This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1903. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... To conclude, let us hear what a modern learned writer on the liturgy, Le Brun, says upon this (88) matter: "At this prayer, when we make five signs of the cross, the first, at saying Hostiam *j > purum, indicates that there is there the pure victim which was nailed to the cross; the second, ai saying Hostiam ii* sanetam, indicates that there is there the holy victim which was ottered up upon the cross; the third, at saying Hostiam ti- immacidatam, that there is there the victim without spot which was immolated upon the cross; the fourth, at Panem Hr* sanctum, means that we have there the holy bread of life, that is to say, Him who declared, 'I am the true bread of life that came down from heaven, and died upon a cross, to give you life;' the fifth, at Caliccm DEGREES salutis, signifies that the blood which is in the chalice, is the very same that was shed upon the cross for the world's redemption. These five signs of the cross, as well as the five words to which they are joined, are but lively expressions which ought to call to our mind that the victim of the altar and the victim of the cross is but one and the very same."--Le Brun, Explication des Prieres et des Ceremonies de la Messe, t. ii. part 4, art. xi. p. 489. (90) Transubstantiation is an article of Catholic belief, as strongly held and as rigorously required to be unhesitatingly received by all, in the eastern as well as the western part of Christendom. Not only the united or orthodox Greeks, and other Oriental churches in communion with Rome, but the Photians or separated Greeks, and the other sects in the East living apart, by schis7ii and heresy, from Rome, entirely agree with (91) her and the Latins upon Transubstantiation. Nay, the liturgies of the East are, if anything, eve...