E SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

THE ABLUTIONS. 137
THE ABLUTIONS.
The ablutions are the wine and water poured into
the chalice by command of the Church out of reverence
to the Eucharist, so as to secure the priest receiving
any portion of the Sacred Host or any drop of the
Precious Blood which may have clung to the chalice.
While the wine is being poured into the chalice the
priest says the following prayer :
Quod ore sumpsimus, Do- Grant, Lord, that what we
mine, pura mente capiamus : have taken with our mouth,
et de munere temporali fiat we may receive with a pure
nobis remedium sempiternum. mind and of ; a gift in time
may it become unto us an
eternal remedy.
At Holy Communion we eat and drink the Body
" and Blood of Jesus Christ. The Eucharist is called a
temporal gift
"
both as a Sacrifice and as a Sacrament.
The Sacrifice is offered on earth : the Eucharist as a
Sacrament, that is, our Lord under the appearance
of bread and wine, does not exist in Heaven, only on
earth hence temporal. Nevertheless it is an eternal
remedy, because it preserves us from evil and gains for
us eternal life.
Wine and water are next poured
and the priest says :
into the chalice
Corpus tuum, Domine, quod May Thy Body, O Lord,
sumpsi, et Sanguis, quern which I have received, and
potavi, adhaereat visceribus Thy Blood which I have drunk,
meis : et praesta, ut in me non cleave to my heart, and grant
remaneat scelerum macula, that no stain of sin may
quern pura et sancta refece- remain in me, who have been
runt sacramenta. Qui vivis et refreshed with pure and holy
regnas in saecula saeculorum. sacraments. Who livest, etc.
Amen. Amen.