May our give us peace.
words of

i.e.-Sundays and the greater feafts (except Eafter-tide, i.e. from Eafter Day, inclufive, to Trinity Sunday exclufive).

Pi. e. In Eafter-tide, the leffer feafts, and week days.

6. May the constancy of the Martyrs ( Other Benedictions of S. Mary, within

* Corp. Jur. Canon. Vol. I. 484, Paris, 1687; Canon. Concilii Gerundin. 517.

( COMMON FORMS.

Hierome: In the beginning of every work premise The Lord's Prayer and

the fign of the Cross upon your fore-☑ IN THE NAME OF THE

head, according as it is written, "Before prayer make ready thy foul for The Lord, lest thou be as one

that tempteth God."

FATHER, THE SON, AND THE
HOLY GHOST.

[With the fign of the Cross.]

THE LORD'S PRAYER.

Short and appropriate prayer before the [Before and after all the Hours (Secretly),

Hours.

LORD, open my mouth to bless Thy
Name. Purify also my heart from

all vain thoughts, that I may be worthy
to be heard before the face of Thy Divine
Majesty, through Our Lord Jesus Christ,
Thy Son, who with Thee liveth and
reigneth in the Unity of The Holy Ghost,
God, world without end. Amen."

* Brev. ad Us. Sar. Chevallon, Paris: 1531.

standing.]

UR Father which art in
Heaven; Hallowed be Thy
Name: Thy kingdom come:
Thy will be done, as in

Heaven, so on earth. Give us this day
our daily bread: And forgive us our debts
as we forgive our debtors: And lead us not
into temptation: But deliver us from evil."

“And when ye come to the Church, before the beginning of each Hour, ye fay a 'Pater Noster' and an 'Ave Maria, kneeling, and that is to ftir your hearts to more devotion, ere you begin your service. And therefore it is faid in filence, shewing that God is more pleased with the privy devotion of the heart, whereto ye ought principally to intend in all your fervice, than with the outward noise with the voice. And in this Pater Nofter are feven petitions for to get seven gifts from The Holy Ghost, and feven virtues whereby we may be delivered from the seven deadly fins, and so come to the seven blessfednesses." - Myrroure, xxxvi.

"The ordinance and common use of Holy Church, in fome places, is to say a 'Pater Noster' at the end of each Hour, as at the beginning." - Myrroure, lxxiv. lxxxi.

" It is to be noted that every day in the year, whatever be the service: in the beginning of Matins, Compline, and the other Hours, is faid ‘Our Father' and 'Hail Mary, by the whole choir, Jecretly, standing."-MSS. Brev, ad ufum Sarum, Harleian MSS., Cent. xiv., 1512. 2785. ad Dom. Primam Adv. Arundel MSS., 130. Arlyngham MSS.

"It would feem according to the Salisbury Ufe, that generally, at least, before the repetition of "And lead us not, &c.," the whole prayer was faid filently with "Amen.' For in the Petitions at Compline, (at least in the Pfalter,) the Angelic Salutation, and before the Lessons in the first Nocturn in most of the books, the Apostles Creed, in fome Ave Maria," "Hail Mary," is interpofed between "Our Father, "," and "And lead us

not."

in The

So alfo in the Vespers of the Dead, at least in the Breviary, (for it is omitted in the Manual,) after "Our Father," and " Hail," &c., is a diftin&t direction that “ And lead us not" is not to be added. The Jame direction is given in the Hereford Breviary, in The Commendation of Souls, to repeat "And lead us not," &c. The fame also appears from some editions of the Hours, (Gough MSS., 105, 1557, p. 39,) before the first Leffon in the Matins of the Bleffed Mary, where the use is fully fet forth. So alfo from The Myrroure afterwards quoted. This conftruction is also more consonant to the directions contained in feveral of the Offices. Thus in the Sarum Manual: "Then let 'Our Father, be said without pronouncing, 'And lead us not, let the Pfalm follow." In the Vigils of the Dead, ibid. 'Our Father, then without pronouncing And lead us not, let the Pfalm be Said without note." the Office of The Day of Preparation, in the Breviary, 'Our Father,' and 'And lead us not' is not faid. In the Office for Ash Wednesday in the Manual and Proceffional Our Father, and let

Commendation

of Souls

In

and fay, say. "And lead are Said faid without

all this be said without note, then let the Priest raise himself up us," &c. In the Orifons at Mass in the Miffal, Our Father, and all these things note; then let the Priest say with note, 'And lead us, &c. In the Sunday Orifons in the beginning of the Proceffional, "let then follow" "Our Father: then let the Priest say aloud, but without note, And lead us not, and 'But deliver. See also the Petitions at Compline, where

THE ANGELIC SALUTATION.
[Secretly.]

