This occurred before Terce
and the major Mass; the
mass-servers, monks and novices
filed in front of the celebrant who stood on the presbytery step,
and sprinkled them with newly blessed Holy Water. The lay-brothers
came forward, but it is not clear whether this meant
to the door of the rood screen, or that they too processed to the
presbytery step. The twelfth-century customary of the Order states
that the sacristan should
take some of the Holy Water to a stoop where the guests and familiars
were, and then do the same for the lay-brothers; this suggests that
the lay-brothers remained in their own zone.