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 paten, and allowing them to touch the breads thereon, and says, "This is my Body which is given for you; Do this in remembrance of me." If a ciborium be used to hold the breads for the people, the priest holds his bread, and extends his other fingers over the breads in the said ciborium, if possible, allowing his fingers to touch the breads, while he repeats the words, "This is my Body," etc. After he has said the words of consecration the priest raises his head and, holding the host (as before, with both hands) over the paten, he genuflects slowly and devoutly, rises at once in like manner, and elevates the host in a perpendicular line above the paten to a point a little above his head, holds it there for an instant and at once lowers it and places it upon the paten. (From this time until the ablutions the thumb and forefinger of each hand are not to be disjoined except when the consecrated bread has to be touched or handled.) After placing his host upon the paten, the priest places his hands upon the corporal, to the right and left of the paten, the palm of each hand turned towards the altar-mensa, and, holding his head erect, genuflects as before and rises again. If he has used a ciborium, he now covers it and places it conveniently upon the back part of the corporal. If there be upon the corporal an extra vessel of wine, the priest, before proceeding with the consecration, will place the said vessel, uncovered, alongside of and to the right of the chalice. In either case, whether the wine be only in the chalice or also in another vessel, the priest now places the extremities of the last three fingers of his left hand upon the base of the chalice, and then taking the pall between the middle finger and the forefinger of his right hand, he lifts it up from the chalice and lays it down upon the back part of the corporal so that it will rest partly on the veil. If there be need to do so, the priest, before taking hold of the chalice, should rub together the thumb and forefinger of each hand over the paten, in order to remove any particles of the host that may have adhered to them. Proceeding with the prayer, as he says the words, "Likewise after supper," the priest takes the chalice, with both hands, by the knop, and raising it about four inches above the altar, he says the words, "he took the cup," and at once places it again on the corporal. Rh