[3] "Sacerdos ne omittat ad Eucharistici Sacrificii oblationem sese piis precibus disponere, eoque expleto, gratias Deo pro tanto beneficio agere" (Canon 810).
[4] The alternative answer, often given, that the priest can make his preparation and thanksgiving in his own room can hardly be taken seriously. It is possible that there are some few priests who do this; but the ordinary rule is that if the preparation and thanksgiving are not made in the church, they are either not made at all, or at least curtailed to very small dimensions.
[5] Preparation for Death, Father Coffin's Edition, p. xv.
[6] The Priest, etc., p. 26.
[7] Preparation for Death, Father Coffin's Translation, p. xv.
[8] An excellent explanation of the Jesuit and the Sulpician systems can be found in Father Faber's Growth in Holiness, chapter xv.
[9] Growth, etc., p. 270.
[10] Preparation for Death, Father Coffin's Translation, p. xvi.
[11] Thus, for example, the Confiteor in Prime and Compline were given in the form used in choir, with no reference to how it was to be said in private recitation. This has now been supplied. And so on in other instances. Even now the choir rubrics are often given without comment—as, for example, that which prescribes the Preces at Prime to be said in Lent, "flexis genibus," which of course does not refer to private recitation.