BLESSING OF THE NEW SHIP. Our help is in the name of the Lord. R. Who made heaven and earth. The Lord be with you. R. And with you and with your spirit.

Let us pray.

Be favourable, O Lord, to our supplications, and bless this ship with thy holy right hand, and all that are conveyed in it, as thou didst the ark of Noah floating over the deluge. Stretch forth to them, O Lord, thy right hand, as thou didst to blessed Peter walking on the sea, and send thy holy angel from heaven to free and to preserve them from all perils, with all that are in her; and driving away all adversity, grant them a peaceful voyage to the wished-for port; and having transacted and successfully completed all their affairs, vouchsafe to bring them again with joy to their several homes. Who livest and reignest for ever and ever.

R. Amen.

therein, that they may be fitted and. blessed for divine worship and the sacred mysteries; that thy bishops, priests, and levites, having put on these robes, may deserve to be fortified and defended from all the attacks and temptations of evil spirits; and grant to them aptly and worthily to minister in thy mysteries, and to cleave to, and quietly and devoutly to persevere in them. Through

our Lord Christ. R. Amen.

Let us pray.

O God, the Conqueror of invincible power, and Creator and Sanctifier of all things, be favourable to our prayers, and vouchsafe, with thine own lips, to bless +, sanctify +, and consecrate these garments for the glory of the levite, priest, and bishop, to be used by thy servants, and all using them; and vouchsafe to render them fit for thy mysteries, and those serving in them devoutly and worthily agreeable to thee. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, for ever and ever. R. Amen.

Let us pray.

O Lord God Almighty, who didst command thy servant Moses to make robes for the pontiffs, priests, and levites, for the necessary use of the tabernacle of covenant, and didst fill him with the spirit of wisdom to accomplish the same, vouchsafe to bless +, sanctify +, and consecrate these robes for the use and observance of thy mysteries; and grant to the ministers of thy altar who put them on, to be worthily filled with the grace of the sevenfold Spirit, and the stole of chastity, and, through the blessed fruit of good works, to be clothed with the robe of immortality. Through Christ our Lord. R. Amen.

Then he sprinkles the robes with holy

water.

BLESSING OF NAPKINS AND TABLECLOTHS, OR THE LINEN OF THE ALTAR.

Our help is in the name of the Lord. R. Who made heaven and earth. The Lord be with you. R. And with thy spirit. R. Amen.

Let us pray.

O Lord, almighty God, who didst teach thy servant Moses, through forty days, to make the ornaments and linen, which, also, Mary1 wove and made for the tabernacle of covenant, vouchsafe to bless+, sanctify, and consecrate

this linen to cover and wrap the altar of thy most glorious Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Who lives and reigns with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. R. Amen.

Then he sprinkles them with holy water.

BLESSING OF THE CORPORALS.

Our help is in the name of the Lord. R. Who made heaven and earth. The Lord be with you. R. And with thy spirit.

PRAYER ON CONSECRATION OF A BISHOP.

Which is said with the Prayer of the mass of the day, at its conclusion; and

in like manner the Secret aad Post-communion.

Prayer. Be graciously present to our supplications, almighty God, that what is done in the ministry of our humiliation, may be completed by the effect of thy power. Through our Lord.

Secret, Consecrator.-Accept, O Lord, the gifts which we offer to thee for this thy servant, that thou mayest graciously guard in him thy gifts. Through our Lord.

The consecrated says,

Accept, O Lord, the gifts which we offer to thee for me thy servant, that thou mayest graciously guard in me thy gifts. Through our Lord.

Within the Action, Consecrator.-O Lord, we beseech thee, well pleased, to receive the oblation of our service, and for all thy family, which we offer to thee, also, for this thy servant, whom thou hast vouchsafed to promote to the epis copate, and graciously to guard in him thy gifts, that what is done in the divine office may be followed with divine effects. Dispose our days in thy peace, and command us to be delivered from eternal condemnation, and numbered among thy chosen. Through our Lord Christ. R. Amen.

The consecrated says,

O Lord, we beseech thee to accept, well pleased, this oblation of our service, both for all thy family and which we offer to thee, also for me thy servant, whom thou hast vouchsafed to promote

to the order of the episcopate, and graciously guard in me thy gifts, that what I have attained by a divine office I may attain in divine effects. Dispose our days in thy peace, and command us to be snatched from eternal condemnation, and numbered amongst thy chosen people. Through our Lord Christ. R..

Amen.

Post-communion.-O Lord, we beseech thee to work in us the full remedy of thy compassion, and so perfect and so cherish such in us, that we may be able to please thee in all things.

PRAYER ON COLLATION TO SACRED
ORDERS,

Which is said with the Prayer of the mass at the conclusion, and, in like manner, the Secret and Post-communion.

Prayer.-Give ear, O Lord, to our supplications, that serving thee with a devoted heart, and enjoying thy perpetual guardianship, and hindered by no disquietudes, we may always present a free service in thy offices. Through our Lord.

Secret.-O Lord, we beseech thee so to work in thy mysteries, that we may offer to thee these gifts with becoming minds. Through our Lord.

Post-communion.-O Lord, grant that those whom thou refreshest by thy sacraments may be sustained by thy continual help, that we may partake of the effect of thy redemption, both in mysteries and in manners. Through our Lord.