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ROMAN  LITURGY Ordinary of the Mass . r . Introit, or as it is always called in the Sarum rite, " Office," a Psalm or part of a Psalm sung at the entry of the priest, or clergy and choir . 2 . Kyrie eleison, ninefold, and sometimes lengthily farsed representing an older, now obsolete, litany . 3 . Collect, i.e. the collect for the day . 4 . Prophetic lection, now obsolete, except on the Wednesday and Saturday Ember Days, Good Friday and Easter Even, and Wednesday after fourth and sixth Sundays in Lent . 5 . Epistle . 796 6 .

Gradual . A few verses from the Psalms, the shrunken remainder of a whole Psalm . 7 . Sequence A hymn now obsolete except on Feast of the Seven Dolours, Easter, Pentecost, Corpus Christi and at Masses for the dead . 8 . Gospel . 9 Creed . to . Collect, now obsolete, though the unanswered invitation, " Let us pray," still survives . t I . Offertory A verse or verses from the Psalms sung at the offering of the elements . 12 .

Secret . A prayer or prayers said at the conclusion of the Offertory . 13 . Sursum Corda . " Lift up your hearts.' with following vesicles . 14 . Preface . There are now ten proper or special prefaces and one common preface . In older missals they were extremely numerous, almost every Sunday and Holy-day having one assigned to it . Many of them were very beautiful . In older missals, Nos . 13, 14 and 15 were sometimes arranged not as the concluding part of the Ordinary, but as the opening part of the Canon of the mass .

15 . Sanctus, or Tersanctus, or Triumphal Hymn, " Holy, Holy, Holy," &c., ending with the

Benedictus, " Blessed is he that cometh," &c . Canon of the Mass . t . Introductory prayer for acceptance . Te igitur, &c . 2 . Intercession for the living . Memento, Domine famulorum, &c . 3 . Commemoration of apostles and martyrs . Communicantes et memoriam, &c .

4 . Prayer for acceptance and

consecration of offering . Haile igitur oblationem, &c . 5 . Recital of words of institution . Qui pridie quam pateretur, &c . 6 . Oblation . Uncle et memores, &c . 7 . Invocation . A passage difficult of interpretation, but apparently meant to be equivalent to the Eastern Epiklesis or invocation of the Holy Ghost .

Supplices to rogamus, &c . 8 . Intercession for the dead . Memento etiam, Domine, famulorum, &c . 9 .

Lord's Prayer, with a short introduction and the expansion of the last petition into a prayer known as the " Embolismus." ro . Fraction, i.e. breaking of the host into three parts, to symbolize the death and passion of Christ . 11 . Commixture, i.e. placing a small portion of the consecrated bread into the chalice symbolizing the reunion of Christ's body and soul at the resurrection . 12 . Agnus Dei, i.e. a three-fold petition to the Lamb of God . 13 .

Pax, i.e. the kiss of peace . The ancient ritual of the Pax has become almost obsolete . 14 . Three prayers, accompanying the Pax and preliminary to communion . 15 . Communion of priest and people (if any), a short anthem called '" Communio " being sung meanwhile . 16 . Ablution of paten and chalice . 17 . Post-communion, i.e. a concluding prayer . 18 . Dismissal .

The Canon of the Mass strictly ends with No . 9; Nos . I0-18 being an appendix to it .