Epiklesis or Invocation of Holy Epiklesis or Invocation of Holy Spirit. The Great Intercession (the Church, emperor, saints, persecutors). Blessing of the people. Spirit. Kai μvýolŋti távτwv (all faithful departed, the Church, emperor, all men). Πάτερ ἡμῶν, with preface and Πάτερ ἡμῶν, with preface and Blessing of the people. embolismos. doxology. CHAPTER II THE EUCHARIST FROM S. AUGUSTINE TO The Protestants of the Church of England believe and reverence, as much as any, the Sacrifice of the Eucharist, as the most substantial and essential act of our religion, and doubt not but the word Missa, Mass, hath fitly been used by the Western Church to signify it, and herein abhor or condemn nothing, but the corruptions and mutilations which the Church of Rome, without care of conforming themselves to the Universal (Church), have admitted in the celebration. H. HAMMOND, Archdeacon of Chichester, Dispatcher Dispatched, A.D. 1659. § 1. Changes in the Roman Rite in England. THE great liturgical changes which took place in the west of Europe after the introduction of Christianity into England were partly changes in the rite or service employed, and partly changes in the interpretation and performance of the service. The changes in the rite were caused by the gradual spread of the Roman rite, its absorption of alien elements, and the birth of numerous diocesan uses of a Roman type adapted to the French and Teutonic love of variety and ceremonial.1 All the services of the Roman Church are 1 It is worth noting that most of the ceremonies of the modern Roman Church which are of a spectacular character are not of Roman origin. Among such may be mentioned the censing of persons and oblations, the Veneration of the Cross on Good Friday, the manner of employing lights at Tenebrae, the anointing of a priest at his ordination, and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. 36 |