us that the whole movement of the Eucharistic Prayer, and actually of all liturgical prayer, is to the Father for his glory and honor. It manifests that the death of Jesus was not a tragedy, a failure, but the means of offering to the Father the highest act of worship. This is why we celebrate the death of Jesus rather than mourn it, and why we remember it as a profound religious act rather than try to forget it as a distressful disappointment. In the Mass we offer the sacrifice to the Father through