Suscipe meaning

Suscipe (pronounced "SOOS-chee-peh") is the Latin word for 'receive'. While the term was popularized by St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, who incorporated it into his Spiritual Exercises in the early sixteenth century, it goes back to monastic profession, in reciting Psalm This article focuses rather on its popularization through the Exercises and through the Roman Missal, where it introduces the Canon of the Mass.

In the Mass

The Suscipe prayer concludes the Preparation of the Gifts in the Mass, in anticipation of the transubstantiation to occur in the Eucharistic Prayer. This prayer, translated in the Missal as “May the Lord accept,” first appeared in Charles the Bald’s () prayer book.

This follows the priest's words, the Orate fratres: “Pray, brethren (brothers and sisters), that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God, the almighty Father.”^[1]

The Latin ‘suscipio’ is used instead of ‘accipio’ or ‘recipi