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 the responses audibly, and joins with priest and people in saying the Confession, the Sanctus, and the Gloria in excelsis, or hymn. If a bell is used, he rings it, with a double stroke, three times at the Sanctus, and six times at the elevation, viz. each time the priest elevates the Sacrament, and each time he genuflects. If the server receives the holy communion he does so whilst kneeling on the foot-pace on the Epistle-side. If he does not communicate sacramentally, the server, when the priest turns to administer to the people, goes and kneels on the lowest step at the Epistle-end of the altar. When the priest covers the vessels with the veil, the server kneels again in his place opposite the Epistle-side of the altar. At the Gloria in excelsis, or at the hymn, the server stands. He kneels during the post-communion prayer, and the Blessing. Then he goes to the credence, takes the stoppers out of the cruets, takes up the wine-cruet in his right hand, and the water-cruet in his left, and goes to the Epistle-end of the altar. If the priest has drained the chalice the server advances at once to pour a little wine into the chalice which the priest will hold out to him; otherwise he kneels on the altar-steps facing the priest until that time comes. Having poured wine into the chalice, the server returns to the step below the foot-pace at the Epistle-corner, and there, when the priest comes, pours a few drops of wine, and a little water, over the priest's finger-tips, into the chalice. This done, (or when the priest shows he needs no further service at that point in the mass) he returns to the credence, puts down the cruets and puts in the stoppers. Then, if the priest has left the book open, the server moves it, (as at the Gospel in the Mass) from the Epistle to the Gospel-corner, and there awaits the priest. At the priest's salutation, and again after the announcement of the Gospel, the server makes response and signs himself as in the mass, and then goes on the floor to his place on the Epistle-side where he faces towards the priest. If the priest genuflect during the reading of the Gospel, the server does so simultaneously. When the priest has descended the steps the server hands him his biretta (if it has been worn on approaching the altar), makes the due act of reverence together with the priest, and precedes him to the sacristy. Rh