and humility, and addressing himself to Jesus Christ, then present in his hand, he says thrice :-“ Lord, I am not worthy, that thou shouldst enter under my roof; but say only the word, and my soul shall be healed.” And giving the Communion, as in receiving it himself, he declares again, that it is the body of our Jesus Christ.
AMBROSIAN LITURGY.[1] - “Receive, O most merciful Father, this holy bread; that it may be made the body of thy only begotten Son, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Receive, O Holy Trinity, this chalice, wine mixed with water, that it may be made the blood of thy only begotten Son. In the name of the Father, &c.”—When the Priest puts the particle of the divided host into the chalice, he says: “ May the mixture of the consecrated body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ avail us, who eat and receive it, to life and everlasting joy.”-Before he takes the sacrament into his hand, the Priest says: “ Holy Lord, Almighty Father, Eternal God, grant to us so to receive this body of Jesus Christ, thy Son, and my Lord, that it may not turn to my judgment, but to the remission of my sins.” Dr. Poynter's Christianity, p. 148.
Syriac LITURGY.[2] — “O Lord, make us worthy to stand before Thee with a pure heart; and to administer and offer this venerable and unbloody sacrifice, for the destruction of our sins, &c.” Renaudot, T. ii. p. 549.—“May thy Holy Spirit come down upon us, and upon these gifts, which we have presented, and may he sanctify them and make this
- ↑ It was in use at Milan, when St. Ambrose was made Bishop of that See in 374 ; to which he made some additions. The Church of Milan has, to this day, preserved its ancient Ambrosian right, only with a few changes and additions.
- ↑ Called the Liturgy of St. Basil. We learn from St. Gregory of Nazianzum, that St. Basil composed prayers for the altar; and in his letter to the Clergy of Neocesarea, St. Basil speaks of the prayers he had made for the Mass. This Liturgy is one of the most ancient in use among the Syrians, and in other parts of the East.
