Humbly we pray Thee, O God, be pleased to make this same offering wholly blessed , to consecrate it and approve it, making it reasonable and acceptable, so that it may become for us the Body and Blood of Thy dearly beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Who, the day before He suffered, took bread into His Holy and venerable hands, and having lifted up His eyes to heaven, to Thee, God, His Almighty Father, giving thanks to Thee, blessed it, broke it, and gave it to His disciples, saying: Take and eat ye all of this: For This Is My Body.

In Christian liturgy the Elevation is the ritual of raising the consecrated elements of bread and wine during the celebration of the Eucharist. The term refers principally to the elevation immediately after the consecration of each element (though see below). The practice by which the priest genuflects in adoration immediately after pronouncing the words "Hoc est enim corpus meum" and then elevates the host to show it to the people for adoration by them was instituted in the Western Church, in the thirteenth century, in opposition to the view that the host was not consecrated until the wine in the chalice had been consecrated too. Elevation of the chalice for adoration by the people was introduced only in the fourteenth century. it is a liturgical expression of the doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.