepevs' "Ayco trxiSuei' Tos KapSi'ar. 'O x^pos ' "Exo/xfv TV pos rbv Kvpiov. 'O lepivi' 'EvxapKTTriacoiJ.ev TtS Kvplcii. 'O x°P"'' "A^iov Ka\ Slicatoy itrrl trpocrKvvilv U are pa, Tlhi', Kal ayiov Hviv fxa, TptdSa b ixoov a lov Ka\ a.x<^ pio'T ov . * Hence it is said, for example, in the Syriac version of the Liturgy of St. James : " How dreadful is this hour, in which the Holy Ghost hastens to come down from the heights of heaven, and broods over the Eucharist, and sanctifies it. In holy silence and fear stand and pray." ^ 'EttikXtjo-js nvevf/.aTos ay'iov, invocatio Spiritus Sancti. ' They