the stole hanging down in front, and the chasuble: their hands
are anointed with oil of catechumens, and they receive a chalice
containing wine and water, a paten with a host, and power to say
mass. (Luke XXII, 19). After offerings of candle have been made to the
ordaining Bishop, the new priests join him in saying mass[136]: and
after the newly-ordained and baptised have communicated, the priests
profess their faith by reciting the apostles' creed; they receive
power to forgive and retain sins (John XX, 22, 23), they promise
reverence and obedience to their ecclesiastical superior, and receive
the bishops blessing, who then directs that masses and prayers be
said by those whom he has ordained, and recommends himself to their
prayers. In other respects the mass is similar to that of the Papal
chapel[137]. Morcelli in his calendar in summing up the ceremonies
of this day, having mentioned the station at S. John Lateran's, the
baptism of Jews and Turks, and mass in the papal chapel, says that
at the _Gloria, tonitrus tormentorum ab Arce fiunt, AEra templorum ac
Turium sonant._
[Sidenote: Armenian Catholics:]
Having spoken of the ceremonies of the Vatican and S. John Lateran's,
we might consider our task as completed[138]. Yet one more _funzione_
attracts our countrymen on this day; and we are therefore unwilling to
bid them farewell, before it is ended. Come then to S. Biagio or to S.
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