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New. For centuries, the controversy surrounding the Eucharistic epiclesis ('an invitation to come upon') has centered on the attempt to pinpoint the moment of consecration. Referred to as transubstantiation, this moment focuses almost solely on the instantaneous change of the physical elements of the bread and wine, leading to an either/or situation that compounds the difficulty of the epiclesis question. Rather than asking if it is the epiclesis itself or the entire institution narrative surrounding and including the epiclesis that consecrates the gifts, liturgical scholar John McKenna suggests a more personalistic framework for understanding the real presence. His study presents early liturgical texts on the epiclesis as well as a brief history of the prayer's entanglement with the 'moment of consecration' question, followed by interpretations of these documents by modern theologians and liturgists. In his final synthesis, McKenna attempts to understand the real presence in light of human personal encounter. 'Early texts, ' he writes, 'indicate that the epiclesis rarely, if ever, referred to a change in the gifts apart from a change in those partaking of the gifts. ' In binding together the transformation of the gifts and the transformation of the faithful, communion becomes the 'sacramental expression of the reciprocity necessary to full, personal presence. ' 265 pp.
