Excerpt from Hierurgia, or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Vol. 1 of 2: With Notes and Dissertations Elucidating Its Doctrines and Ceremonies, and Numerous Illustrative Plates OF the more intelligent and inquiring amongst our Protestant fellow-countrymen, several have occa sionally manifested a desire to see a manual which not only contained the prayers, but explained the ceremonies, and elucidated the doctrine, of the Mass. The purport of these pages is to fill up such a deficiency in the number of those well composed and highly useful expositions of Catholic doctrine, which we already possess. The work is divided into two parts the first of which embraces the Ordinary of the Mass, in Latin and in English, to which are appended notes ex planatory of the ceremonies and the ritual of the Liturgy. The second part contains dissertations on the doctrine of the Eucharist, as a sacrifice, and a sacrament on the Invocation of Saints on Purgatory; on Images; on Ceremonies; on the Vestments, and the history of their origin and gradual change to their present form; and on the several points of ritual and disciplinary observance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.