Elevation in the Eucharist: Its History and Rationale (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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But further, a distinction has been drawn, in the recent Report of the Royal Commimion, between extreme elevation to evoke worship, and the slight lifting up which has come to be practised after con secration at the words 'do this in remembrance of The history of elevation, as practised at these words, is a very complicated one, but it does not appear, from any of the evidence adduced in this volume, that moderate elevation had, at this particular point of the service, any peculiar significance other than that of the ordinary post-consecration form. The slighter elevation of the Chalice, which was almost universally enjoined, arose out of special reasons which are definitely named, and not from any variation in the meaning of the ceremony'.

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