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PFriest:
URTHERMORE we offer to You this reasonable and
bloodless worship, and we beseech and pray and entreat You: send down Your Holy Spirit upon us and upon the gifts here presented.
Deacon: Bless, Master, the holy bread.
The priest blesses the holy bread.
Priest: And make this bread the precious Body of Your Christ.
Deacon: Amen. Bless, Master, the holy cup. The priest blesses the holy cup.
Priest:
And that which is in this cup the precious Blood of Your Christ.
Deacon: Amen. Bless both, Master. The priest blesses them both.
Priest: Changing them by Your Holy Spirit.
Deacon: Amen. Amen. Amen.
PТriest:
HAT they may be for
those who partake of them for sobriety of soul, re­ mission of sins, communion
of Your Holy Spirit, fullness of the Kingdom of Heaven, boldness before You, not for
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