Author: William Paret

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9781230431819

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. About Reading; Continued. There is a break in the order where, after the prayer for the President, certain prayers shall be omitted when the Litany is said, and may be omitted when the Holy Communion is immediately to follow. So far as it relates to the Holy Communion it is a new usage, and neither clergy nor people seem fully to understand it. When we stop at that point to begin the Litany, the custom is universal not to put in " the grace of our Lord," but either with or without a hymn, to pass at once to the first sentence of the Litany. But I find that when, instead of the Litany, the Order for Holy Communion is then to be taken up, most clergymen mark the pause by saying, "The grace of our Lord," etc. It is wrong. That is one of the prayers which the rubric directs us there to omit. And there is no reason why the same method should not be followed both for Litany and Holy Communion. If at first it seems awkward because your people are not expecting it, by the third or fourth time they will have learned it. And do not put in there your own "Amen." The printing plainly shows that it is for the people alone. A little more about the "Amen." There is a rule to govern its use. When it is printed in the same type with the prayer, it is to be said by those, and those only, who say the prayer, whether it be minister only, or minister and people together. When printed in different type, it is a response. So, in the Confession, the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, etc., the printing shows that the "Amen" is to be said by all; after the Absolution and after all ordinary prayers, by the people only; after the Gloria Patri, when used responsively, by the people only; after the sentence of Baptism and the reception with the Sign of the...