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[ratchet30]

Does your pastor elevate the host? If they do, do you know why? I've seen it in an ELCA church and it looks glorious for some reason. What do you think?

 

[Aibrean]

Since no one has posted in here, I'll say that my LCMS pastor does.

 

[alexnbethmom]

i'm LCMS - my home church pastor and Rev elevates just chest-high.

 

[PreachersWife2004]

None that I know of do. Normally they gesture or point at each as they're saying the words.

You might find a few who elevate it though.

 

[bach90]

I'm in the LCMS, but here's what Luther wrote when he published the Deutche Messe regarding the elevation:

The elevation we desire not to abolish but to retain, for it fits in well with the Sanctus in German, and means that Christ has bidden us to think of Him. Just as the sacrament is bodily elevated and yet Christ's body and blood therein are invisible, so through the word of the preacher He is commemorated and uplifted, and in the reception of the sacrament recognized and worshipped: and yet it is all a matter of faith and not of sight, how Christ gave His body and blood for us and still daily intercedes with God to bestow His grace upon us.