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<strong>The</strong> ANCIENT GALLICAN Missal: 466 "As we do now show forth<br />

the verity of this heavenly Sacrament, so may we cleave unto the verity<br />

itself of our Lord's body <strong>and</strong> blood." <strong>The</strong> MOZARABIC: 467 "Hail,<br />

sacred flesh! forever, highest sweetness. I will take the bread of heaven, <strong>and</strong><br />

call on the name of the Lord...Having our strength renewed by Christ's<br />

body <strong>and</strong> blood, <strong>and</strong> being sanctified by the same, we will render thanks<br />

unto God." <strong>The</strong> AMBROSIAN: 468 "What we have taken with the mouth,<br />

O Lord, may we receive with pure mind; that of the body <strong>and</strong> blood of our<br />

Lord...we may have perpetual healing." Through the whole of the worship<br />

of the Christian ages runs the confession that it is the undivided person of<br />

Christ to which the heart of the Church turns: a Christ who is everywhere<br />

God, everywhere man; a Christ in whom dwells the fulness of the<br />

Godhead bodily; a Christ who has passed through all the heavens, <strong>and</strong><br />

ascended up far above them all, that he might fill all things.<br />

With these breathings compare the private prayers of the old saints<br />

which have been left on record--the prayers of Ambrose, Basil,<br />

Chrysostom, Damascenus, <strong>and</strong> Aquinas,--which show how lowly, how<br />

tender, how trusting is the spirit inspired by a healthful recognition of the<br />

great abiding mystery of the New Dispensation.<br />

Jesu pie quem nunc velatum adspicio,<br />

Qu<strong>and</strong>o fiet illud, quod jam sitio,<br />

Ut te revelata cernens facie<br />

Visu sim beatus tuae gloriae? 469<br />

466 Martene: De Antiq. Eccles. Ritibus. Ed. Noviss. Venitiis. 1783. 4 vols. Fol. I. 166.<br />

467 Do. 171.<br />

468 Do. 175. Martene gives about forty orders of service, all having the common element of a complete recognition<br />

of the sacramental mystery.<br />

469 [O holy Jesus, whom veiled I now behold, when shall that be for which I thirst, when, beholding <strong>The</strong>e with open<br />

face, I shall be blessed in the sight of Thy glory?] <strong>The</strong> Hymn of Aquinas: Adoro te.

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