What is the difference between the two Eucharistic prayers?
Some historians believe that the Liturgy of St. Basil was, until the twelfth century, the principle liturgy of the Byzantine Churches. Full of biblical imagery and theological depth, its Eucharistic Prayer is very beautiful. The Eucharistic prayer of St. John Chrysostom is shorter and not as rhetorical. It originated perhaps as a weekday anafora, and gradually replaced the Anafora of St. Basil.
