15. Communion of priest and people (if any), a short anthem called "Communio" being sung meanwhile. 16. Ablution of paten and chalice. 17. Post-communion, i.e. a concluding prayer. 18. Dismissal. The Canon of the Mass strictly ends with No. 9; Nos. 10-18 being an appendix to it. LITURGY OF CONSTANTINOPLE _Mass of the Catechumens. After preparation and vesting._ 1. The Deacon's Litany. 2. Three Anthems with accompanying prayers. 3. Little Entrance, i.e. ceremonial bringing in of the Book of the Gospels. 4. The Trisagion, i.e. an anthem with an accompanying prayer different from the Latin Sanctus or Tersanctus. 5. Epistle. 6. Gospel with a prayer preceding it. 7. Bidding prayer. 8. Prayer for catechumens. 9. Dismissal of catechumens. 10. Spreading of the corporal. _Mass of the Faithful._ 11. Prayers of the faithful. 12. Cherubic Hymn, "Let us who mystically represent the Cherubim, &c." not represented in the Latin liturgy. 13. Great Entrance, i.e. of the unconsecrated elements with incense and singing and intercessions. 14. Kiss of Peace. 15. Creed. 16. The Benediction, i.e. 2 Cor. xiii. 14. 17. Sursum corda. 18. Preface. 19. Sanctus, or Tersanctus, or "Triumphal Hymn." 20. Recital of Words of Institution, prefaced by recital of the Redemption. 21. The oblation. 22. The invocation or Epiklesis. 23. Intercession for the dead. 24. Intercession for the living. 25. The Lord's Prayer. 26. Prayer of humble access (a) for people (b) for priest. 27. Elevation with the invitation "Holy things to holy people." 28. Fraction. 29. Commixture. 30. Thanksgiving. 31. Benediction. In both these lists many interesting features of ceremonial, the use of incense, the infusion of warm water (Byzantine only), &c., have not been referred to. The lists must be regarded as skeletons only. There are six main families or groups of liturgies, four of them being of Eastern and two of them of Western origin and use. They are known either by the names of the apostles with whom they are traditionally connected, or by the names of the countries or cities in which they have been or are still in use. Group I. _The Syrian Rite_ (St James).--The principal liturgies to be enumerated under this group are the Clementine liturgy, so called from being found in the eighth book of the Apostolic Constitutions, which claim in their title, though erroneously, to have been compiled by St Clement, the 1st-century bishop of Rome; the Greek liturgy of St James; the Syriac liturgy of St James. Sixty-four more liturgies of this group have existed, the majority being still in existence. Their titles are given in F. E. Brightman's _Liturgies, Eastern and Western_ (1896), pp. lviii.-lxi.