Other Liturgical Traditions
Although the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is associated primarily with the Orthodox Churches and the Byzantine Catholics, the concept has spread to other Churches.
Thus, for instance, there is a similar penitential rite used by the Roman Catholic Church on Good Friday, officially called the rite of Commemoration of the Lord's Passion, but informally known, especially among Catholics who celebrate the Liturgy in accordance with the Tridentine discipline, as Mass of the Presanctified. Because there is no consecration of the gifts in that Liturgy, it is not technically a Mass; rather, it is a reception of Holy Communion from the reserved Sacrament which was consecrated at Mass on Holy Thursday.
In the Anglican Communion, the Book of Common Prayer for the United States provides for the consecration of the Reserved Sacrament on Maundy Thursday and its reception at the special liturgy of Good Friday.
The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts was once used in the West Syrian Rite, the liturgy of the Syriac Orthodox Church, but has fallen into disuse in most of the Syriac Orthodox communion. However, it continues to be used in the Malankara Rite, a variant historically practiced in the Malankara Church of India, and now practiced by the several churches that descended from it.
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