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Neither in the Latin or the Greek church is the mass of the pre-sanctified a Missa sicca or dry mass: in which not only the consecration, but also the communion, and all those prayers which are said over the holy Eucharist, used to be omitted. See Durandus in Rationali c. 1.
There were Tenebrae on the following days, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, and Lothair was present on both occasions. "There is also a great office on Friday," said Father Coleman to Lothair, "which perhaps you would not like to attend the mass of the pre-sanctified. We bring back the blessed sacrament to the desolate altar, and unveil the cross.
It was a friendship, too, that was, as it were, pre-sanctified by the rising shadow of near death, fore-hallowed by the sure suffering of its coming end. It would be hard indeed to cut from Gianluca's heart the one flower of his loving belief.
Lidderdale ejaculated in wrath. Furthermore, the Bishop wanted to know if the report that on Good Friday was held a Roman Catholic Service called the Mass of the Pre-Sanctified followed by the ceremony of Creeping to the Cross was true. When Majendie departed, the Lima Street Missioner jumped a long way forward in one leap. Lidderdale pay him a visit at Fulham Palace as soon as possible.
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