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A42522	A brief explanation of several mysteries of the Holy Mass, and of the actions of the priest celebrating Very necessary for all Roman Catholics for the better understanding thereof. Together with certain reflections upon the Apostles Creed, touching the blessed Sacrament. And also, divers meditations and prayers both before, and after communion. By T. G. heretofore fellow of New-Colledge in Oxon, deceas'd.	Gawen, Thomas, ca. 1610-1684.	1686 (1686)	Wing G395AA; ESTC R220315	43,939	198

it may conduce toward the Expiation of All my Sins known and unknown and what other Obliquities are hourly occasion'd by my frail and Infirm Nature And since I cannot be totally exempt from These unless by death which is the only sure-End of all Offending Grant that to Cancel their account as fast as It grows upon me I may offer up and Consecrate to Thee sincerely All the short Remainder of this Life and then pass so much the more Joyfully into the next as where I shall be secur'd from discontenting Thee any longer Of the Mixture of Water and Wine THis puts me in mind of the Union of the Divinty and Humanity in the Person of Jesus Christ and then of the Unity of all the Faithful well denoted by Water a Symbol of Weakness which Jesus Christ well typify'd by Wine an Emblem of strength And as the Priest Offer'd up The Bread before so now he makes 1. Oblation of the Wine and Water and in Them again of the People to God The Suscipiamur 2. And lastly Oblation Generalis ● He makes the First General Oblation of All Bread Wine Himself and People altogether jointly with Humility and Contrition into the Hands of God and thereby Sanctifies and Prepares the whole matter of this Sacrifice DEVOTION O Strengthen my Weakness represented by this Water with a new Force and Virtue of Thy Spirit which is the Muste or New Wine of the Law of Grace Make me depend on Nothing nor cleave to any Thing but Thee since Thou alone art the Power of God and Vigorous Life of the Soul in whose Absence the strongest Activity in Man is but miserable Infirmity And as now The Priest presents to Thee the Chalice thereby to Sanctifie It before He proceed to Its Consecration so help Me O Lord to Offer up my Self to Thee Fortified and Heighten'd by Thy Blessing and Grace by which I may be Encourag'd and Enflam'd and so make my self every time more and more capable to be Offer'd up in Sacrifice to Thee and even to Die for Thee Which is really the Greatest Favour that thou canst do any Mau during His Abode here Washing of the Priest's Hands THis meaneth Repentance for the daily Pollutions we incurr by our Frailty For there 's no approaching This Holy Sacrifice without renouncing and quitting as much as is possible such Impurities by a sincere Grief for and loathing of them though but Sins of Infirmity Hence It is that the Priest Washeth only the Tops of his Fingers To signifie that when one comes to Offer this Sacrifice 't is no time then to set about Repentance for Mortal Sins such one should have been freed and purg'd from before but all that is to be done is only to Wash off yet by unfeigned Grief and true Compunction those lesser Impurities and Defilements which in the course of this Life and by Conversation with things of this World we cannot avoid but that they will be sticking at least to the Outward parts as it were of our Souls and to the Works of our Hands But those that willingly neglect to Purify themselves from these though never so small Imperfections are unworthy of this Sacrament saith St. Denis as on the contrary The greatest Sins and Abominations that be cannot render those unworthy of approaching to It who have dis-engag'd their Wills from them and truly detest them in their Hearts DEVOTION SVffer not O my God the Pollutions of this World so to Defile My Hands that is My Actions as that they should contract any store of Filth from It but since 't is impossible to Converse here in this Earthly Habitation cleanly without All Sullying Grant that at most The Spots may but arrive to the outmost and lesser parts of Them as It were to the very Tops of the Fingers only A Petition suggested to me by the Priests Washing His. First Possess my Heart intirely and at all times and then let my Actions regard Thee too as their Principal Object and if secondarily in their Out-sides and parts farthest off They touch the fouling Earth Let me never cease Washing them with Tears of True Repentance and in the Water and Grace of Thy Holy Spirit till They be again Purify'd Especially as often