...play, intone the words from the Book of Common Prayer: "Here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy and lively sacrifice . . ." (CP, 36). Williams's statement to his friend Mrs. Hadfield concerning the Eucharist is therefore...

...by faithful communion on the "benefits of his passion," is able to "offer and present" unto the Lord "ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and lively sacrifice." The purpose of believers' testimony in the world is, according to the apostle Paul, to swell the eucharistic...

...rose. Hence instead of making or re-enacting a propitiatory sacrifice, prayerbook communicants offer "ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and lively sacrifice unto thee" in response to the perfect sacrifice already made. For liturgical purists whose advocacy...

...accept this sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving... And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and lively sacrifice unto thee ..." Or in the alternative prayer: "Almighty and ever-living God, we must heartily thank...

...century First Prayer Book of Edward VI Sixteenth century AND here we offer and present to thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls, and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and lively sacrifice unto thee: humbly beseeching thee, that whosoever shall be partakers of this holy Communion, may worthily...

...thy holy gifts, which we now offer unto thee"9 was not to be found, and the offering "of our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and lively sacrifice unto thee"10 was placed after the people received communion. In this service God acts; worshipers only...

...but daily (expressions of all Christian worship). "And here we offer and present unto Thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy and lively sacrifice unto Thee."91 Am I sure that I sacrifice and offer all that I am and all that I have daily to Him?...

...this our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving . . . and here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and lively sacrifice unto thee . . . through Jesus Christ our Lord') and in modern Anglican liturgies, as well as in the...

...further sacrifice was either necessary or possible. Worshipers did make an offering, but of themselves, "our souls, and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and lively sacrifice unto thee." It was a sacrifice "of praise and thanksgiving," not of transubstantiated bread and wine....

...prayer that sacrifice is re-enacted in the words " And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable holy and lively sacrifice unto thee." In this prayer it is made clear, as in the epistle, that the re-enacting depends on the...