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The Manner of Celebrating High Mass : with Rules for Clergy in Quire FROM-THE-L1BRARY-OF TRINITYCOLLEGETORDNTO H)ttl| Kulee for in Bittre, fRanner of tli (Errors & manner^ of (Emnmunion out of LONDON : of 32 GEORGE STREET HANOVER SQUARE W ? t>Z- PRINTED BY THE DK LA MORE PRESS LTD., LONDON, W. 1 8 1985 of i0I| 1. The rules and instructions given in The Manner of Celebrating Low Mass should be followed as far as they apply, and these added below as well. 2. The missal is placed open on the Altar at the Epistle corner, and the Chalice and other things necessary are put ready on the credence, covered with the humeral veil. The Priest walks with Deacon and Subdeacon, who with heads covered hold their hands joined before the breast : the Acolytes bear the candlesticks before them with candles lighted, which are then placed on the credence. When the Celebrant has reached the lowest step of the Altar, standing there in the middle, with the Deacon on his right and the Subdeacon on his left, he makes with them the Preparation. of *If the Celebrant be a Bishop or Abbot celebrating with pontifical rites, he takes the vestments and other things as is directed in the Pontifical and Ceremonial of Bishops. And he must never omit the order of the Pontifical, whenever he celebrates with the Deacon and Subdeacon vested. 3. This done, the Priest goes up with the sacred Ministers to the midst of the Altar and there said ; having We beseech thee O Lord and kissed the Altar, he puts incense into the censer, the Deacon ministering the boat and the Thurifer the censer. The Deacon, bowing a little to the Celebrant, says Pray, Sir, a blessing, and kisses the spoon and the Cele brant s hand before and after. The Celebrant puts incense thrice into the censer, saying the while Mayest thou be blessed etc., and having put down the spoon makes the sign of the Cross with his right hand over the incense in the censer and blesses it. Then the Deacon, having returned the boat, takes the censer and gives it to the Celebrant, kissing first the top of the chains and then the Celebrant s right hand. The Celebrant making a deep bow to the Cross censes it thrice, say and bowed ing nothing ; having again to the Cross, he censes the Altar, as is directed in The Office of Celebrant. If theTabernacle of 4. the most Holy Sacrament be on the Altar, when he has taken the censer he genuflects, and this he always does whenever he passes before the midst of the Altar. The Deacon assist 5. and Subdeacon the Celebrant on either side when he censes and ; when they pass before the Cross they always genuflect (un less the custom of the church be to bow, in which case they will always bow, and not genuflect, except to the Holy Sacrament). Then the Cele brant, with the Deacon standing:Q on his right and the Subdeacon on the of Deacon s right at the Epistle corner, reads the Introit and Kyrie or Ten Commandments. (If the Gloria is to be sung at this place, he follows the directions in No. 16.) 6. When he says The Lord be with you, and the Collects, the Deacon and Subdeacon stand one behind the other at the Celebrant s back. Let us bow the knee is sung by the Deacon, and Arise by the Subdeacon, the former being the first to genuflect and the latter the first to rise ; the Celebrant does not genuflect. Towards the end of the last Collect the Subdeacon takes the book of Epistles with both hands, and having genuflected in the middle goes to the Epistle side over against the Altar and sings the Epistle, which the Celebrant reads in a low voice, the Deacon assisting him on the right, and likewise the Gradual, Tract or Alleluia, etc. The Epistle ended, the Subdeacon again genu flects in the middle to the Altar, goes SMgft to the Celebrant, genuflects, kisses his hand, and is blessed by him, except in Masses of the Dead. 7. Then the Subdeacon takes the Celebrant s missal, carries it to the Gospel corner, and there serves the Celebrant, who says Cleanse my heart etc. in a low voice in the midst of the Altar, and then reads the Gospel, which he does not kiss at the end. When the book of Gospels has been brought by the Deacon to the Altar, he puts incense into the censer. Then the Deacon, kneeling before the Altar, says Cleanse my heart, and taking the Gospel-book from the Altar he kneels on the top step and asks the Celebrant s blessing : then having kissed his hand he goes with the Subdeacon on his