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  • The first acolyte rings the bell at the Sanctus; once when the priest spreads his hands over the oblata, and three times at each elevation.

    How Important Is Ceremony? 2009

  • But to prevent the popes and emperors hereafter from coming to trouble them in their possessions, they offered their conquests to the Church under the name of oblata.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Impressio tam fortis in spiritibus humoribusque cerebri, ut extracta tota sanguinea massa, aegre exprimatur, et haec horrenda species melancholiae frequenter oblata mihi, omnes exercens, viros, juvenes, senes.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [316] “Observatum est a sacrificantibus, ut si hostia quæ ad aras duceretur, fuisset vehementer reluctata, ostendissetque se invitam altaribus admoveri, amoveretur, quia invito Deo eam offerri putabant; quæ vero stetisset oblata, hanc volenti numini dari existimabant.” —

    Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

  • * [6788] Observatum est a sacrificantibus, ut si hostia quæ ad aras duceretur, fuisset vehementer reluctata, ostendissetque se invitam altaribus admoveri, amoveretur, quia invito Deo eam offerri putabant; quæ vero stetisset oblata, hanc volenti numini dari existimabant.

    Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

  • * [3164] Observatum est a sacrificantibus, ut si hostia quæ ad aras duceretur, fuisset vehementer reluctata, ostendissetque se invitam altaribus admoveri, amoveretur, quia invito Deo eam offerri putabant; quæ vero stetisset oblata, hanc volenti numini dari existimabant.

    Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

  • At Milan the prayer called "Oratio super sindonem" (Sindon for the veil that covers the oblata) is said while the Offertory is being made and another "Oratio super oblata" follows after the Creed, just before the Preface.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Gregorian book these prayers have the title "Super oblata".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • In due time acolytes bore, in linen bags, or burses suspended from their necks, the oblata, or consecrated loaves from the altar to the bishops and priests in the sanctuary; that they might break the sacred species

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Later, at the Offertory, one finds "secudna pars augmenti hic super oblata".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

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