Devotions in the ancient way of offices with psalms, hymns, and prayers for every day in the week and every holiday in the year.

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Devotions in the ancient way of offices with psalms, hymns, and prayers for every day in the week and every holiday in the year.
Author
Birchley, William, 1613-1669.
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Paris :: [s.n.],
1668.
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Subject terms
Catholic Church. -- Breviary.
Church of England. -- Book of common prayer.
Rhymed offices.
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Corpus Christi; and during the Octave.

All, as in Thursday Office, except

1. Antiph. I am the living bread that came down from heav'n: if any one eat of this bread, he shal live for ever; and the bread which I wil give is my flesh, for the life of the world: Alleluja.

2. Antiph. Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shal not have life in you: Alleluja.

3. Antiph. He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I wil raise him up at the last day: Alleluja.

Antiph. for Benedictus and Magnificat. O sweet and sacred Feast, wherein Christ himself is receiv'd, and the memory of his Passion re∣new'd; our minds are fill'd with grace, and our future glory secur'd to us with a dear and preci∣ous Pledge: Alleluja, Alleluja.

Prayer.

O God, whose infinite mercy has wonder∣fully contriv'd the very Body of our Sa∣viour, which glorify'd sits at thy right hand in the heav'ns, to become stil the daily visible Ob∣ject and Solliciter of our adorations on earth! Grant us, we beseech Thee, so devoutly to cele∣brate

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this glorious Festival, instituted by thy Church in memory of that stupendious provi∣dence, as may sanctify us every day to feed more strongly with it our faith and hope and charity; and raise in us a higher appetite of that clear unveiled Vision, to which our hidden God thus miraculously now condescends to invite us; through the same our Lord, &c.

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