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 genuflecting before and after, and whensoever he passes in front of the Sacrament.

When he censes the oblation, he says:

Bless this incense, and take it up to thee, O Lord, and so let thy mercy come down upon us.

When he censes the Altar, he says:

Ps. 141. Let my prayer, O Lord, be set forth in thy sight as the incense: and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and keep the door of my lips. O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing: let me not be occupied in ungodly works.

As he gives back the censer to the Deacon, he says:

May the Lord kindle in us the fire of his love, and the flame of his everlasting charity. Amen.

He is not censed himself.

Afterward he washes his hands a little away from the Altar at the Epistle horn, saying nothing: then bowing down in the middle of the Altar, with hands joined, he says:

With humble spirits and contrite souls let us enter now thy presence, O Lord, and so offer our sacrifice to thee, that it may this day be precious in thy sight, O Lord our God.

Then turning towards the people, on the Gospel side, he says: 

Pray, brethren, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God the Father Almighty.

He turns back by the same way, not completing the circle: and omitting all else, says immediately: 

S our Saviour Christ hath commanded and taught us, we are bold to say: Our Father, which art in heaven: Hallowed be thy Name: Thy kingdom come: