Mass (liturgy)

==Methodism==
[[File:Methodistcommunion6.jpg|upright=0.7|thumb|right|A Methodist minister consecrating the Eucharist elements during the Service of the Word and Table]]
The celebration of the "Mass" in Methodist churches, commonly known as the Service of the Table, is based on ''The Sunday Service'' of 1784, a revision of the liturgy of the [[Book of Common Prayer (1662)|1662 ''Book of Common Prayer'']] authorized by [[John Wesley]].<ref name="Wainwright2006">{{cite book|editor-last1=Wainwright|editor-first1=Geoffrey|editor-link1=Geoffrey Wainwright|editor-last2=Westerfield Tucker|editor-first2=Karen B.|editor-link2=Karen B. Westerfield Tucker|title=[[The Oxford History of Christian Worship]]|year=2006|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|location=New York|language=en|isbn=9780195138863|page=602|chapter=North America|first=Karen B.|last=Westerfield Tucker|author-link=Karen B. Westerfield Tucker}}</ref> The use of the term "Mass" is very rare in Methodism. The terms "Holy Communion", "Lord's Supper", and to a lesser extent "Eucharist" are far more typical.

The celebrant of a Methodist Eucharist must be an ordained or licensed minister.<ref>{{cite book|last=Beckwith|first=R.T.|title=Methodism and the Mass|publisher=[[Church Society]]|language=en|page=116}}</ref> In the [[Free Methodist Church]], the liturgy of the Eucharist, as provided in its ''Book of Discipline,'' is outlined as follows:<ref name="FMC-BOD2007">{{cite book|editor=David W. Kendall |editor2=Barbara Fox |editor3=Carolyn Martin Vernon Snyder|title=2007 Book of Discipline|year=2008|publisher=[[Free Methodist Church]]|language=en|pages=219–223}}</ref>
*The Invitation: You who truly and earnestly repent of your sins, who live in love and peace with your neighbors and who intend to lead a new life, following the commandments of God and walking in His holy ways, draw near with faith, and take this holy sacrament to your comfort; and humbly kneeling, make your honest confession to Almighty God.
*[[Confession (religion)#Methodism|General Confession]]
*[[Lord's Prayer]]
*Affirmation of Faith
*[[Collect]]
*[[Sanctus]]
**[[Gloria Patri]]
*[[Prayer of Humble Access]]
*[[Anaphora (liturgy)#Methodist Rite|Prayer of Consecration of the Elements]]
*[[Benediction]]<ref name="FMC-BOD2007"/>
Methodist services of worship, post-1992, reflect the [[ecumenical movement]] and [[Liturgical Movement]], particularly the ''Methodist Mass'', largely the work of theologian Donald C. Lacy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indianahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/donald-c-lacy-collection.pdf|title=Donald C. Lacy Collection: 1954 – 2011|last=Carpenter|first=Marian|year=2013|publisher=Indiana Historical Society|language=en|access-date=15 April 2018|quote=Lacy also published fourteen books and pamphlets. His first pamphlet, Methodist Mass (1971), became a model for current United Methodist liturgical expression. Lacy’s goal was to make ecumenism a reality by blending the United Methodist Order for the Administration of the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper or Holy Communion and "The New Order of Mass" in the Roman Catholic Church.}}</ref>