the fire; Who, by di-ver-fi-ty of

many tongues, the nations un-to the

U-ni-ty of Faith didst con-gre-gate.

Al-le-lu-ya, Al-le-lu-ya, Al-le-lu-ya. V. Send forth Thy Spirit, and they Rr. And Thou shalt renew the face of

shall be created.

the Earth. Alleluya, Alleluya.

Orifon.

Orifon.

E favourable, O Lord, we beseech Thee, to us thy fervants for the glorious merits of thy Saints whose Relics are contained in this Church; that by their pious interceffions we may be ever protected from all adversities, through Christ our Lord. Amen.

At MATINS. Orifon. GRANT, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that the merits of thy Saints, whose Relics are contained in this Church, may protect us; so that through their prayers, in peace and tranquillity we may continually be joyful in thy praises, 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.

OD, who didst teach the hearts
of thy faithful people by the ( MEMORIAL OF PEACE, at LAUDS
enlightening of Thy Holy
Spirit; grant us by The Same

Spirit to have a right judgement in all
things, and ever to rejoice in his holy con-
folation, through our Lord Jesus Chrift
Thy Son, Who with Thee liveth and
reigneth in the Unity of The Same Spirit,
God, world without end. Amen.

[Then a MEMORIAL OF THE SAINT in whose honour the Church is founded, as in Prebendal and Parish Churches ; and then OF RELICS.]

Antiphon.

HE bodies of the Saints are

buried in peace, and their

names shall live for ever.

V. Blessed are they who

dwell in thy House, O Lord.

B. They shall praise Thee for ever and ever.

and VESPERS. Antiphon.

IVE Peace in our days, O
Lord! because there is none
other that fighteth for us, ex-
cept Thou, our God.

V. O Lord, let there be Peace in thy
strength.
B. And abundance in thy towers.
Let us pray.

GOD, of Whom are all holy
defires, all right counsels, and
all just works: give unto thy
servants that Peace which the

world cannot give; that both our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments; and we being freed from the fear of our enemies, may pass our time in quietness under thy protection, 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.

Another Orifon, at MATINS only.

OGOD, the Author and Lover of Peace,

Whom to know is to live, Whom to serve is to reign, protect thy suppliants from all affaults; that we, who trust in thy defence, may not fear the arms of any adversary, through our Lord Jesus Chrift Thy Son, Who with Thee liveth and reigneth in the Unity of The Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.

The Lord be with you.
And with thy spirit.
Bless we The Lord.
Thanks be to God..

TUESDAY

AT MATINS.

Invitatory.

ET us rejoice in God our

Sal-va-tion.

PSALM.

Venite exultemus.

O COME, let us be joyful.

NOTE. On Commemorations.

and

Commemoration, in the English Breviaries, has a different meaning from the fame word in the Roman books. In the Roman Breviary it means,-1, A peculiar Antiphon to "Benedictus" and "Magnificat;" 2, A Verficle; 3, and a proper Prayer, which are inserted after the ordinary Petitions at Lauds and Vespers. This, however, in the English Breviaries is called a Memorial (fee ante Note to Monday at Lauds; Sunday and Monday at Vespers). A Commemoration, in the English Books, is sometimes almost the same as a Feaft; as the Commemoration of S. Paul, on the 30th of June, and that of All Souls', on the 4th of November. It generally, however, fignifies the full Office for the Day, somewhat changed from the Annual Office, and abbreviated, and yet remaining complete, recurring for several fuccessive weeks-as, for instance, the Saturday Commemoration of the Blessed Mary, which was the principal of our Commemorations; and if not made on the Saturday, might be made on, and was frequently transferred ansferred to, some other day. It seems probable, however, that these Commemorations were prescribed to be used without the Choir only; i. e., privately. But in the Choir, even in Parish Churches, another Commemoration used to be added-namely, of the Feast of the Place (as we learn from the Rubric, "Secundum eft," &c., placed in the Breviary at the end of the first week in Advent), where we are told how the Office is to be changed to become commemorative; and these rwo Commemorations alone (as we learn expressly from the Hereford, and impliedly from the Sarum Rubrics) were used out of Cathedral Churches.

In Cathedral Churches, however, there seems to have been a third (as we learn from the York and Hereford Rubrics, and the Sarum Pica or Pie), nearly resembling the second kind. The York Commemorations were, besides of the Blessed Mary on Saturday, of S. Wilhelm Archbishop and Martyr, on Tuesday; S. Peter and S. Paul (to whom York Cathedral was dedicated), on Thursday; unless some other days were more convenient for fuch Commemoration. Those of Hereford were of S. Thomas Bishop and Confeffor, and S. Ethelbert King and Martyr; the former probably on Tuesday; the latter on Thursday.

The local Feast of the Church of Salisbury was that of the Translation of S. Ofmund, who was its fecond Bishop in the eleventh century; and was made Synodal or Diocesan in the fifteenth. It was continued throughout an Otave; and as it seems to answer to those of S. Wilhelm at York, and S. Thomas at Hereford, it was probably appropriate to the Tuesday, unless some other day was more convenient. It had aljo appropriate and peculiar Antiphons to "Benedictus" and "Magnificat;" an Orifon and proper Lessons ; and was first in order of the three Commemorations used in the Church of Sarum. The only other two were (corresponding with those of the Apostles at York, and S. Ethelbert at Hereford) of S. Thomas of Canterbury, and of S. Chad of Lichfield, of which S. Thomas was probably the third. So that the order of the Sarum Commemorations was this :- If three days were vacant in the week, they were of the Blessed Virgin, 8. Ofmund, and S. Thomas; if only two, of the B. V., with S. Ofmund; if only one, of the B. V. only.

Commemorations were not used in the third week in Advent, nor in the Vigil of our Lord's Nativity to the Octave of The Epiphany, nor from Ash-Wednesday to Low Sunday, nor from the Fifth Sunday after Eafter to the Octave of The Afcenfion of our Lord, nor throughout the Octave of Pentecoft, nor in other Feasts or Olaves, when the Choir had Conductors (which was the cafe only in the more folemn offices); nor in the Feafts of the Saints which had their proper Refponfories and Praises; nor in the other Vigils; nor in the Fafts of the Four Times. In York Province, before 1478, they (except that of the B. V. M.) had been excluded from the whole of Advent, Septuagefima, and the Easter Seafon.

From the First Sunday after the Octave of The Epiphany to Quadragefima, whenever it is the ordinary Tuesday Service, is faid, AT MATINS, the following Hymn.