The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
Byzantine rite · Eastern Orthodox Church · Greek
Not a eucharist but a communion from gifts consecrated on the Sunday: the Great Fast admits no full liturgy on its weekdays, and this is what is done instead.
leavened bread, consecrated beforehand
A form of The Eucharist — The thing the church does that it has always done, and the one whose FORM divides more sharply than its meaning: East and West agreed on what it is for a thousand years and broke over the bread.
How the others do it
- The Roman Mass Rome · unleavened bread
- The Divine Liturgy of St Basil Byzantium · leavened bread
- The Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom Byzantium · leavened bread
- The Liturgy of St Mark Copts · leavened bread
- The Liturgy of St James Syriac · leavened bread
- The Holy Qurbana of Addai and Mari Seleucia · leavened bread
After The Rudder (Pedalion) · the Rudder, on Trullo canon 52.