Editorial note — APPENDIX A CHANCELS

[Footnote 602: After the Sanctus, which, as we shall find, was performed with the full choir and the accompaniment of organs, came the secret, which embraced the whole Canon of the Mass, performed by the celebrant alone, and the celebration of the Holy Eucharist. 'It is called the secret because these things be hidden from us, since the nature of man can in no wise fully comprehend so great a mystery: for the denoting of which it is rightly performed secretly. To signify the same also, the priest when entering upon the secret is veiled as it were with the side curtains.' See other mystical reasons adduced in the remainder of this passage, Book IV, Chapter 35, and in Chapter 39 an account of the side curtains. Upon the use of these see also the Dublin Review, vol. x, p. 339. ] [Footnote 603: See Leviticus xvi; Exodus xxviii, xxxix, and xl.]