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The publication os tho Liber Ordinum by Dom sirotinpiades Mihin reae his the student Some o the manuscriptrematiis O the old panisli rite From his e se elearly that in tho leventi contur the Conformatio sacramenti Wa regarded a tormerly usiones istin o tho Post Sanctus, the Qui pridie, and the Post Pridie and also that tho fixod Invoeation insertudiosor the Narrative o Institution in the Missa a publisliud by Cardinal imonos adno Plae there in the artior and tanta inpored rite. Astud o any o the manuscript remnant of the Mogarabierite an hardi do aught ut inereas the eonviction illi student that Spain as i id ut ne siti the wholo East, in the anne o consecratin tho ueharist. Theiragments of the tentii contur Mogarabie Missat in the Britisti usuum istorio assord videndo os the ad that

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''' his clauseris no found in the Gelasian Sacramentarν.

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B. Remember, O Lord, Thy Servant uni handinat is,N- and . , and ali here present, hos laith and devotionare known to Theo in ior hom me offer, or ,ho osse to Theo his sacrifice i ruise, to themselves an ior alltheiriwn to the redemption o their ouis io the liopeo salvation and well-being, and who pay thei Vow Unto Theo, terna God, livin and true. C. In communion illi an honouring the memory, especiali 'o the glorious ver Virgin Mary, Mother i

VI his clauso is no found in tho Gelasian Sacramentarν. his clauso is sal to have been adde by ope Gregory the

Grent.

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ior Ou, and sor many so the remiSSion o Siras. As ostenas ei thus things, ye hali do them in remembraneo os

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Amen.

The rs paragraph consist os a petition to God obles the oblationes, followed by a petition on bellatio tho Chureli, the ope, the Bisho of the diocese, andali Christians. The seeonii paragraph S a commemorationo tho living, and this is lollowed by tho hir paragraphsettin forti the communionis suinis and requestin thatthei prayers may be ad on ur bellati. The fourthparagraph Sh so the aeceptando of the oblation, forpeace, and orietiverane ironi evit. The fifth paragraphmahes petition sor a lessing on the elementes that they

alio Memento of the cloparto is antin in the Gelasian Sacramentar an Somo ther early SS. Cf. the gyptia rite a represente in the Sacramentar os Serapion, the Liturg of S. Mark, and the Liturg of the optio Jacobitos See p. 117, note 4.

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THE ROMA CANON MISSAE 27 is the Narrative o Institution, hieli, illi the exceptiono the epithet applied to ur ord' hundS und the expression the Myster o Falth V put intomu Lord 's mouthin horai ving of the eup, is in clos ac cord illi the NewTestamen accounts of the Institution Theri sol lows the

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Proeter, p. cit. P. 440.

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alterward a id it Side. Moroove the equi Vulenee illi Canon Missae in rogari to Eucharisti consecration)with ali Otho Liturgies ad eas the proceSS herebyit supplanted ali ther Antiphone in W0Stern Christon-dom. At the sume time his symbolica or motaphori ealcasti language in the Roman Invocation ad it astor to stight iis origina significande heia the germ of the newtheor made iis appearaneo in the ninth contury Vig. that the sepetitioni Christ 's,ordes o declaration, Thisis My Body, This is My Blood, ' osso ted tho consecration. This theory, e ma note in pnSSing, hoW grent Confusion os indispoia tho par o it promulgators for itfog the cloar distinction etw00n the origina institutiono tho ueharist y Christonii tho observarie of that servie bymis Chureli, and ignoring the plain talements of Scripture, represent Our Lord 's Ord os administration a the conSecration, hieli consecration o ad wrought y His tessing, bolore e administered the Saerament tomis Apostles This theor also ulterly defius the universat se of the quot ei Narrativo o Christ 'sInstitution a the alterii and charte for ou keopingos His ueharistic memorial a the prelude and round of ur oblation os the element os rea and wine in re- membrane os in and of ur impetration sor God 'sacceptane and leSSing pon them. The best omnientipon this prayer i. e. Supplices te is that o Monsignor ueheSne, ho nyS This praye is a froni exhibitin tho precision os the Greel formularios, in hiel thoro is a poetsi mention os the graue prayed ior, that is, tho intervontion of the Hol Spirit to effodi the transformation o tho breui and

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130 THE CONSECRATIO OF THE EUCHARISTwin into tho Bod an Blood os Jesus Christ. It is true,

nevertheless, 1 that it oecupies, in rogard to the subject- matte and the logica connection of the formulary the exae place of the Gree Epiclesis and 2 that it also is a prayer o God formis intervention in the myStery. But hiis tho Gree Liturgies iis here elea and Simpleternis, the Roman Liturg embodios it meaning in Symbolica fornis It prays that the ango of tho ordina tali the oblation ironi the visibi altar and ea itto tho ighost eaven, to the invisibi altar, osor theslirino of tho Divino Majosty. his symbolida tranS- sereno i in a contrar sense to that impliud in tho Groeli formulary it involves no the doseontis themoly Spiritupon the oblation, but the elevationi God' angelii thooblation to heaven. ut in both casus alitio it is astor ithas besen brought neu to, and has participato in the Di

partora'elle commetu corps et dii Sanidia Christ. Tho translation in the ex is roni tho Englisti edition Christian Orship Iis Origin and Evolution, S. P. . . London, 1903,9p. 181 182.