reignest God, world without end. Amen.
(The Preceding Prayer is omitted in Masses for the Dead.)
At Solemn Mass the deacon kisses the altar at the same time with the celebrating priest, by whom he is saluted with the kiss of peace with these words:
V. Pax tecum. V. Peace be with thee.
To which the deacon answers:
R. Et cum spiritu tuo. R. And with thy spirit.
And then salutes in like manner the subdeacon, who in turn salutes the clergy who may be present.
O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, Who, by the will of the Father and the co-opertion of the Holy Ghost, hast by Thy death given life to the world: deliver me by this Thy most sacred body and blood from all my iniquities and from all evils; and make me always adhere to Thy commandments, and suffer me never to be separated from Thee. Who with the same God the Father and the Holy Ghost livest and reignest God, world without end. Amen.
