Oratio mea sicut incensum in conspectu tuo Domine.

B. gives censer to a priest, who should continually incense the stone, unless B. needs the

censer.

B. cum m. intones Ant. Erexit Jacob, then with Oleum Catech. anoints the stone in the order given above and saying the same words: Sanctificetur, etc. Choir continues:

Lapidem in titulum, fundens oleum desuper.

Ps. 83 Quam dilecta, etc. page 115, sine Gloria Patri. Ant. is repeated.

B, cum m. puts in and blesses incense, receives censer, intones Ant. Dirigatur, incenses stone. Choir continues:

Oratio mea sicut incensum in conspectu tuo Domine.

B. sine m.

Oremus. (Deacon:) Flectamus genua.
R. Levate.

B. Adsit Domine.......... P. C. D. N.

R. Amen.

B. intones Ant. Mane surgens Jacob, then cum m. with Oleum Catech. anoints the same places of stone, saying the same words. Choir con. tinues:

Erigebat lapidem in titulum, fundens oleum desuper, votum vovit Domino: vere locus iste sanctus est, et ego nesciebam. Ps. 91 Bonum est confiteri Domino, etc. page 177.

(Sine Gloria Patri.) Ant. is repeated.

B. cum m. puts in and blesses incense, receives censer, intones Ant. Dirigatur, then incenses stone. Choir continues:

Oratio mea sicut incensum in conspectu tuo Domine.

B. sine m.

Oremus. (Deacon) Flectamus genua. R. Levate.

B. Adesto Domine........... saecula saeculorum.

R. Amen.

B. intones Ant. Unxit te Deus, then cum m. with Chrism anoints the same places of stone, saying the same words. Choir continues:

Deus tuus, oleo laetitiae prae consortibus tuis.

Ps. 45 Deus noster refugium, et

virtus etc. page 182.

(Sine Gloria Patri.)

Ant. is repeated.

B. cum m. pats in and blesses incense, receives censer, intones Art Dirigatur, incenses stone. Choir continues:

Oratio mea sicut incensum in conspectu tuo Domine.

B. sine m.

Oremus. (Deacon) Flectamus genua.
B. Levate.

B. Exaudi nos ...... P. C. D. N.

R. Amen.

B. cum m. with Chrism anoints the sepulchre, saying:

Consecretur, et sanctificetur hoc sepulchrum.

In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritussancti.

Pax huic domui.

B. sine m. puts Relics and three grains of incense into sepulchre, closes and cements it.

B. sine m.

Oremus. Deus qui........... P. C. D. N.
R. Amen.

B. intones Ant. Ecce odor filii mei, then cum m. pours Oleum Catech. and Chrism over the stone, and spreads them. Choir continues:

Sicut odor agri pleni, cui benedixit Do

minus: crescere te faciat Deus meus sicut arenam maris, et donet tibi do rore coeli benedictionem.

Ps. 86 Fundamenta ejus, page 122.

(Sine Gloria Patri.)

Ant. is not repeated.

B- cum m.

Lapidem hunc........... saecula saeculorum. R. Amen.

B. intones Ant. Aedificavit Moyses. Choir continues:

Altare Domino Deo, offerens super illud holocausta: et immolans victimas; fecit sacrificium vespertinum in odorem suavitatis Domino Deo, in conspectu filiorum Israel.

B. Dei Patris.......... P. C. D. N.

R. Amen.

B. sine m. blesses grains of incense to be burnt on Altar.

Domine exaudi orationem meam.

R. Et clamor meus ad te veniat.

B. Dominus vobiscum.

R. Et cum spiritu tuo.

B. Oremus. Domine Deus omnipotens

Per eundem C D. N.

R. Amen.

B. sprinkles incense with holy water, then with five grains of incense forms crosses on the places of stone before anointed and places a cross of wax tapers on each, these are then lighted. Priest stops incensing but remains at hand.

B. sine m. kneels; intones Ant. Alleluja. Choir continues:

Veni sancte Spiritus, reple tuorum corda fidelium et tui amoris in eis ignem accende.

(During Septuag. time Alleluja is omitted.)
B. rises. Choir sings Ant.

Ascendit fumus aromatum in conspectu Domini de manu Angeli.

Then Ant. Stetit Angelus juxta aram templi, habens thuribulum aureum in manu sua; et data sunt ei incensa multa; et ascendit fumus aromatum in conspectu Dei.

B. Oremus. (Deacon:) Flectamus genua.
R. Levate.

B. Hujus altaris.......... P. C. D. N.

R. Amen.

When the tapers are burnt, the stone is scraped. The scrapings are thrown into sacrarium. In the meantime B. says: