Salt and Water to enlighten it with thygrace, and to fanctify it with the dew of thy bounty that whereeuer it shall be fprinkled, through the inuocation of thy holy name, it may chafe away all fuggeftions of the vncleane spirit that there be no feare of the venemous ferpent, and that the presence of the holy Spirit, will vouchfafe euery where to accompany vs, imploring thy mercy. Through our Lord lefus-Chrift, who liueth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost one God world without end. R. Amen. 必 nanter afpicias, benignus illuftres, pietatis tuæ rore fanctifices: vt vbicumque fuerit afperfa, per invocationem faniti nominis tui,omnis infeftatio immundi fpiritus abigatur: terrorque venenofi ferpetis procul pellatur: & præfentia Sancti Spiritus nobis mifericordiam tuam pofcentibus,ubique adeffe dignetur. Per Dominu noftrum Iefum Chriftum Filium tuữ qui tecum viuit & regnat in unitate Spiritus fanéti Deus,per omnia fæcula fæcularum. B. Amen. The Benediction being ended, the Priest who is to celebrat Maffe, putting on his Coape again, kneeling at the foote of the Altar, accompanyed with his Minifters, and fprinkling it thrice with Holy water, he fprinkles himselfe, and arifing bef prinkles them, intoning these first words of the Antiphon, taken out of the so. Pfalm. Thou shalt sprinkle me and then the quire fings the reft: 0 Lord with Hyffop and I fhall be cleansed, thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter then Snow, He fprinkles the Clergy & people faying with a low voice the so.Pfalm, begging of the holy Trinity by this penitentiall Pfalm, both that he may worthily celebrate this adorable facrifice, and that others of the faithfull may participate thereof, as they were purifyed firft in Baptifm, by water & the Holy Gheft, and now, that he wil please to grant them a second time repentance in tears, & acknowledgment of their fins, that preferuing them from alltemptations of the dinell, they may be acceptable to the diuine Maiefty, & freed from the corrup tion of fin, as water cleanfesh the body, and as Salt giues a fanory taft to meat and preferus it from corruption. M mei Iferere cordiam tuam. me. Quoniam iniquita. tem mea ego cognof co: & peccatum meu contra me eft femper. Tibi foli peccaui ̧ To thee onely haue I & malum coram te finned, and haue done feci: ut juftificeris in euill before thee, that fermonibus tuis, & thou mayeft be iuftivincas cũ judicaris. fied in thy words, and mayeft ouercome when thou art iudged. Because I doe know my iniquity, and my fin is before me allwayes. Thou shalt fprinkle me with Ifope, and I fhall bee cleansed thou shalt wash me, and I fhall be made whiter then fnow. To my hearing thou shalt giue ioy and glad neffe and the bones humbled shall reioyce. Turne away thy face from my fins, and wipe my iniquities. away all Create a clean heart in mee, O God, and renew a right fpiritt in my bowells. Caft me not away from Ecce enim in ini quitatibus conceptus fum:& in peccatis concepit me mater mea. Ecce enim veritatem dilexifti: incerta, & occulta fapientiæ tue manifeftafti mi hi. Afperges me hyffopo & mundabor: lavavabis me,& fuper nivem dealbabor. Auditui meo dabis gaudium & lætitia: & exultabunt offa humiliata. Averte faciem tuă à peccatis meis: & amnes iniquitates meas dele Cor mundum crea in me Deus : & fpiritum rectum innova in vifceribus meis. Ne projicias me à facie tud:& fpiritum thy face, and thy holy fanctum tuum ne au- fpiritt take not from feras à me. - mee. Redde mihi lætitia Render vnto me the falutaris tui: & fpiritu principali confir ma me. Docebo iniquos vias tuas: & impii ad te conuertentur. Libera me de fan guinibus, Deus,Deus aperies:& os meum ioy of thy faluation, and confirm me with thy principall spirit. I will teach the uniuft thy waies, and the impious shall be conuerted vnto thee. Deliuer me from Bloods, o God the God of my faluation, and my tongue shall exalt thy Iuftice. Lord thou wilt open my lips, and my mouth annunciabit laudem shall shew forth thy tuam. Quoniam fi voluif fes facrificium, dediffem utique : holocaufis non delectaberis, Sacrificium Deo fpi praise. Because if thou wouldeft haue had facrifice, I had verily giuen it, with holocaufts thou wilt not bee delighted. A Sacrifice to God is ritus contribulatus: an afflicted fpiritt cor contritum, & humiliatum Deus non defpicies. a contrite an huble heart, o God, thou wilt not defpife.. THE BENEDICTION OF THE PALME S. After fprinkling Holy-water in the ufuall manner, the Priest accompanied with his ministers in their ornaments goes to bleffe 'the Palmes. 1: * 4 ancient, for it is not onely in the This ceremony is very Romane Inftitute, & in the booke of the diuin Offices which Alcuinus compofed in the Ninth age and in faint Adelmus his treatife of virginity in the eighr age, but alfo S. Maximus Bishop of Turin in the fifth age, preaching vpon this fubiect which you may read in S. Ambrofe tels vsit was an ancient couftome in the Church to teach vs that it was in memory of Christs triumphant entry into Hierufalem which was a figure of his glorious Afcenfion to heauen, hauing vanquished the diuell and therefore the Church beginsthis ceremony with the Canticle which the Hebrew childeren fvng on this day in honour of our Saviour, where wee are to obferve that the Priest reads it with a low voice, without making the figne of the Croffe, to mind vs that this action preceded the Paffion of our Lord Iefus-Chrift. |