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Medicine and the Church

Note 113 — THE EUCHARIST AND BODILY WELL-BEING

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It would seem that the fuller form, ‘corpus et animum meam,’ was used by the priest at his own communion in the Mozarabic rite; and that a similar form was prescribed in the Cologne use of the fourteenth century for communicating the people. (Daniel, Codex Liturgicus, i. pp. 105, 147.) Otherwise the rule was as stated above. It is interesting to note, however, that the words ‘corpus et’ were very generally employed in administering to the sick in medieval England (see the York Manual, Surtees, lxiii. pp. 51, 52).

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