us by thy heavenly grace; that we, approaching unto thee with pure heart and undefiled conscience, may offer unto thee a sacrifice in righteousness, and may be accepted in thy sight, through our great High Priest, Jesus Christ. Amen.

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EUCHARISTIC PRAYER.

E magnify and praise thy glorious name,
O Lord God Almighty :

For thou didst form us in thine own image, giving us rational souls, and making us only a little lower than the angels:

For thou hast opened thy hand, and supplied all our wants, and hast loaded us with benefits, so that our cup runneth over:

For, as a man pitieth his own son, so hast thou pitied us; and as a father chasteneth the son whom he loveth, so hast thou chastened us, to make us partakers of thy holiness:

For all thy benefits known to us, for all unknown, we give thanks: but chiefly that when, through our disobedience, we had fallen from thee and forfeited thy favour, thou didst not suffer us to depart from thee for ever, but hast

ransomed us from eternal death, by the sufferings and death of Jesus Christ thy Son; and hast given to us the blessed hope of everlasting life by his resurrection, his triumphant exaltation at thy right hand, by the gift of the Holy Ghost, and the glorious promise of his second coming in majesty to judge the quick and the dead.

O God our Saviour, thou hast broken our chains that we might be free: thou hast healed our diseased souls that we might not perish of the second death: thou hast enriched us, who were poor and destitute, with the treasures of thy salvation: thou hast made us, who were miserable sinners, to be heirs of God, that we might possess all things: thou hast exalted us in hope to be princes in thy kingdom, and to sit with Christ upon his throne; and even now, all things are ours, the world, and life, and death and our present affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us an exceeding, even an eternal weight of glory.

Therefore do we, with one voice and one heart, laud and magnify thy glorious name, and with thy saints on earth and in heaven, we

ascribe blessing and honour, and glory and power, unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever. Amen.

Then these words may be sung:

THOU my soul, bless God the Lord;
And all that in me is,

Be stirred up his holy name

To magnify and bless.

Bless, O my soul, the Lord thy God,

And not forgetful be

Of all his gracious benefits

He hath bestow'd on thee.

All thine iniquities who doth
Most graciously forgive:
Who thy diseases all and pains
Doth heal, and thee relieve.

Who doth redeem thy life, that thou
To death may'st not go down;
Who thee with loving-kindness doth

And tender mercies crown:

The Lord our God is merciful,

And he is gracious,

Long-suffering, and slow to wrath,

In mercy plenteous.-Ps. ciii.

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Let us pray.

CONSECRATING PRAYER.

LMIGHTY GOD, we, thy servants, calling

to mind the most blessed sacrifice of thy Son, rejoicing in that salvation which he hath accomplished for us, do in this manner, eating this bread and drinking of this cup, according to his command, show forth the Lord's death till he come again:

Wherefore, we entreat thee to grant thy heavenly benediction, that these creatures of bread and wine may be set apart and consecrated to this holy use and mystery that we, by faith, may look upon Christ our Lord, set forth under these symbols, and may receive the bread of everlasting life, and the cup of eternal salvation, so that the hunger and thirst of our souls may be satisfied, that the power of sin and death may be destroyed, both in the flesh and in the spirit, and we may be preserved in soul and body unto eternal life. Amen.

A Psalm of Praise.

O SEND out thy light and thy truth:

Let them lead me; let them bring me to thy

holy hill,

Even to thy tabernacles.

Then will I go to the altar of God,

Unto God my exceeding joy :

Yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.

I will offer to thee the sacrifices of thanksgiving,

And will call upon the name of the Lord.
I will pay my vows unto the Lord,

Now in the presence of all his people.

"After all have communicated, the Minister may in a few words put them in mind

"Of the grace of God in Jesus Christ, held forth in this Sacrament; and exhort them to walk worthy of it." After which,

"The Minister is to give solemn thanks to God.” 1

POST COMMUNION PRAYER.

(Thanksgiving :) ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, we most heartily thank thee that thou hast now vouchsafed to feed us with the spiritual food of the most precious body and blood of thy Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ; 1 The Directory.