the Latin Church; by the Maronites, and Armenians. 17. The sacrament hinted at in the Apocalypse. 18. The circular form 1. An unknown tongue used in the Jewish Temple. 2. Not blamed by Christ, who prayed in an unknown tongue. 3. Rea- sons why the Catholic Church uses Latin at Mass. 4. The people not necessarily obliged to understand the language of the Mass. 5. Latin at Mass no-wise prejudicial to the people. 6. Greeks, Syrians, Copts, and Armenians, use an unknown ON THE INVOCATION OF SAINTS AND ANGELS. 1. Immeasurable distance between the worship given to God, and the reverence shown to the Saints. 2. Religious respect may be rendered to Saints and Angels. 3. The Angels and Saints make intercession for men. 4. Inferred from the communion of Saints in the Apostles' Creed. 5. From the charity which animates the Saints. 6. The Invocation of Angels proved from Scripture; from the Psalms; from Genesis; from the Apoca- lypse. 7. The Invocation of Saints proved from Scripture. 8. Holy men have, even in this life, been invoked by others. 9. Invocation of Saints in the primitive Church proved from an- cient inscriptions. 10. Invocation of Saints in the Anglo-Saxon Church. 11. Contained in all the Liturgies. 12. Objections answered. 13. Charity engages the Saints to pray for us. 14. They have the power of doing it. 15. They know what passes upon earth. 16. Their intercession not derogatory to the me- diatorship of Christ. 17. Manner of addressing God through the Saints. 18. Similarity of Catholic and Protestant prayers. INDEX OF PLATES AND WOOD-CUTS. VOL. I. 1. Copper-plate.-THE ELEVATION. To be placed as frontispiece to Vol. i. The lower part represents the Elevation of the Host, immediately after it has been consecrated. The upper portion of the engraving was suggested by various passages in the Apocalypse, respecting the mystic sacrifice of the Lamb, which St. John saw in vision. The beautiful passage extracted from the writings of the eloquent St. John Chrysostom, A.D. 398, which may be found at p. 142, will furnish an appropriate elucidation of the subject of this engraving. 2. Copper-plate.-THE CRUCIFIXION. To be placed to face p. 38. 3. Wood-cut. 4. Wood-cut. After Michael Angelo. The original design is in the possession of the reigning prince of Lucca, and deposited in the ducal palace of that city. Figure of Melchisedech, from an ancient mosaic in the Church of St. Vitalis at Ravenna, p. 186. The painting which usually ornaments the ceiling over the altar, in Greek churches, p. 243. During the time that M. de Nointel was ambassador of France at the Porte, he visited many of the churches belonging to the Greeks. Excepting in those which were extremely poor, he invariably observed a lamp suspended and burning before the place in which the blessed Sacrament was deposited. His attention was attracted by certain paintings representing sometimes an altar on which lay an open volume exhibiting these words: Take eat; this is my body;' at other times, a chalice, out of which Jesus Christ was issuing, under the form of a little infant, having the book of the Gospels opened, and showing the words of consecration on the right, and on the left the Eucharistic bread. In some churches, the ambassador observed, over the altar, a painting in which there appeared the chalice, the Host, and the book of the Gospels, with figures on both sides, each holding in his hand a scroll, on which was written, 'O God, our God, who hast sent us thy celestial bread which is the nourishment of the world.' The pictures that are to be more generally seen, are those which represent angels and saints adoring the Host made in the form of a human figure, and the chalice on an altar.— Le Brun. tom. vi. p. 660. 5. Two Woodcuts. Arculæ, or little boxes, used in the first ages of the Church, by the faithful, for carrying home the blessed Eucharist after Mass, p. 273. 6. Copper-plate. The various forms of the Host, or Eucharistic bread. To face p. 294. 1. Form of the Eucharistic bread in the Latin Church. 2. Its form in the Greek Church. Corban, or Eucharistic bread used by the Copts. |