E SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

102 CONSECRATION OF THE BREAD.
I. CONSECRATION OF THE BREAD.
INTRODUCTION TO THE CONSECRATION.
Qui pridie quam pateretur, Who the day before He
accepit. panem in sanctas ac suffered, (he takes the Host)
venerabiles inarms suas : et took bread into His holy and
elevatis oculis in coelum ad te venerable hands (he raises his
Deum Patrem suum omnipo- eyes to heaven), and with His
tentem,tibigratiasagens,bene- eyes lifted up towards heaven,
4- dixit, fregit, deditque disci- to Thee, God, His Almighty
pulis suis, dicens : Accipite, Father, giving thanks to Thee,
et manducate ex hoc omnes. did bless, ^ break, and give
Hoc EST ENIM CORPUS to His disciples, saying : Take
MEUM. and eat ye all of this ;
FOR THIS is MY BODY.
EXPLANATION OF THE INTRODUCTION TO THE
CONSECRATION OF BREAD.
Who the day before He suffered (the Priest
takes the Host) took bread into His holy and
venerable hands (he raises his eyes to heaven)
and with His eyes lifted up towards heaven, to
Thee, God, His Almighty Father, giving thanks
to Thee, did bless, ^ break, and give to His
disciples, saying.
The words: into His holy and venerable hands
and with His eyes lifted up towards heaven, to
Thee, God, His Almighty Father, are not found
in the Scriptural Narrative: Matthew xxvi. 26 28:
Mark xiv. 22 24 : Luke xxii. 19, 20 and i Cor. xi.
23 26, but come to us through the tradition of the
Church.