How do we begin the Liturgy of the Faithful?
Q797 · The Sacrament of the Eucharist
“The deacon says: Stand with trembling. Look towards the East. Let us attend. The priest says: The Lord be with you all. And the people answer: And with your spirit. Then he says: Lift up your hearts to the Lord. The people say: We have them with the Lord. Then he says: Let us give thanks to the Lord. The people say: You are worthy, O righteous One. Then he begins with suitable prayers as ordained by our fathers the Apostles.”1560
1556 Monastery of the Syrians, St. Basil the Great: His Life, Asceticism, and Church Canons (Arabic) (St. Mary’s Monastery (Deir al-Sourian), 2003): p. 543.
1557 Dom Gregory Dix, The Shape of the Liturgy (Bloomsbury, 2005): pp. 109, 106; Syrian Didache 2.45.
1558 St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Five Catechetical Lectures (On the Mysteries) 5.3 (NPNF II/7:153) amended. 1559 PL 38:1101A.
1560 In the Coptic rite of St. Basil’s Liturgy, the deacon says, “Stand in the fear of God …”