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The door opened behind them, and Chris came out pale and smiling with a little anxious-eyed monk beside him. His eyes lightened as he saw them standing there; but he turned again for a moment. "Yes father," he said. "What was it?" "You stayed too long," said the other, "at the famularumque tuarum; the rubric says nullus nimis immoretur, you know; nimis immoretur." "Yes," said Chris.
Not for the living only, but for the whole Church men offer that sacrifice pro redemptione animarum suarum, pro spe salutis et incolumitatis suae. Memento etiam Domine famulorum famularumque tuarum qui nos praecesserunt cum signo fidei et dormiunt in somno pacis.... Here in S. Apollinare at any rate for ever they await the renewal of that moment.
Even the glittering halpas, and the gleams of light above it where the five chapels branched behind even these things became shrouded; there was just a sheet of white beneath him, the glow of a chalice, and the pale disc of the sacrificial bread. Then, as he paused, with hands together "famulorum famularumque tuarum" there opened out the world where his spirit was bending its intention.
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