Non debet sacerdos parochialis esse sine chrismate: sed debet quilibet sacerdos parochialis a suo episcopo, non ab alio, in propria persona sua vel per alium sacerdotem, diaconum, vel subdiaconum, chrisma petere singulis annis ante Pascha. Sacerdos qui de veteri chrismate ungit baptizatum (nisi in articulo necessitatis) deponendus est: et ideo debet omni die cænæ Domini novum Chrisma ab episcopo confici, et vetus removeri et concremari. ¶ Item tam sacrum oleum quam chrisma sub fideli custodia clave adhibita debent observari, ne ad illa possit manus temeraria extendi ad aliqua nefaria exercenda. Nota quod tempore interdicti generalis licite possunt conferri baptismus et confirmatio, tam adultis quam parvulis, sed non cum pulsatis campanis neque alta voce. Confirmatio Puerorum.' Oremus. N primis dicat episcopus. Adjutorium nostrum. Sit nomen Domini, etc. Dominus vobiscum. Et cum spiritu tuo. Oratio. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui regenerare dignatus es hos famulos tuos vel has famulas tuas ex aqua et Spiritu Sancto, quique dedisti eis remissionem omnium peccatorum: immitte in eos septiformem spiritum, sanctum paraclitum, de cœlis. Amen. Spiritum sapientiæ et intellectus. Amen. Spiritum consilii et fortitudinis. Amen. Amen. Et imple3 eos vel eas spiritu timoris Domini. Et consigna eos vel eas signo sanctæ crucis confirma eos vel eas chrismate salutis in vitam propitiatus æternam. Amen. 1 "Confirmatio puerorum et aliorum baptizatorum." Pontif. Sar, In placing the Order of Confirmation after the Form of Administering Holy Baptism, I have followed the arrangement of the Salisbury Pontifical: and not of the Manual. The last has this Office towards the end of the volume; immediately preceding the Benedictions: and following the Order of the Burial of the Dead. In fact, strictly, this Order of Confirmation was not a necessary part of the Manual of the Parish-priest; and was included usually in it, for his instruction and not for his use. "Hunc famulum tuum." Sarum. Pontif. which is the better reading. 3" Adimple." Pontif. Sar. Et tunc episcopus petat nomen, et ungat pollicem chrismate: et faciat in fronte pueri crucem, dicens.* Consigno te N. signo crucis et confirmo te chrismate salutis. In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.5 Oratio. Deus, qui apostolis tuis Sanctum dedisti Spiritum, quique per eos eorum successoribus cæterisque fidelibus tradendum esse voluisti: respice propitius ad nostræ humanitatis famulatum: et præsta, ut horum corda quorum frontes sacrosancto chrismate delinivimus, et signo sanctæ crucis consignavimus, idem Spiritus Sanctus adveniens, templum gloriæ suæ dignanter inhabitando perficiat. Per Dominum: in unitate ejusdem.6 Ecce sic benedicetur omnis homo, qui timet Domi Benedicat vos Dominus ex Sion: ut videatis bona Hierusalem omnibus diebus vestris. Benedicat vos omnipotens Deus: Pater, et Filius, et Spiritus Sanctus. Amen. animabus omnium fidelium defunctorum, et quod tertia die vadant cum pueris ad ecclesiam ad chrismalia deponenda, et sic recedant in nomine Domini." Pontif. Sar.. The Chrismalia were the linen bands tied across the foreheads of the newly confirmed: and to which frequent reference is made in various Diocesan English Synods. For example, of Ægidius Bishop of Sarum, in 1256: "nec chrismalia debent alienari, nec in aliquos usus mitti debent, nisi in usus ecclesiæ." Of Quivil, Bishop of Exeter, 1287: "Confirmandi secum deferant ligaturas mundas latitudinis et longitudinis competentis, quas post confirmationem per triduum portare, deinde igne comburi præcipimus, et confirmatos ultra baptisterium per manus sacerdotis, vel saltem diaconi ablui." Wilkins. Concilia. tom. 1. p. 713. tom. 2. p. 132. I have had some doubt whether I should adopt for the text, the Order as given in the Manual, or in the Pontifical, to which it properly belongs. But I have not thought it desirable upon the whole, to reject the Manual: although the variations of the Pontifical are undeniably of considerable importance, and certainly to be the rather chosen, as giving us the Order of Confirmation, as performed at the time when the MS. was written, now before me. But the Manuals which I have examined, of the succeeding Century, all agree in the Form, which is taken for the text. At any rate, the reader has both before him: and it is open to some doubt, whether any alterations took place during the latter part of the xvth Century. The Order of Confirmation is very nearly the same according to the ancient Anglo Saxon Ritual of Durham, which the student will find in the edition by the Surtees Society, p. 119. "Oratio ad infantes consignandos." |