When there is no Credo, the thurifer genuflects with the subdeacon, after the celebrant has intoned the Oremus, and goes with him to the credence. When the sacred ministers return to the altar after the Credo, the thurifer fetches the thurible and boat and stands in plano on the Epistle side of the altar ready for the incense to be blessed as at the begining. After the celebrant has been incensed, the thurifer should accompany the deacon when he incenses the clergy and choir, and subdeacon. The thurifer will incense the deacon on his return to the sanctuary, and then incense, first, the M.C., then those in choir on the Gospel side collectively, with three single swings of the thurible in the center, to the left and to the right; and those on the Epistle side in the same manner; then the two acolytes collectively; and lastly the people.
To incense the faithful the thurifer, standing at the entrance to the sanctuary, will make a slight bow, to the middle first, then to the left and to the right, and with a single swing of the thurible will incense first the middle, then on the left, then on the right. After bowing slightly he will return to the sanctuary, and genuflect together with the torchbearers. With them he will retire either to the sacristy or the credence, and after the recitation of the Sanctis by the celebrant will precede the torchbearers to the sanctuary. Having genuflected between them, the thurifer will go to the Epistle side in plano, and stand, swinging his thurible, until at the Hanc igitur the master of ceremonies or one of the Acolytes puts in incense; then when the sacred ministers kneel, the thurifer will kneel on the lowest step on the Epistle side of the altar and at the Elevation incense the Holy Sacrament. After the consecration he goes to the middle and genuflecting with the torchbearers precedes them either to the sacristy or credence, and the thurible being no longer required, he puts it away, and then returns with the other servers to the sanctuary.
The Acolytes, bearing candles, walk on either side of the Crossbearer behind the thurifer, and when they reach the sanc-
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