as I come before Thee to partake of the Communion of Thy Blessed Body and to assist at That most Holy Sacrifice to which it would become Vs to approach in the greatest Purity Man in this Life can be capable of Because It is a darker Vision of God and some Representation of our Imployment in Heaven whither no Unclean Thing can Enter Vpon the Suscipe Sancta Trinitas The Kissing the Alar and Orate Fratres and the Secreta Suscipe Sancta Trinitas THe Priest having put himself into This Purity of Body and Mind with most profound Humility makes a Second General Oblation of all Oblation Generalis 2 1. Directing it to the proper Object of Worship The Holy and Blessed Trinity And 2. Applying it to the right End Of Commemoration of the Passion Resurrection and Ascention of Jesus Christ Of Honour to all the Glorify'd Saints in the Church Triumphant and of Salvation to all yet in the Militant by their Intercession implor'd 3. Kisses the Altar Orate Fratres THe Priest having already implor'd the Intercession of the Glorious Saints above for the things specify'd and particularly for that Acceptance of This Oblation and Sacrifice Now turns himself to the People desiring them to Joyn their Prayers to the same End DEVOTION DErive into me O Lord That Grace which the Priest Receives upon the Kissing of the Altar that stands in stead of Thee that assisted by It I may bear a part in That Common Prayer which He now Exhorts all the Faithful to joyn in with Him To Supplicate Thee favourably to Receive The Sacrifice He is here going to Offer unto Thee in the Behalf of the whole Church And do it the rather for the Honour of those Great Mysteries and Those Holy Saints which he hath just now made particular Commemoration of on purpose to teach us the Value of this Extraordinary Act of Grace by the Greatness of the Means imploy'd to obtain It. Agitate now in the Strictest Closet of my Soul by the means of this other Prayer which the Church calls Secret and produce therein the proper Effects of those good Thoughts which Thou hast been pleas'd to form in Me to Prepare me the better for this Sacrifice The Preface SO call'd because 't is the Entry to the Canon of the Mass and the last Immediate Preparation-general to the Sacrifice For here the Priest endeavours to prepare the People by putting them in mind 1. Of raising up their Heart in Devotion to God and taking It off from all Thoughts or Inclinations to any thing here below That they begin this Sacrifice of Offering up Christ to His Father by first Offering up their own Hearts which must be still the Anti-Sacrifice to all others or else they

Assembled together which was Antiently by a Kiss Oral as now by Kissing an Instrument as a Crucifix c. for that use was held as a Pledge of the Joy and Tranquility in Paradice and so thought less proper for the days of Sadness and Mourning for those who yet by their Sins were detain'd from Entrance into That Joy DEVOTION SO Cur'd I will take and Kiss the Pax which is given to Me on the Priest's part or rather in truth on Thine since He himself before He derives It to the People takes It from Thee in That Kiss given to the Altar which is in stead of Thee O make me keep always This Peace this Sacred Peace and let me never care for other as I am not taken with any thing call'd good unless it come from Thee And in this Preparation let me Approach to the Communion of Thy Blessed Body which as is said is the Earnest and beginning of That more Perfect Peace that we Hope to enjoy in Heaven intimated by Thy Prophet promising on Thy part A Peace that transcends all other Peace The Communion NExt the Priest having dispos'd Himself to Communicate by those two Prayers Domine Jesu Christi Fili Dei c. and Preceptio Corporis and protested His own great Unworthiness in those Words of the Centurion Domine non sum dignus c. thrice re-doubled after a little pause or Humble Examination Eates the Body and then Drinks the Blood in the Chalice After each adding a short Rapture or Meditation Then he proceeds to Communicate the Others that are dispos'd thereunto SHewing hereby that both Priest and People do partake of the same Sacrifice are fed with the same Spiritual Food from the same Table admitted to the same Pasture all in quality of being the Sheep of the same Shepheard And in this the Priest seems to Acknowledge First In Humility that in that Respect of being a Sheep of Christ's and to be fed by Him He is nothing at all different from the People Secondly In Charity that the dispensing the things of God to the People ought to proceed from the