left, and the Thurifer and two Acolytes with lighted candles (which they have taken from the credence) before, to the place of the Gospel over against the Altar towards the people, and there, Jftanner of while the Subdeacon holds the book between the two Acolytes holding their lighted candles, he says with The Lord be with hands joined you, and continues as is appointed in The Office of Deacon. The Celebrant, having blessed the Deacon, returns to the Epistle corner and stands there with hands joined. The Gospel ended, the Priest kisses the book, which is brought to him by the Subdeacon, saying By the words etc., and is censed thrice by the Deacon. Then standing in the midst of the Altar he begins the Creed, if it is to be said, the Deacon and Subdeacon standing be hind him, and going up, the Deacon to his right and the Subdeacon to his left, to continue it with him in a low voice to the end. 8. When And was incarnate has been sung, the Deacon takes the burse from the credence, and carries it in both hands with the usual reverences to the Altar, on which he spreads the 6 Corporal, and returns to the Celebrant. When the Creed is not said, the Sub- deacon brings the burse with the Chalice, as below. 9. When Let us pray has been said at the Offertory, the Deacon and Sub- deacon go to the Altar at the Epistle corner ; the Deacon receives the Chalice from the hands of the Sub- deacon, who with the veil hanging from his shoulders has brought it with the Paten and Host covered with the Pall from the credence, holding it in his left hand and placing the other upon it over the veil, and accompanied by an Acolyte bearing the cruets of wine and water. The Deacon un covers the Chalice and gives the Paten with the Host to the Celebrant, kissing his hand, while the Subdeacon wipes the Chalice with the purificator. The Deacon takes the wine cruet from the Subdeacon s hand, and puts wine in the Chalice, and the Subdeacon meanwhile shews the water cruet to of the Celebrant, saying Pray, Sir, a blessing, who makes the sign of the Cross towards it and says the prayer O God who hast laid etc., while the Subdeacon pours a little water into the Chalice the Deacon it to ; gives the Celebrant with the usual kisses, and holding the foot or supporting the Celebrant s right arm, says with him We here present etc., and when it has been placed on the Altar he covers it with the Pall. Then he puts the Paten in the Subdeacon s right hand, and he, standing at the Epistle corner, covers it with the end of the veil, and then goes behind the Cele brant before the midst of the Altar, where having made a genuflection he stands holding the Paten raised until the end of the Lord s Prayer, as below. In Masses of the Dead and on Good Friday the Paten is not held by the Subdeacon. 10. The Celebrant, having said Come, O thou Fount of Holiness etc., 8 while the Deacon ministers the boat and says Pray, Sir, a blessing, puts incense into the censer, saying May blessed. Michael etc. Then taking the censer from the Deacon s hand, and without any reverence to the Cross, he censes the oblation, swinging the censer thrice over the Chalice and Host together in the form of a Cross, and thrice round the Chalice and Host, twice from right to left and once from left to right (the Deacon meanwhile holding the foot of the Chalice with his right hand), and distributing the words at each censing as is appointed in The Office of Celebrant. Then he makes the reverence, and censes the Cross and Altar, as above No. 3., the Deacon assisting, while he says Let etc. he censes the my prayer ; when Cross, the Deacon moves the Chalice to the Epistle side (not off the Cor poral), and when the Cross has been censed, puts it back in its place. When he gives the censer back to the Deacon he says May the Lord kindle etc., and is censed by him. Then the Deacon censes the choir, and lastly the Subdeacon : afterwards the Dea con is himself censed by the Thurifer, who then censes the Acolytes and the people. When the Celebrant has been censed he washes his hands, the Acolytes ministering the water, basin and towel. ii. When there is a Communion, the Deacon, kneeling on the top step at the Epistle side, facing the Gospel side, makes the Confession, the Cele brant and Ministers turning towards him meanwhile : the Celebrant then " gives the Absolution, says the Com fortable words," and turns to the Altar for the Preface.
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