Good Friday
genuflecting before and after, and whensoever he passes in front of the Sacrament.
When he censes the oblation, he says:
Bless this incense, and take it up to thee, O Lord, and so let thy mercy come down upon us.
When he censes the Altar, he says:
Ps. 141. Let my prayer, O Lord, be set forth in thy sight as the incense: and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and keep the door of my lips. O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing: let me not be occupied in ungodly works.
As he gives back the censer to the Deacon, he says:
May the Lord kindle in us the fire of his love, and the flame of his everlasting charity. Amen.
He is not censed himself.
Afterward he washes his hands a little away from the Altar at the Epistle horn, saying nothing: then bowing down in the middle of the Altar, with hands joined, he says:
With humble spirits and contrite souls let us enter now thy presence, O Lord, and so offer our sacrifice to thee, that it may this day be precious in thy sight, O Lord our God.
Then turning towards the people, on the Gospel side, he says:
Pray, brethren, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God the Father Almighty.
He turns back by the same way, not completing the circle: and omitting all else, says immediately:
Let us pray.
AS our Saviour Christ hath commanded and taught us, we are bold to say: Our Father, which art in heaven: Hallowed be thy Name: Thy kingdom come:
