#sacramentary

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Ascension Eucharistic Preface 1 (P 26), Sacramentary, Pg. 425

“Christ, the mediator between God and man, judge of the world and Lord of All, has passed beyond our sight, not to abandon us but to be our hope. Christ is the beginning, the head of the Church; where he has gone, we hope to follow.”

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~ Sacramentary.

Place of origin: Weingarten, Germany

Date: 1215-1217

Binding: Original German gilt silver and jeweled book cover attached to compartmented wooden board; ornamented with figures of the Virgin and saints in high relief; possibly containing saint's relics.

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Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. I.2.4° 1, Sacramentarium Gregorianum Hadrianum, folio 1r.  Lorsch, middle or second half of the 9th century.

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Let us pray [in quiet remembrance of our need for redemption]. Father in heaven, the light of your truth bestows sight to the darkness of sinful eyes. May this season of repentance bring us the blessing of your forgiveness and the gift of your light. Grant this through Christ our Lord.

Alternative Opening Prayer from the Sacramentary for Ash Wednesday

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By the mystery of this water and wine may we come to share in the divinity of Christ, who humbled himself to share in our humanity.

what the presider/deacon of the Eucharist says while pouring water into the wine in the chalice at the offertory--quoted from the Sacramentary

this is one of my favorite excerpts from Mass. it's a shame the rubrics say this is to be said inaudibly