Let us worthily fulfill the Act of Consecration of Man:
Out of the revelation of Christ
In reverence of Christ
In mindfulness of Christ’s deed.
The Father-God be in us.
The Son-God create in us.
The Spirit-God enlighten us.
Christ in you-
And may He fill your spirit.
The Father-God be in us.
The Son-God create in us.
The Spirit-God enlighten us.
(Epistle is read.)
Christ in you –
And may He fill your spirit.
I. The Gospel
The Father-God be in us.
The Son-God create in us.
The Spirit-God enlighten us.
My heart be filled with Your pure life, Oh Christ.
From my lips let flow the word purified by You.
For if Your Grace makes me worthy, my heart can be pure, and
pure my word.
So live Your word worthily upon my lips, and borne by thy
Spirit reach into those to whom it shall be proclaimed.
Your blessing, Oh Christ, stream living through the word.
May You be in my heart.
May Thy word flow from my lips.
Then from a worthy source and in a right stream, thy gospel
is proclaimed.
Christ in you –
And may He fill your spirit.
Now is proclaimed the Gospel from the ____ Chapter of ____.
May it be revealed through You, Oh Christ.
(Insert Pericope.)
We lift up our soul to You, Oh Christ.
The word of the Gospel wipes out that which lives impure in
our word.
An Almighty Divine Being, spiritual-physical is the ground
of existence of the heavens and of the earth who goes before His creatures like
a Father.
Christ, through whom human beings attain the re-enlivening
of the dying earth-existence, is to this divine being as the Son born in
eternity.
In Jesus, The Christ entered as Man into the earthly world. The birth of Jesus upon earth is a working of the Holy
Spirit who, to heal spiritually the sickness of sin within the bodily nature of
mankind, prepared the son of Mary to be the vehicle of the Christ.
The Christ Jesus suffered under Pontius Pilate the death on
the cross, and was lowered into the grave of the earth.
In death, He became the helper of the souls of the dead who
had lost their divine nature.
Then He overcame death after three days.
Since that time, He is the Lord of the heavenly forces upon
earth, and lives as the fulfiller of the Fatherly deeds of the Ground of the World.
He will in time unite for the advancement of the world with
those whom through their bearing, he can wrest from the death of matter. Through Him can the healing spirit work.
Communities whose members feeling the Christ within
themselves, may feel united in a church to which belong those who are aware of the
healing-bringing power of the Christ.
They may hope for the overcoming of the sickness of sin,
for the continuance of Man’s being, and for the preservation of their life destined
for eternity.
Yea so it is.
Christ in you-
And may He fill your spirit.
(A Festival reading is given during appropriate times.)
II. The Offertory
The Father-God be in us.
The Son-God create in us.
The Spirit-God enlighten us.
Receive, Divine Ground of the World, weaving in widths of
space and in depths of time, this offering brought to Thee, through me, Thy
unworthy creature.
I bring it because to You have also flowed my strayings from
You, my denials of Your being, my weaknesses.
With me bring it all who are here present, with me may there
bring it all true Christians who are born, with me may there bring it all who
have died, that they bury not their eternal being for the sake of their temporal.
Yea so be it.
Divine Ground of the World, who has fashioned out of the
members of His being, the being of Mankind in the supersensible, You who have
transformed what was fashioned, to You my willing turn.
The power of this willing springs from feeling, that unites
with Christ who lives in thy life.
And may my thinking live in the life of the Holy Spirit,
through all cycles of the Earth to come.
To You, Oh Ground of the World, be offered this draught of
health.
May it enliven the good, that that also can raise itself to
the heavens which has fallen to the earth.
May the fragrance ascend, as this God-willed being is
descended.
Yea, so be it.
We all draw near to You in soul, Oh Christ, that You offer
us with You, and Your light shine upon our day, and that You may accept us.
Come to us Spirit of the widths of space and of the depths
of time, and hallow our offering with Your holy being.
May our grounding in the Spirit fill the smoke with blessed
Spirit, through Christ’s living in our praying.
Yea so be it.
