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THE SAXON HOUSEL.
out St. Gregory's words: " You shall be no longer
Angli but Angeli". A barrister has no right to briefs
till he is called to the bar: neither may a priest use
the awful power given to him by Holy Orders until
authorised. The Pallium confirmed the primate in
his authority, and was an earnest to him of his right
to "call" others. This was expressed by Pope Boniface
V. to Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 624 :
" Moved by kindness, we have addressed by these
presents the Pallium to your fraternity,
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the use of
which we have conceded * to you only in celebrating
the sacred mysteries, granting to you further the
ordination of bishops in the mercy of the Lord when
it is required. Let your fraternity, then, try to keep
with sincerity that which you have received from the
goodness of the Apostolic See." 1
First of all, the Angles had received the " sacred
mysteries," which act of worship Bede faithfully
records of Augustine and his companions at St.
Martin's. The very name used by our forefathers
to denote the Blessed Sacrament was full of meaning.
They called it the Housel, which is derived
from the Greek Ova la, a sacrifice. " Before their
conversion they used the word hush to denote a
victim of sacrifice, and after their conversion transferred
it to the Christian sacrifice of the Mass."'2
Holy Communion was administered to the faithful
under both kinds during all the Saxon period, but
1 Hi4. Ecclts.) lib. ii. cap. viii.
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