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But the sacramentary of Senlis, the calendar of commemorations, and the list of bishops, all are silent as to this Bishop Lethardus. Let me note for future use that these places, Soissons and Senlis, were in Belgic Gaul, that part of the continent which was directly opposite to the south-eastern parts of Britain.

Now in the primitive church the faithful, and even those in health, used to communicate not only during mass, but also at other times, as is evident from the office of the presanctified, at which, according to the Gelasian sacramentary, all present communicated, as well as from the numerous ancient instances of communion under one kind mentioned in the preceding chapter; for in these cases it was not received during the mass, and many of them are cases of "persons in health". In the same page Mr.

She told it herself, and requested permission to go and hear the examination. "What, on a brewing-day!" cried Mistress Winter. "Good sooth, nay! They be right sure to be put by to another day. If that be not brewing, nor baking, nor cleaning, nor washing-day, may be thou canst be let go for an half-hour then." "Prithee, Mistress Sacramentary, don thy velvet gown!" spitefully added Dorothy.

The most ancient sacramentary or liturgical work extant of the Roman church is that of Gelasius who was Pope from 492 to 496 . He collected prayers composed by more ancient authors, and also composed some himself: and this Gelasian compilation was reformed by Gregory the Great and reduced to one volume , which may be considered as the prototype of our present liturgy.

"Do but give me to wit, prithee, sweetest Sacramentary! So dear love I all Black Friars, I may never sleep till I know." "They be yet again remanded," replied Agnes dreamily. Though she felt sure what the end would be, it was impossible to realise it.

Tommasi from a very ancient manuscript in the queen of Sweden's library. Cave, Mabillon, Muratori, Assemani and other eminent critics admit its authenticity. There is however another sacramentary perhaps more ancient called the Leonian, because it is attributed by the learned to Leo the great, A.D. 450. Augustin and the other missionaries. Mr. Palmer and after him Mr.

And the Notary might ask in his turn: "Do you believe that the Christians either of the Greek or of the Western Church will be damned, according as the truth may be respecting the procession of the Holy Ghost? or that either the Sacramentary or the Lutheran? or again, the Consubstantiationist, or the Transubstantiationist? If not, why do you stop here?

According to the ancient custom of the Roman church, represented in the Sacramentary of Gregory, the profession of faith occurs between the hallowing of the water and the administration of the sacrament.

They have thus deprived their followers of the inestimable fruits of communion enumerated by Christ in the gospel yet these forsooth are the men who charge Catholics with a departure from primitive practice. See Act. Coer. p. 54. Martene t. 3, p. 132. It is found with little variation also in the Gelasian Sacramentary, in a very ancient Ordo Romanus, and some MSS. cited by Martene.

Anciently three masses used to be celebrated at Rome on this day, as is evident from the sacramentary of pope Gelasius; and at all the three the Pope himself officiated. Public penance gradually declined in the western church after the seventh century; and the three masses are now reduced to one.