Note 103 — CHAP. V.
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Footnote 103:
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"As the communion," says Mabillon "is of the nature of a sacred banquet, it consists of food and drink; hence the other part of the banquet, viz. drink, was supplied by wine, mixed with water, but sanctified by a particle of the B. Sacrament" See for the service of this day a MS. Pontifical of the church of Apamea in Syria ap. Martene t. 3, p. 132. It is found with little variation also in the Gelasian Sacramentary, in a very ancient Ordo Romanus, and some MSS. cited by Martene. In the Roman church, as Amalarius was informed by the Roman archdeacon "at the station no one communicated". In many other churches there was general communion; this is prescribed by the church during this holy season.