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[ The Elder then says the Lord`s Prayer and the postulant follow him phrase by phrase after which the
Elder
will say :
"We deliver you this Holy Prayer that you may receive it of us and of God and of the Church,
that you may have the power to say it all your life, day and night, alone or in company, and that you must
never eat or drink without first saying it. If you omit to do so you must do penance."
The Postulant replies;
"I receive it of you and of the Church"
Then he turns and give thanks and make his melioramentum (bowing at the feet of the Elder).
Then the Elder asks the postulant,
"My brother, do you desire to give yourself to our faith?"
The postulant being asked three times, and answering "yes" on all, makes a bow and advances one step
between each,
"Bless me",
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[...] you wish to receive the spritual baptism whereby the Holy Spirit is given in the Church of God with
the
Holy Prayer by the laying on of hands of the Good Men. Of this Baptism Our Lord Jesus Christ said in
the
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew ;
"Go ye and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit ; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have
commanded you;
and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world"
And in the Gospel of Saint Mark he said,
"Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptised
shall be
saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned".
And in the Gospel fo Saint John He said to Nicodemus,
"Verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and the spirit he cannot enter into the
Kingdom of God"
And John the Baptist spoke of this baptism when he said,
"I indeed baptize you with water, but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not
worthy
to loosen ; he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire".
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This gift of the Holy Spirit by the laying on of hands has been instituted by Jesus Christ as Saint Luke
tells,
and he said that his friends would confer it as Saint Mark says,
"They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover"
And Ananias conferred this Baptism on Saint Paul when he was converted.
For Saint Luke says thus in the Acts of the Apostles,
"Now when the Apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God
they sent
unto them Peter and John, who when they were come down, prayed for them that they might receive of
the
Holy Spirit , for as yet He was fallen upon none of them. "
Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. This Holy Baptism by which the
Holy Spirit
is given the Church of God has kept from the Apostles until now, and it has come from the Good Men to
the
Good Men until now and shall do till the end of the world
And you must understand that power is given to the Church of God to bind and to loose, to forgive sins
and to retain them, as Christ said in the Gospel of Saint John,
"As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this he breathed on them and
saith
unto them "Receive Ye the Holy Ghost" ; whatsoever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them, and
whatsoever
sins ye regain, they are regained"
And in the Gospel of Saint Matthew he said to Simon Peter,
"I say unto thee that thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall
not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou
shalt
bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in
heaven."
and again
"If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of
my Father
which is in Heaven. For wheresoever two or three are gathered in my name there am I in the midst of
them"
And in another place he said,
"Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils"
And in the Gospel of Saint John he said,
"He that believeth on me, the works that I do he shall do also"
and in the Gospel of Saint Mark he said,
"These signs shall follow them that believe ; in my name shall they cast out devils,they shall speak with
new tongues, they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them,
they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover"
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"Parcite Nobis. For all the sins I have ver done in thought, word and deed. I ask pardon of God,
of the Church, and of you all."
Assembly of Cathars and Witnesses:
"By God and by us and by the Church, may your sins be forgiven and we pray God to forgive you them"
Adoremus, Patrem, et Filium et Spiritum Sanctam.
Adoremus, Patrem, et Filium et Spiritum Sanctam.
Adoremus, Patrem, et Filium et Spiritum Sanctam.