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THE ORDINARY OF THE MASS.
priest upbraids his own soul : Why
art thou
sorrowful, O my soul, and why dost thou disquiet
me ? The server still continues : Hope in God, for
I will still give praise to Him, that is, confess all
He has done for me and praise Him. The salvation
of my countenance, that is, He is my salvation, for
He illumines my countenance by His light
my face to behold His ; and
and makes
Thou art my God ; in
this thought there is hope.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and
to the Holy Ghost. These words are taken from
our Lord s words in the last chapter of St. Matthew,
and are thought to have been framed by the Apostles.
They, with the addition, as it was in the begin
ning, &c., form what is called the lesser doxology, the
Gloria in excelsis being the greater. We pray that
all praise and honour be given to the Godhead, one
in nature, three in persons; and the second portion,
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever
shall be, world without end ; Amen, is ascribed to
the Council of Nice, A.D. 325, or perhaps later, as a
contradiction to the doctrines of Arius, who maintained
that the Son was not in the beginning, nor equal to
the Father. (Rock s Hierurgia, vol. i. p. 75.)
The priest repeats again : I will go unto the
altar of God, and the server, to God who giveth
of the
joy to my youth ; and then he makes the sign
Cross and confides himself to the Divine protection,
and with the words, Our help is in the name of
the Lord, the server answering : who hath made
heaven and earth, joins his hands, and bowing low,
says the Confiteov.
As one end of Sacrifice is the remission of sins,
the confession of sin and the prayer for pardon are