AIL Mary! Full of grace,
The Lord is with thee.
art thou among
women; and blessed is the

fruit of thy womb! Jesus! Amen.v

[Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us finners, now, and in the hour of death!]"

[It is to be noted that in the Sarum Ufe, Our Father, and Hail Mary, is never begun aloud by the Priest, at any service, except at the Mass only; when the whole is faid or fung aloud. The Priest concludes by repeating aloud,

And lead us not into temptation,

The Choir answering,

But deliver us from evil. Amen.]*

in Jefus Chrift, His Only Son, our Lord: who was conceived by The Holy Ghoft, born of the Virgin Mary, fuffered under Pontius Pilate, crucified,

dead and buried: He descended into hell:

the third day He rose again from the dead : He afcended to the heavens: He fitteth at the right hand of God, The Father Almighty: whence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in The Holy Ghost; the Holy Catholic Church; the Communion of Saints, the Remission of Sins, the Refurrection of the Flesh, and Life eternal. Amen.

a fimilar direction is given. So in the York Breviary, in the Proper of the Time for Advent, "Our Father," and the Lord's Prayer having been faid by each fecretly, let the Priest fay, "And lead us, &c." And so the Primer of 1545, in the Litany, "Our Father," with the refidue of the "Pater Noster," and then, "And lead us, &c." The above authorities render it most probable that the last two clauses of the Lord's Prayer were repeated, whether "Ave Maria" or "Credo" were interpofed or no. It may be here observed that this infertion of the "Ave Maria" and "Credo" was probably of late origin, as it is not to be discovered in feveral MSS. Breviaries of the 14th century which have been confulted.

It is to be noted that the fame arguments apply to the last clauses of the Apostles Creed, which appear to have been pronounced twice in like manner. (See the Office for Prime.)

* "This Anthem is faid at the end of every Hour, as well as at the beginning." Myrroure, lxxiv. “And therefore after your Pater Noster and Ave Maria, which ye say in filence, for to gather more reftfully your mind together, ye say again two Petitions of your Pater Nofter all aloud, that is, Et ne nos, Sed libera nos, asking to be delivered from the malice of the fiend, that he overcome not by any temptation." Myrroure, lii. b. From this it appears that in Syon Monastery the usage was to interpose "Ave Maria," before the repetition of the two laft clauses of the Lord's Prayer.

"Then after these prayers, (fcil. Pater Nofter' and 'Ave,') ye arife and turn you to the altar, and incline: in token that ye intend to say that holy service to the only worship and praifing of Our Lord and of His glorious Mother, Our Lady. And then ye bless you with the fign of the Holy Cross, to chase away the fiend with all his deceits; for as Chryfoftom faith, (fup. Matth. Hom. iv.) 'whenever the fiends see the fign of the Cross they fly away, dreading it as a staff that they are beaten withal. And in this bleffing ye begin with your hand at the head, downward, and then to the left fide, and after to the right fide: in token and belief our Lord Jesus Chrift came down from the Head, that is from The Father unto earth, by His Holy Incarnation, and from the earth unto the left fide, that is Hell, by His bitter Paffion, and from thence unto His Father's right fide, by His glorious Ascension. And after this ye bring your hand to your brefte, in token that ye are come to thank Him and praise Him in the inmost of your heart for his benefits." - Myrroure, fo. xxxvi. Myrroure, fo. xl. b.

From "Brev. ad Us. Sar. Chevallon, Paris. 1531;" it is not to be found in the other editions. * From the Rubric for the first Sunday in Advent.

INVITATORIES.

IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS

↑ In the First Sunday after the Octave of The Epiphany in the Sunday Office, up to Sexagefima.

Let us

of The Lord,

CHRIST, AND OF THE MOST
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, AND OF THE
BLESSED S. THOMAS MARTYR, AND
OF ALL THE TRIUMPHANT COURT OF
HEAVEN. THE ORDER OF THE PSAL-
TER, ACCORDING TO THE MANNER
AND CUSTOM OF THE CHURCH OF
SARUM, HAPPILY BEGINNETH. AND
FIRST, THE UNDERWRITTEN INVITA- pfalms rejoice

TORIES ARE SAID ON SUNDAYS
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR RESPECTIVE-

LY, UNLESS OTHERWISE SIGNIFIED, Ps. O

FROM THE FIRST SUNDAY AFTER THE
OCTAVE OF THE EPIPHANY, THROUGH
THE INTERMEDIATE SUNDAYS, UP
TO THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD.Y

For the First Sunday in Advent, and on weekdays throughout Advent, up to the Vigil of The Nativity of The Lord exclufive, except on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday of The Four Times.

come.

and with

be-fore Him.

In The Holy Day of Easter.

Al-le -lu

day hath ri-fen,

Alleluya,

Al-leluya. Ps. O come.

↑ On Sunday in The Octave of Easter, and up to The Afcenfion.

Him. Ps. O come.