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O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God and of the glorious Virgin ; in remembrance and praise of thy boundless love, with which thou didst give thyself wholly to us upon the altar of the cross, behold I offer unto thee this day this present sacrifice of the mass, together with all those which are celebrated throughout the world, by the hands of thy Priests, to be presented to thy eternal Father, in union with, and in the virtue of, that oblation in which thou thyself, dying on the cross, didst offer thy sacred body and blood for the salvation of the world.

Grant that the oblation of the same thy body and blood, which here is renewed in mystery, and is made under the form of bread and wine, may effectually obtain its proper fruit : and that thereby the living may obtain grace ; the faithful de- parted, rest ; and those for whom the sacrifice is offered, mercy and life eternal. Accept also, O Lord, this same sacrifice, which contains in itself the fruit of thy passion and death, as an act of thanks- > Digitized by CjOOQIC ORDINARY OF THE MASS, In Masses for the Dead, the foregoing prayer is said, but the water is not blessed. Then the Priest takes the chalice, and offers it, saying : Offerimus tibi, Domine, We offer unto thee, O calicem salutaris, tuam de- Lord, the chalice of salva- precantes clementiam, ut tion, beseeching thy cle- m conspectu divinae Maj es- mency, that, in the sight tatis tuae, pro nostra et totius of thy divine Majesty it mundi salute cum odore may ascend with the odour suavitatis ascendat. Amen, of sweetness, for our sal- vation, and for that of the whole world. Amen