following the cross-bearer, go before the priest by the most direct way into the "midft of the quire," and there arrange themselves, facing east, in fuch wife that the priest is nearest the altar, behind him the two servers on their wrong fides (i. e. the first server on the north, the second on the fouth), and behind them the cross-bearer. Standing thus the Hymn or other Proceffional will be commenced, when the cross-bearer turning by the right and the fervers inwards, fo as to face each other in turning, they will start in proceffion, keeping about four feet behind the cross-bearer. The two fervers will now be in their proper pofition with respect to each other, viz. the first at the right hand of the second.

The fervers should be careful to observe the "Directions concerning the Proceffion" given above in Nos. 6 and 7.

327. On the return of the proceffion up the centre aisle the servers follow the cross-bearer through the quire into the vestry, where they will affist the celebrant in taking off his cope and in putting on a chasuble and maniple. The proceffional cross will not be wanted again.

328. When the celebrant is ready the fervers will precede him (walking fide by fide as before) to the step of the fanctuary, where they halt and face one another, allowing space for him to pass between them.

329. The first server being on the right hand, i. e. fouth of the priest, receives his biretta from him as he paffes, and carries it at once to the fedilia or other convenient place. The fecond ferver will enter the fanctuary immediately after the priest.

330. The two fervers will kneel down together, one on either fide of the celebrant on the step or level on which he is standing, and will say the Responses and Confeffion with him, as given p. 6, in a low tone just sufficiently loud to be audible to the priest; or if he prefers to say these all to himself the fervers may use the fame as private devotions.

When the priest afcends to the altar they may rise and go to kneel on the lowest step, still facing east, but as far apart from one another as the length of the altar. They will remain in this pofition till the end of the Epiftle and throughout the fervice, except when specially Idirected to be elsewhere.

331. The Epistle ended, if the Gospel is to follow immediately, the two servers will rife from their knees, and the first remains standing in his place while the fecond goes up to the altar, takes up the bookdesk with the open Miffal on it, and carries it over to the northern part of the altar, as does the ferver at Low Mass. Which done, he goes back to his place at the steps of the altar.

332. If, however, anything is fung as a Gradual, Sequence, &c., between the Epistle and Gospel the two fervers rife from their knees as foon as the Epiftle is ended and at once go towards each other. Having together bowed to the altar in the midft they will go round

to the fedilia, and standing on either fide of the celebrant will raise his chafuble as he fits down, arranging the vestment so that he does not fit upon it. The first server will then give the celebrant his biretta. While the celebrant fits, the two fervers remain one on either fide of him standing, and facing each other. Towards the end of the Gradual or Sequence the second m ferver goes to move the Miffal, while the first receives the celebrant's biretta, which he puts down where it was before, and then goes at once to his place at the steps of the altar.

333. If the celebrant remains standing at the altar during the Gradual or Sequence the fervers will remain kneeling, as they were during the Epistle.

334. During the Gospel the fervers will stand in the fame place in which they had been kneeling, but will turn flightly, fo as to look towards the priest reading. They may fign themselves on forehead and breast at the giving out of the Gospel.

335. The Gospel ended, the fervers will at once kneel down as before, and remain kneeling throughout the Creed. They will bow their heads when the celebrant inclines. They will fign themselves at the beginning and, with the celebrant, at the end.

336. After the Creed the fervers will affift the celebrant as before (No. 332) to fit, and they may themselves fit during the fermon on ftools on the south side of the sanctuary, or at the east of the quire as directed in No. 36.

§2. From the Offertory to the end of the Service.

337. As the celebrant goes up to the altar to commence the offertory sentences, the servers will go to the credence. The first takes the box or plate with the breads, holding it in both hands, while the fecond takes the wine-cruet in his right hand, the water-cruet in his left. The two together go up to the fouth end of the footpace (on to it if it extends far beyond the end of the altar), and ftand there facing north, the second ferver being on the left hand of the first.

When the celebrant has received both the bread and wine (see No. 301), the two fervers turn round together, facing each other as they turn, and replace the box of breads and the wine-cruets on the credence.

338. The first ferver then takes up the napkin, the second takes the water-cruet in his right hand and the small dish in his left. Turning inwards again they go back to the end of the altar, where the second pours a few drops of water over the fingers of the celebrant into the small dish, and the first presents the napkin with both hands. When the celebrant has dried his fingers the two fervers return together as before to the credence, and replace the napkin, dish, and cruet.

m Baldeschi says the second, Merati the first.

• See No. 303, note y.

n See No. 158.

339. The first server remains near the credence facing north,p while the second takes the alms-bason, goes to the entrance of the chancel, and there receiving the bags in which the offertory has been collected, comes back to the right hand of the celebrant at the altar, gives him the bason, and retires to his place at the altar steps, where he at once kneels down.

340. If the priest says "Brethren and fifters pray for me," &c., the first server will make the response, "The grace of the Holy Ghost," &c. (p. 17), and to say it will kneel down where he happens to be at the time. He receives the alms-bafon from the priest at the fouth end of the altar, puts it down on or near the credence, and going to his place at the altar fteps kneels down.

341. One or other of the fervers will be appointed to ring the bell at the Sanctus three times, not violently. He will ring again three times at each Elevation, that is to say, the instant he sees the priest begin to incline after the confecration of the Hoft he will ring, and likewise after the confecration of the Chalice.

342. Remaining on their knees the fervers will bend forward in profound adoration of the holy Presence while the priest says his private prayers. Some priests may poffibly end two of thefe prayers audibly, faying, "World without end." If he does fo, the fervers will each time answer in a low voice together, "Amen." After the fecond Amen, the priest will go on to say, "The peace of the Lord be alway with you": when the servers anfwer, "And with thy fpirit."

