Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Ritualism in its relation to Iie-icnion. 285
Blessed Paul,
" We
have no such custom,
neither the Churches of GOD."
How then can it be that such men as Henry
of Exeter, and Samuel of Oxford can profess
to forbid the usage of the Mixed Chalice in
their dioceses, because it
is, as they say, un
authorized by the / Church of England c_?
; that
means, really, reducing statements to their
essential elements, by the province of Canter
bury ?
Whenever I think or read of these things, I
am simply filled with wonder and astonishment.
" Can I have made some error or
I ask myself,
mistake in ?" my reasoning and
I go through
the mental process again and again : and finding
none, I sigh and am silent.
I have dwelt at considerable length upon the
question of the Mixed Chalice, because the
arguments in favour of its being a Catholic
usage are so very clear, convincing and un
answerable. But there are after all many other
important Catholic usages for which there is
quite sufficient ground of proof to all reasonable
minds, and about wrhich
learned men do agree:
as for instance, Fasting Communicating. It is no
more a Western usage than an Eastern, and no
more an Eastern than a Western one ; it is
simply a Catholic practice, and for which there
is about as much of the quod semper, c., as
there is for Infant Baptism. The Western