fulness which He hath received from God Himself and that He is to feed the Faithful out of his Store and that which remains over and above DEVOTION LOrd I am not worthy of the least of all Thy Mercies much less of the Greatest as is this Communion of Thine own Body and Blood by which Thou enterest into Me and in a most ineffable manner minglest Thy self with my very Substance transplanting into Me Thy Humanity Thy Divinity Thy Person nay together with It The whole Trinity so that I am not only their Temple as before but in some kind even one with Thee and It. This is a Favour so great and so incomprehensible that I may well look on my self as most unworthy of it not only because I no way deserve It but because I can no way Understand It since it surpasses all thoughts of Men or Angels Grant me that after a Communion and Union so Miraculous I be never any thing but Thine never any thing but Thee And that nothing be ever able to separate me in the least kind from Thee But that I may see all Creatures far remov'd from and Infinitely below Me who am in Thee and that as I am not to Live but In Thee so I may have no Affection neither No sense but for Thee Not coucern'd in any thing but so far as thou wilt have Me or as thou esteemest Thy self concern'd in It. Let this Food be my Everlasting Nourishment and let me so Relish It that it may make me loose the Taste of all things else and the gust of My self especially That remaining un-alter'd and Incorruptible in my Heart it may Consume all the Corruption in my Body and Soul and Sublimate them to a Being totally Spiritual and Incorruptible too partly Now but Perfectly at the Great Resurrection May it be within me a Head and Fountain of Life perpetually running into Actions and Increasing toward that Life wholly Divine and Immortal and retarding and putting off farther and farther the Encroachments of a Death which I still carry about Me In like manner as the Corporal Food which I take respites me from the Assaults of Death and helps to lengthen and prolong this Mortal Life of my Body let it be always at Hand since It ought always to be in my Heart And let the Remembrance and Respect wherewith I shall every Moment in a kind of Mastication and Chewing Honour and Adore It Innure me to Taste and Comprehend the Excellency thereof as far surpassing All Manna or what-ever other most Delicate Dainties which can never free Vs quite from Perishing but Perish themselves whereas This on the contrary hath an undecayable Life in It self and makes Vs to live everlastingly Let It be to me instead of all other Affecting me with all the Pleasures and Gusts that any Spiritual Refection is capable of as That Manna is said to give the Jews all the Delicious Relishes that were to be sound in any other repast of the Body Let is fully satisfy me and make me so Reflect upon this great Happiness of being fed now in this Life with the same Bread which so abundantly blesseth with all Felicities Men and Angels that I never Covet more Let this Sacred Body be the Soul of my Soul as my Soul is the Soul of my Body and let all my Thoughts and Affections all Energies Motions and Actions whatever I feel or do proceed from It as all my Natural Movement and Operations come from my Soul Let it be in me A Spring of all Graces streaming them out unto me every moment suitably to my Necessities That Well of Living Waters flowing up to Everlasting Life which it hath pleas'd God to open not only in the midst of His Church as in the middle of Paradice But also in the Middle and Heart of every Faithful Soul which is to Him no less a Paradice and a Church than the whole Vniversal Let this Divine Source quench the Thirst of my Soul Allay my Heats and Irregular Desires by Nourishing another Supernatural Heat of Grace and Divine Love which Dissipates those strange Inflamations and Carnal Feavers of Concupiscence and may that Love consume in me the very Seed of Sin as it Cherishes and makes take root that other Seed of Life and Immortality Let this Admirable Spring float my Soul higher and higher above all Creatures Visible and Invisible till it bring it up into my God from whom it self is fed it being natural to all Waters to raise themselves as high as their Beginnings and to Advance thither too whatever they carry Let this Food as soon as I have taken It give Proof of its Efficacy in making me Strong and Potent against those occasions of Sinning which before abus'd my Feebleness and were too prevalent over Me. Let it give me New Spirits and Light First to discover and discern and then to