Saint Andrew the Apostle in Saint Mary’s Oratory, Wausau, WI
Deliver us, O Lord, we beseech thee, from all evils, past, present, and to come; and at the intercession of the blessed and glorious ever-Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with thy blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and with Andrew, and all the Saints, favourably grant peace in our days, that by the help of thine availing mercy we may ever both be free from sin and safe from all distress.
One element of the Communion Rite in Divine Worship: The Missal that has been retained from the Anglican missal tradition is the embolism, the prayer immediately following the Lord’s Prayer, and as it is found also in the older form of the Roman Rite. This short prayer, traditionally said by the Priest as he takes the paten into his right hand to collect the consecrated Host, first making the sign of the cross over himself with what Arthur Couratin, the Anglican liturgical scholar and Principal of Saint Stephen’s House, Oxford, apparently liked to call “the flash of the paten”, stands out as somewhat peculiar to ears more familiar with the amended version found in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite but, today, also for the specific reason that, together with Our Lady and Saint Peter and Saint Paul, it mentions the apostle Saint Andrew, whose feast we keep.