343. In some places in France and Italy it is the custom to ring again at the communion of the priest, a custom which Le Vavasseur mentions without either blame or praife. In England it might be useful as a fignal to intending communicants to approach.

344. When the priest is ready to communicate the people, the fervers rife and, without meeting before the centre of the altar, go quietly round to any convenient places near the north and south walls of the fanctuary, so that the first server is near the credence-table on the south, while the second is oppofite to him on the other side of the chancel. They may either stand or kneel, but should both do the fame, and if they stand should genuflect towards the Bleffed Sacrament as foon as they arrive and before they leave.

When all have been communicated the fervers will return to their former position at the altar steps, and remain kneeling there till after the Bleffing.

345. The fervers will rife from their knees as the priest raises himfelf from the act of adoration he makes towards the Bleffed Sacrament immediately after he has given the Bleffing. They will go towards one another, and fide by fide before the midst of the altar will genuflect,

P This affumes that the credence is in its proper place on the fouth fide of the fanctuary. a See No. 303.

and then together go round to the credence. The first will take the wine-cruet, the second the water-cruet. Turning fo as to face one another in turning, they will go up together to the epiftle corner of the altar, where they will genuflect, and then remain standing till the priest comes for the ablutions, each holding the cruet in his right hand.

346. When the priest comes to the epiftle corner, the first server will pour a very little wine into the chalice which the priest holds out to him.

When the priest has drank the wine, the fecond ferver will pour a little water over the priest's fingers into the chalice, then fome more on to the paten, and into the ciborium if one has been used.

347. Turning together, fo as to face each other in turning, they take back the cruets to the credence. Both together they come round again to the front of the altar, the first server bringing the priest's biretta. Standing in the centre they bow together to the altar and separate, going to their proper places, where they remain facing east.

348. When the priest comes down the steps, having left the vessels and Miffal on the altar, he turns to bow to the altar, and the fervers will bow with him. The first server then gives him his biretta, and the two at once turn and lead the way to the facrifty, followed by the celebrant, who himself is followed by the choir in the order in which they entered.

349. The first server will affift the priest to unveft; the second will put out the candles. If more than two have been lighted, he will commence with that furtheft from the crofs on the gospel fide, and having extinguished all on that fide will commence on the epiftle fide likewise with that which is furtheft from the crofs.

350. The fervers may not remove the facred veffels from the altar, but when a priest or deacon has carried them to the sacrifty, the servers will remove the book-desk and Miffal, spread the covering on to the top of the altar, bring the cruets, &c. into the facrifty, and then, and not till then, will take off their albs (or furplices).

'ARTICLE III.

DIRECTIONS FOR THE PRIEST AT A MISSA CANTATA WITHOUT INCENSE.

§ 1. General Directions and until the Offertory.

351.

HE priest, having feen that the veffels are properly prepared and

THE

put on

duly placed on the altar, as directed in Nos. 251, 318, will over his caffock an amice, alb, girdle, ftole crossed on the breast and

r In the Roman rite the second server is at this point engaged in moving the Missal

to the south side, but at the Offertory, when not required for anything else, he ministers the water, hence the direction in the text.

339. The first server remains near the credence facing north,p while the second takes the alms-bafon, goes to the entrance of the chancel, and there receiving the bags in which the offertory has been collected, comes back to the right hand of the celebrant at the altar, gives him the bason, and retires to his place at the altar fteps, where he at once kneels down.

340. If the priest says "Brethren and fifters pray for me," &c., the first server will make the response, "The grace of the Holy Ghost," &c. (p. 17), and to fay it will kneel down where he happens to be at the time. He receives the alms-bason from the priest at the fouth end of the altar, puts it down on or near the credence, and going to his place at the altar fteps kneels down.

341. One or other of the fervers will be appointed to ring the bell at the Sanctus three times, not violently. He will ring again three times at each Elevation, that is to say, the instant he sees the priest begin to incline after the confecration of the Hoft he will ring, and likewise after the confecration of the Chalice.

342. Remaining on their knees the fervers will bend forward in profound adoration of the holy Prefence while the priest says his private prayers. Some priests may possibly end two of these prayers audibly, faying, "World without end." If he does fo, the fervers will each time answer in a low voice together, "Amen." After the second Amen, the priest will go on to say, "The peace of the Lord be alway with you": when the fervers anfwer, "And with thy fpirit."

343. In fome places in France and Italy it is the custom to ring again at the communion of the priest, a custom which Le Vavasseur mentions without either blame or praife. In England it might be useful as a fignal to intending communicants to approach.

344. When the priest is ready to communicate the people, the fervers rife and, without meeting before the centre of the altar, go quietly round to any convenient places near the north and fouth walls of the fanctuary, fo that the first server is near the credence-table on the fouth, while the second is opposite to him on the other fide of the chancel. They may either stand or kneel, but should both do the fame, and if they stand should genuflect towards the Bleffed Sacrament as foon as they arrive and before they leave.

When all have been communicated the fervers will return to their former position at the altar steps, and remain kneeling there till after the Bleffing.

345. The fervers will rise from their knees as the priest raises himfelf from the act of adoration he makes towards the Bleffed Sacrament immediately after he has given the Bleffing. They will go towards one another, and fide by fide before the midst of the altar will genuflect,

P This affumes that the credence is in its proper place on the fouth fide of the fanctuary. a See No. 303.