Consecration; otherwise the prayers for the Church ended, the priest, standing facing the people, says the exhortation, "Ye who do truly," etc., and then kneels down upon both knees, upon the foot-pace, and says the General Confession. The Confession ended, the priest stands up, turns to the people, and says the Absolution, and the Comfortable Words. Then the priest, extending and raising his hands, says, "Lift up your hearts"; and then, immediately after the response, joins his hands, saying "Let us give thanks unto our Lord God." Then the priest, having turned back to the altar, (completing the circle), again extends and raises his hands and proceeds to say the Preface and Sanctus. The Sanctus ended, standing erect the priest says (aloud, if the Bishop permit, otherwise privately) "Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest," signing himself from forehead to breast. Then kneeling upon the foot-pace, and having his hands joined, the priest says the prayer of Humble Access, "We do not presume," etc.
The Canon
Having said the prayer of Humble Access, the priest rises, and, having his hands raised and extended, proceeds to say the Prayer of Consecration in a low but clear and audible voice. After the words, "until his coming again," if a ciborium be in use, and the priest has not moved it before beginning the said prayer, he now uncovers it and moves it forward on the corporal at the right of the chalice. Then, as he utters the words, "he took bread," he takes up, with both hands, the paten, raises it a little above the altar-mensa, and at once replaces it upon the corporal. Then he takes the priest's-bread between the thumb and forefinger of his left hand, holds it upright a little above the paten, raises his eyes heavenward and at once lowers them, bows his head, and, as he says the words, "and when he had given thanks," he makes the sign of the cross over the bread with his right hand. As he says the words, "he brake it," the priest holds the larger bread between the thumb and forefinger of each hand, upright, and raised a little above the paten, and makes a small fracture in the lower part of it. Then bowing his head, he says, "and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take, eat," and extends the other fingers of his hands over the
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