Christ in us – out of the Christened soul may the smoke
ascend, and upon us descend Your grace.
Christ in us – Christ in our prayer – our prayer be for your
ear.
Christ in the lifting of our hands – Christ’s light in our
daylight.
Before my mouth the threshold be guarded.
A wall hinder my error from streaming around me.
All evil be taken from my words, and good will pour into
them.
In the offering be borne the fire of love, creative of
being, and the flame beget timeless existence, that the good endure.
Yea so be it.
Christ in you –
And may He fill your spirit.
III. The Transubstatiation
The Father-God be in us.
The Son-God create in us.
The Spirit-God enlighten us.
Our prayer reach unto You, Oh Ground of the World, through
Jesus Christ, Thy son, our Lord.
Your blessing ray out over the pure offering, the offering
done in love, the offering fulfilled with good will.
Receive it from our pure thinking, from our loving hearts,
from our willing devotion.
We unite for this offering that we be the Community of the
Christ.
May He be in us.
He who makes hearts to be at peace, strengthens wills,
unites mankind.
So grant He unity to those who confess Him.
May He grant it to all who look towards Him, and would
follow Him.
Feel with blessing, Oh Christ, the confession unto You, and
hear our praying who are united in Thy name.
Receive Oh Father God, the Christ offering, even as it would come to life in us.
Be it brought for the redemption of souls, for the
attainment of true salvation, for walking with Christ.
Our praying unite with all, who bringing Christ to life
within them, have gone before us.
Their sheltering power ray forth to us.
Christ in us – hear our praying, Oh Father-God, for the
acceptance of our offering.
This offering is sent to You by the Christian Communion,
which knows Christ in freedom, as its helping guide.
Christ in us – Let live, Oh Father-God, in this Christ
offering, the body and the blood of your Son, who has His being in love.
Before the agony of his passing, He took the bread for the
revealing of salvation, and He looked up to You, His Father, thanking You, and
uniting His soul therewith.
Thus He gave it to the disciples to eat, and He said: Take
with the bread my body.
After sharing the bread for the way, he took the cup for the
making strong of salvation, and He looked up to You, His Father, Thanking Thee, and uniting his
soul therewith.
Thus He gave it to the disciples to drink and he said: Take
with the cup my Blood.
And He went on: With this word, Godhead is given again to
man, for on the cross will the body bear the new confession, and from the
cross will flow in the
blood, the new faith; take this into your thinking.
And so live in our thoughts the new confession, the new
faith: this thinking in us, Christ’s suffering and death, His resurrection, His
revelation, through all ages of the Earth to come.
To Thee, Oh Father God, the offering be brought: thinking in
purity, hoping for salvation, working from Christ.
May Christ hold sway in the bread that bears salvation, in
the water* that bestows strength.
Thou, Oh Father-God, did once receive the offerings of those
who had not yet Christ.
So may You receive the offering of those who bring it in the
name, the being, the power of Christ.
Thy Spirit’s power of grace work earthward, as this
offering strives heavenward.
Let the bread be Christ’s body.
Let the water* be Christ’s blood.
So would we make this offering in as much as Christ is in
us.
And we would unite in praying with those from whom You did
receive before us Your Son’s offering.
Before Thee, we can do no works; Before Thee, we would
overcome sin through Christ, through whom You, oh Father-God, do create, heal,
and ensoul – through Christ, through whom You, together with the Healing-Spirit,
do fulfill the revelation, the ordering of space, the course of time.
So be it.
Christ in you –
And may He fill your spirit.
Our Father who is in the Heavens
Hallowed be your name,
Your kingdom come,
Your will be done as above in the heavens so also on the
earth,
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who
trespass against us,
And lead not into temptation
But deliver us from the evil.
Yea so be it.
Amen
IV: The Communion
The Father-God be in us.
The Son-God create in us.
The Spirit-God enlighten us.
Thou, Oh Christ, didst say to those walking with Thee:
I stand at peace with the world; this peace with the world can be with you also, because I give it to you.
