The former is technically "exsufflation" ("blowing out") and the latter "insufflation" ("blowing in"), but ancient and medieval texts (followed by modern scholarship) make no consistent distinction in usage.
He breathes thrice upon the waters in the form of a cross, saying: Do You with Your mouth bless these pure waters: that besides their natural virtue of cleansing the body, they may also be effectual for purifying the soul. The Tridentine Catholic liturgy retained both an insufflation of the baptismal water and (like the present-day Orthodox and Maronite rites) an exsufflation of the candidate for baptism, right up to the 1960s: Protestant liturgies typically abandoned it very early on. Catholic liturgy post- Vatican II (the so-called novus ordo 1969) has largely done away with insufflation, except in a special rite for the consecration of chrism on Maundy Thursday. Ritual blowing occurs in the liturgies of catechumenate and baptism from a very early period and survives into the modern Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Maronite, and Coptic rites. In historical Christian practice, such blowing appears most prominently in the liturgy, and is connected almost exclusively with baptism and other ceremonies of Christian initiation, achieving its greatest popularity during periods in which such ceremonies were given a prophylactic or exorcistic significance, and were viewed as essential to the defeat of the devil or to the removal of the taint of original sin. In religious and magical practice, insufflation and exsufflation are ritual acts of blowing, breathing, hissing, or puffing that signify variously expulsion or renunciation of evil or of the devil (the Evil One), or infilling or blessing with good (especially, in religious use, with the Spirit or grace of God). For the medical practice of blowing substances into body cavities, see Insufflation (medicine). For multiple purchases please complete payment only after the adjusted invoice has been sent.This article is about insufflation in religion and magic rituals. Please See Pictures.ĭimensions: 5.5” x 3.75” x. Interesting!Ĭondition: Volumes II and IV are missing the title page three of the books have a name penciled onto the front blank page the box is beginning to separate at the seams. Included with the set is a small pamphlet of lay responses dated 1964.before the Vatican II changes. The copyright date is 1947 with a 1951 Imprimatur. Volume IV - “From the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost to Advent”Įach book is bound in rich, soft black leather and has 2 ribbon bookmarks. Volume III - “From Holy Saturday to the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost” Volume II - “From Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday”
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