Cyril next describes the Invocation as “completing the Spiritual Sacrifice, the bloodless Service,” and then gives a summary of the “Great Intercession” as made “over that Sacrifice of the Propitiation.”  The Intercession, as represented by Cyril, is not simply a prayer, but an offering of the Sacrifice Mystag. v. § 8:  ταύτην προσφέρομεν τὴν θυσίαν., and this is in accordance with the usual language of the Liturgies.”  We offer to Thee, O Lord, on behalf also of Thy holy places, which Thou hast glorified by the Theophany of Thy Christ, and by the visitation of Thine All-Holy Spirit:  especially on behalf of glorious Sion, the Mother of all the Churches, and on behalf of Thy Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church throughout the whole world Hammond, Liturgy of S. James, p. 43..”  In the Liturgy of S. Chrysostom, as now commonly used in the Orthodox Eastern Church, we find the fuller phrase, “We offer unto Thee this reasonable Service on behalf of the world, on behalf of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church Ib. p. 115..”