Therefore make me strong, oh Christ, that in me which wrests itself free from the load of sin, and in thinking and willing joins with You that it stand at peace with the world and unite with the world’s evolving which can come to pass through You in all cycles of time to come.
Yea so be it.
Oh Christ, Thou who didst go forth without sickness from the Father God, who didst with the Healing Spirit give continued life to the spirits of human beings, quell through Thy health-bearing Body the might of the sickness of sin and strengthen me in my wrestling soul with Thy health bestowing Blood, that I live evermore with Thee.
Thou who dost bear and order the life of the World, as Thou receivest it from the Father and makest it whole through the Spirit in all cycles of time to come.
Yea so be it.
The receiving of Thy Body Oh Christ be to me who am not sick unto death but unto the life of the soul and of my formative forces, the healing medicine.
Be it through Thee
Thou who dost bear and order the life of the World
as Thou receivest it from the Father
and makest it whole through the Spirit
in all cycles of time to come.
Yea so be it.
I take the bread and do so in the name of the Lord, calling:
Oh Christ, sick is the dwelling into which You enter, but through Your word my soul
becomes whole.
I take the bread and do so in the name of the Lord, calling:
Oh Christ, sick is dwelling into which You enter, but through Your word my soul
becomes whole.
I take the bread and do so in the name of the Lord, calling:
Oh Christ, sick is dwelling into which You enter, but through Your word my soul
becomes whole.
The Body of the Lord heal my soul that it continue to live.
Yea so be it.
Take me, for as much as Thou have given Thyself to me.
I take the cup and do so in the name of Lord, calling: Oh
Christ, I confess unto that which is revealed through You and the might of Man’s
adversary You take from me.
I take the cup and do so in the name of Lord, calling: Oh
Christ, I confess unto that which is revealed through You and the might of Man’s
adversary You take from me.
I take the cup and do so in the name of Lord, calling: Oh
Christ, I confess unto that which is revealed through You and the might of Man’s
adversary You take from me.
The blood of the Lord keep strong my soul, that in the time
to come it die not.
Yea so be it.
What my mouth has received become spirit in my soul and what
is offered in time change into medicine everlasting.
Thy body, Oh Christ, which I have received and Your blood
which enlivens me,
May they penetrate me that the sickness of sin be healed by the medicine
that makes whole: the sacrament.
May it come to pass through You, You who do bear and order
the life of the world, as You receive it from the Father and make it whole through the
spirit in all cycles of time to come.
Yea so be it.
(Priest delivers the Sacrament to those attending.)
The body of Christ, which you receive, and the blood of
Christ, which enlivens you, may they penetrate you that the sickness of sin be healed by the
medicine that makes whole: the sacrament.
May it come to pass through You, You who do bear and order
the life of the world, as you receive it from the Father and make it whole through the
spirit in all cycles of time to come.
Yea so be it.
The peace be with you.
Christ in you-
And may He fill your spirit.
The Father-God be in us.
The Son-God create in us.
The Spirit-God enliven us.
(Repeat opening Epistle.)
Christ in you –
And may He fill your spirit.
The Act of Consecration of Man: Thus it has been.
"In
1919 Rudolf Steiner translated the Opening Sections through Offertory,
in 1921 the Canon and Communion of the Missale Romanum (GA343a) and
illustrated the Tridentine Mass latin in contrast with the emerging text
of the Act of Consecration of Man - throughout
several volumes of lectures to priests - but Rudolf Steiner was quite
clear that he only facilitated Rittlemeyer to receive the text from the
spiritual world. The comment I made many years ago about begging down
the archetypes [of a tenth century Mass] is as was told to me by a now quite ancient retired CC
priest."
-James Gillen
* This is altered from the text used by the Christian Community. There was no fermented wine at the Last Supper- R. Steiner, The Mystery of Golgotha, December 2, 1906, Cologne. Chametz was not permitted at Passover.
Now is the time to turn wine into water in preparation for the "Water Man", for he leads the way.
He replied, "As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to the house that he enters, and say to the owner of the house, 'The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?'
-Luke 22.10
