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Greek Anaphora

«It is worthy and just, O our God, to give thanks to you unceasingly for all your benefits which you have bestowed upon us, first, that you sent to us from heaven your holy child, who shares the throne of your kingdom, your co-eternal son, God the Word, who 299 having come in the last days, having taken our humanity, the Word having become flesh without undergoing change, through the Holy Spirit having the flesh and intelligent soul of a man and all that is of man except sin, not as dwelling in some man, but himself wholly God the Word perfectly made man, not altering the humanity, not existing as two, but one king, one Christ, one Lord in divinity and humanity, unconfusedly and indivisibly confirming the divine and the human nature by the divine signs and the human passions, being about to come to the voluntary and glorious and life-giving death for us, taking bread in his holy and pure hands and showing it to you, God and Father, having given thanks, having blessed, having sanctified, he gave it to his disciples, the holy apostles, saying: Take, eat, this is my body which is broken for you for the remission of sins. Likewise after supper, taking a cup and mixing it from two elements, from the fruit of the vine and water, he sealed a cup of immortality and gave it to his disciples, saying: Drink of it, all of you, this is my blood of the new covenant which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins». «That this bread, being changed, may become the body of Christ, a divine body, a saving body for souls and bodies, and that which is mixed in this cup may likewise become the blood of Christ, the blood of the new covenant, a saving blood it is for us, so that we may all partake of your holy mysteries in newness of spirit and not in oldness of the letter».

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Anaphora Graeca

«Ἄξιον καὶ δίκαιόν ἐστιν ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, εὐχαριστεῖν σοι ἀδιαλείπτως ὑπὲρ πασῶν τῶν εὐεργεσιῶν σου ὧν ἐδωρήσω ἡμῖν, πρῶτον μὲν ὅτι ἀπέστειλας ἡμῖν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ τὸν ἅγιον παῖδά σου, τὸν σύνθρονον τῆς βασιλείας σου, τὸν συναΐδιόν σου υἱόν, τὸν Θεὸν λόγον, ὃς 299 ἐλθὼν ἐπ' ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν, λαβὼν τὴν ἡμετέραν ἀνθρωπότητα ὁ λόγος σὰρξ γενόμενος μὴ ὑπομείνας τροπήν, διὰ Πνεύματος ἁγίου σάρκα καὶ ψυχὴν ἔννουν ἀνθρώπου ἔχων καὶ πάντα τὰ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου χωρὶς ἁμαρτίας, οὐχ ὡς ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ τινὶ ἐνοικήσας, ἀλλὰ αὐτὸς ὅλως ὁ Θεὸς λόγος τέλειος τελείως βρωθείς, οὐκ ἀλλοιώσας τὴν ἀνθρωπότητα, οὐχὶ δύο ὑπάρχων, ἀλλ' εἷς βασιλεύς, εἷς Χριστός, εἷς Κύριος θεότητι καὶ ἀνθρωπότητι, ἀφύρτως καὶ ἀδιαιρέτως τὴν θείαν καὶ τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην πιστούμενος φύσιν τοῖς θεοσημείοις καὶ τοῖς πάθεσι τοῖς ἀνθρωπίνοις, μέλλων ἔρχεσθαι ἐπὶ τὸν ἑκούσιον καὶ ἀοίδιμον καὶ ζωοποιὸν τὸν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν θάνατον, λαβὼν ἄρτον ἐπὶ τῶν ἁγίων αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀχράντων χειρῶν καὶ ἀναδείξας σοι τῷ Θεῷ καὶ Πατρί, εὐχαριστήσας, εὐλογήσας, ἁγιάσας ἔδωκε τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ τοῖς ἁγίοις ἀποστόλοις εἰπών· Λάβετε, φάγετε, τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ σῶμά μου τὸ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν κλώμενον εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν. Ὡσαύτως μετὰ τὸ δειπνῆσαι, λαβὼν ποτήριον καὶ κεράσας ἐκ δύο στοιχείων, ἐκ γεννήματος ἀμπέλου καὶ ὕδατος, ἐσφράγισε ποτήριον ἀθανασίας καὶ ἔδωκε τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ εἰπών· Πίετε ἐξ αὐτοῦ πάντες, τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ αἷμά μου τὸ τῆς καινῆς διαθήκης τὸ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν καὶ πολλῶν ἐκχυνόμενον εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν». «Ἵνα ὁ ἄρτος οὗτος μετατραπεὶς γένηται σῶμα Χριστοῦ, σῶμα θεῖον, σῶμα σωτήριον ψυχῶν καὶ σωμάτων, καὶ τὸ ἐν τῷ ποτηρίῳ τούτῳ κερασθὲν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ αἷμα Χριστοῦ, αἷμα καινῆς διαθήκης, αἷμα σωτήριόν ἐστιν ἡμῖν, εἰς τὸ μετέχειν ἡμᾶς ὅλους τῶν ἁγίων σου μυστηρίων ἐν καινότητι τοῦ πνεύματος καὶ οὐχὶ παλαιότητι τοῦ γράμματος».