Basil's anaphora

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The Basil's anaphora is an ancient church eucharistic prayer of the Antiochian type, which has been handed down in two clearly different reviews (“Egyptian / Byzantine Basil's anaphora”) and in various languages ​​and is or was in worship in several Eastern churches . Whether and to what extent Basil the Great can be regarded as an author is controversial.

An older version, the "Egyptian Basil's Anaphora", has become the normal text of the Eucharistic celebration in the Coptic Rite and is only occasionally exchanged for other forms. In the Byzantine rite , the more developed "Byzantine Basil's anaphora" was the main prayer until around 1000 and is still used today on certain feast days and during Lent. The Armenian Rite named and used it first as a prayer of Gregory the Illuminator and later adopted it a second time under its own name by the Byzantines. The anaphora of Basil's anaphora is also not unknown to the West Syrian and Ethiopian liturgies . It can be described as a truly ecumenical prayer.

The attempt after Vatican II to include a Latin adaptation of St. Basil's anaphora in the Roman Missal was postponed due to objections from Cardinal Ottaviani and has not yet been implemented.

literature

  • Hieronymus Engberding : The Eucharistic Prayer of Basil's Liturgy. Textual historical research and critical edition ; Munster i. W .: Aschendorff, 1931.
  • Achim Budde: The Egyptian Basilios Anaphora. Text - comment - story ; Münster i W .: Aschendorff, 2004; ISBN 3-402-07506-7 .
  • Gabriele Winkler : The Basil's Anaphora. Edition of the two Armenian editorial offices and the relevant fragments, translation ... ; Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 2005; ISBN 88-7210-348-7 .
  • Stefano Parenti: La 'vittoria' nella Chiesa di Costantinopoli della Liturgia di Crisostomo sulla Liturgia di Basilio . In: Acts of the International Congress Comparative Liturgy Fifty Years after Anton Baumstark (Orientalia Christiana Analecta 265). PIO, Roma 2001, 907-928.