flight, and take its departure from thee: that thou be made clean for the Holy Sacraments and for adoption of body and soul unto those who are thereby anointed for the remission of all their sins; and that their bodies be prepared as a holy dwelling-place for the receiving of every spiritual grace. Through the same Lord Jesus Christ, who shall come to judge the quick and the dead, and the world by fire. R. Amen.

Then without mitre, he blesses the Oil, saying :
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.

Let us pray.

GOD, who meetest with the blessing of increase every growth and putting forth of the life of the soul, and who strengthenest by the power of the Holy Spirit the first steps on awakening of conscious life of the childmind, we beseech thee, O Lord, that thou be pleased to send forth thy bles sing upon this oil, and grant that they who come to the font of blessed regeneration receive cleansing of soul and body by being anointed with this thy creature; that whatever spot may cleave to them of the hostile contact of evil spirits, may at the touch of this blest oil vanish away; let there not be a place or opportunity

of lodgement for forces and powers of spiritual evil, nor any means be left for diabolical spirits to lie in wait to catch the soul unawares. But unto thy servants coming to Faith, and to be cleansed by the operation of thy Holy Spirit, may this unction be a provision for that eternal salvation which even now at their new birth into the heavenly sphere, they are to lay hold of in the Sacrament of Baptism. Through Jesus Christ Thy Son, Our Lord, who is come to judge both the quick and the dead, and the world by fire. R. Amen. Then the Bishop, and the twelve Priests successively, thrice salute the Oil of Catechumens, as in the case of the Chrism, saying, Hail, Holy Oil, and then kiss the vessel. After which the two vessels are carried back to the sacristy in the same order as when brought therefrom, the Cantors and Choir singing the remainder of the Hymn O Redemptor.

LOR

ORD, by the unction of this Chrism May all thy servants be renewed: And that lost dignity of man

To its first glory be restored.

Choir. Do thou, Redeemer, deign accept

The song of them that sing Thy praise.

The soul in sacred waters washed
From every stain of sin is freed;
And brows anointed with this Oil
The Holy Spirit's gifts receive.
Do thou, &c.

Thou who, the Father's equal Son,
Was born for us a Virgin's child:
From thine anointed drive back death,
And give them everlasting light.
Do thou, &c.

So shall this day to us become
A day of never-ending joy;

A sacred day: well worth our praise: A day whose brightness ne'er shall fade.

Do thou, &c.

The Oil remaining over in the phials from the previous year is burnt in the lamps before the Blessed Sacrament; whilst the oil and the wool remaining in the pyxes are cast into the fire, and the pyxes refilled with the newly blest oil and fresh wool.

Meanwhile the Bishop returns to the Altar and finishes Mass; after which, seated and having on his mitre, he bids the Priests to keep the Holy Oils with the traditional care and fidelity.

MAUNDY THURSDAY AT

MASS

The Introit.

us to UT as for us, it behoveth us to glory

Christ in whom is our salvation, our life, and resurrection; by whom we were saved, and obtained our freedom. Ps. 67. God be merciful unto us, and bless us and show us the light of his countenance and be merciful unto us.

The bells are rung during the Gloria in Excelsis (which is said on this day), and then not again till Holy Saturday.

The Collect.

GOD, from whom Judas received the punishment of his crime as well as the thief, the reward of his confession; grant to us the fruit of thy propitiation: that, as Jesus Christ our Lord in His Passion accorded to each the due reward of his deserts, so to us purged of the error of our former life, he may impart the grace of his Resurrection: who liveth, &c.

IN

The Epistle. 1 Cor. 11. 17.

N this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall

I praise you in this? I praise you not. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examime himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. Wherefore my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another, and if any man hunger, let him eat