he leaves the altar to go to the credence, or elsewhere, and on his return to it, the server makes the due act of reverence, viz. bowing towards the altar (in the midst), or genuflecting (in the same place) if the Blessed Sacrament be thereon or in the tabernacle. When the priest says "The Lord be with you," the server responds "And with thy spirit;" and when the priest makes the sign of the cross at the announcement of the Gospel, the server signs himself in like manner, and then makes the response, "Glory be to thee, O Lord." Then he goes down the steps at the Gospel-corner, and along the floor to the Epistle-side where he stands facing towards the priest. The reading of the Gospel finished, the server makes response, "Praise be to thee, O Christ." Then he faces toward the altar, and joins with the priest in saying the Creed. After the Creed has been said, or, if it is not said, then at once after the Gospel, the server goes to the credence and brings to the priest at the Epistle-corner the box of altar-breads, which, as he stands before the priest on the step next below the foot-pace, he holds in his left hand, and removes the cover with his right hand. After the priest has taken the breads, the server, recovers the box, carries it to the credence, removes the stoppers from the cruets, takes up the wine cruet in his right hand and the water cruet in his left hand, and goes to the Epistle-corner. Kissing the wine cruet, the server then presents it to the priest. Putting the water cruet in his right hand, the server then receives the wine cruet with his left hand, and presents the water-cruet as he presented the wine.
If the people make offerings, the server brings them in the "decent basin," to the priest as he stands awaiting them on the Epistle-side of the altar, and then (after they have been presented) takes the basin (when the priest hands it to him) and puts it down on the credence. Then placing the lavabo-towel on his left arm and holding the bowl with his left hand, and the water cruet in his right, the server goes to the Epistle-corner and pours water, over the priest's finger-tips, into the bowl. That done, he returns to the credence, puts down cruet, bowl and towel, puts the stoppers in the cruets, and returns to his place opposite the Epistle-side of the altar, and kneels upon the step. He makes all
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