OPENING PROCESSION

If the church is large enough, the procession should be made inside, not outside of it ; if outside, it is only made a short distance and does not stop at any repository. If a procession is impossible, the same incensing is done, and the same pièces are

sung, with the exception of the Tantum ergo and Genitnri which are sung but once, ail remaining on their ioiees-

After mass, having made the prostration, the célébrant and his ministers goto the banquette to take ofï their maniples. The célébrant takes off the chasuble and puts on the cope of the color indicated in No. 14. He puts incense in the two censors. if there is to be a procession, if not, in one censor ; then he cornes with his minister to make the prostration in piano and kneels on the lowest altar step. The célébrant incenses tbe Blessed Sacrament three times, as on ordinary occasions, receives the humoral veil, goes up to the altar, kneels on the highest step, and from the deacon, who is standing, receives the ostensorium in his hands, covered with the veiî. He rises immediately and turns towards the people ; the deacon passes to his right and the sub-deacon to his left.

The singers then intone the hymn Pange Lingua which issung slowly, as is markedfor holy Thursday, and if the procession lasts long the Tantum Ergo is repeated between the verses. The cérémonies prescribed for holy Thursday are observed.

Care will be taken to organize the procession a little bfforehand, that the célébrant may immediately commence to move.

If any confraternity is to take part in the procession, it follows its banner, before the cross carried by a clerk in surplice, between two acolytes. The procession leaves by the gospel side and returns by the epistle side.

The Blessed Sacrament, which is incensed by two censor bearers, is preceded by at least eight priests, or clerks, in surplice, carryinglighted tapera. When the procession is to go ont of the Ohurch, four clerks, or

two at least, alongside of the canopy, carry lighted lanterns at the end of pôles, of sumcient height to make thèse lights visible aboyé the crowd. •