This is a feeble article of faith to begin with, but it helps to push my pen through this exordium and what now follows.

It is probable that the custom of reserving for the aliturgic days, and permitting the people to communicate of the presanctified, i.e. the previously consecrated, gifts, in order to satisfy this desire, arose in the Greek Church not later than the earlier part of the seventh century.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

The house was situated in a leafy alcove.