bread, the glorious body of our Lord Jesus Christ, the heavenly body; the life-giving body; the precious body; for the expiation of faults, and the remission of sins, and eternal life, to those who receive it. Amen.--And this chalice, the precious blood of Jesus Christ, the Lord God, who has dominion over all things; the redeeming blood; the life-giving blood; the expiating blood; which was poured forth, for the redemption and life of the world; for the expiation of faults, and the remission of sins, and eternal life to those who receive it.” P. 554.-“ O Holy of Holies ! O Lord God of armies! we offer to Thee this venerable and unbloody sacrifice, for the holy Churches which exist from one end of the earth to the other." P. 555.
LITURGY OF THE NESTORIANS.[1] - “ O Lord, our God, by thy inexpressible grace, sanctify this sacrifice.” Renaudot, T. ii. p. 587.-“ Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, pray for me to thy only Son—that he would vouchsafe to forgive me my offences and sins, and receive this sacrifice from my weak and sinful hands, &c.”-p. 588.—Then dipping one part of the host into the chalice, and, with it, signing the other part, he says: “ The precious blood is signed with the holy body of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the name of the Father, &c.”—And the holy body is signed with the propitiatory blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the name of the Father, &c.-p.594.-"Christ our God, Lord, King, Saviour and Giver of life, has graciously made us worthy to receive his body and his precious and sanctifying blood, &c.” p. 596. -“We confess, O Lord, and our God, the abundant riches of thy grace upon us; although sinners, and of low condition, thou hast made us, through thy manifold clemency, worthy to administer the holy mysteries of the body and blood of thy Christ." p. 598.
- ↑ Called also the Liturgy of the Apostles. It is the ancient Liturgy of the Churches of Syria, before Nestorius; and though used by the Nestorians, as is also the following Liturgy of Theodorus, neither of them express the error of Nestorius.
