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- ↑ Missale Romanum Mediolani. 1474. p. 451.
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- ↑ "Liber locorum communium: Prayer before Mass / Collect for Purity". 8 December 2012.
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- ↑ The Book of Common Prayer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 237.
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- ↑ The Sunday Service of the Methodists in North America: Bicentennial Edition. Nashville: Quarterly Review/The United Methodist Publishing House. p. 125.
- ↑ Missale Romanum. Bayerische Staatsbibliotek. 1577. p. 41.
- ↑ Central Board of Finance of the Church of England (1980). "The Order for Holy Communion Rite A". The Alternative Service Book 1980. Beccles: William Clowes. p. 119.
- ↑ The United Methodist Hymnal. Nashville: The United Methodist Publishing House. p. 6.
