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 faithful Christians, both living and dead, that it may be profitable for my own and for their salvation unto life eternal. Amen.

Then, making the sign of the cross with the paten, he places the Host upon the corporal.

The priest pours wine and water into the chalice, blessing the water before it is mixed, saying:

O God, ✠ Who hast wonderfully framed man’s exalted nature, and still more wonderfully restored it: grant us, by the mystic signification of this commingling of water and wine, to become partakers of the Godhead of Him Who vouchsafed to become partaker of our manhood, Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord; Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost; world without end. Amen.

(If it is a Solemn Mass, the deacon ministers the wine, the subdeacon the water.) Offering up the chalice, he says:

e offer unto Thee, O Lord, the chalice of salvation, beseeching