Lanterna Rally

Author: Ernest Beresford-Cooke

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9781333981051

Excerpt from The Sign of the Cross in the Western Liturgies IT has been the writer's endeavour, in the following pages, to consider some of the more important features which disclose themselves upon an examination of the use of the Sign of the Cross in the Western Liturgies, and especially in the canon of the mass. No attempt has been made at anything like a complete account of this ceremony. To do so would obviously have been quite beyond the scope of an Alcuin Club tract. What has been written, however, is published in the hope that it may do something towards making the use and purpose of this sacred gesture more intelligible to those who may not have been able to give to this subject the attention which it deserves. It will be noticed that the reader's attention has been especially called to (i) the extension of the celebrant's arms in madam Crucis, while pleading the merits of our Saviour's death and passion, to (2) the use of the sign of the cross in conse cration and (3) to the signings over the already consecrated elements - the host and chalice, - such a prominent ritual feature in the Western canon of the mass. In regard to the first question, it has been the writer's wish to call attention to the almost universal pre valence of this ceremony in the Western Church. So far as the last is concerned, it is his belief that he has pointed out some grave reasons why the practice of signing the already consecrated elements should be regarded as a liturgical anomaly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.