context1: The congregation, which has been seated during this preparatory rite, rises, and the priest gives an exhortation to pray: Pray, brethren, that our sacrifice may be acceptable to <strong>God</strong>, the almighty <strong>Father</strong>. The congregation responds: May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands, for the praise and glory of his name, for our good, and the good of all his Church. The priest then pronounces the variable prayer over the gifts that have been set aside.
context2: Her old nurse helped her seduce him in darkness, and she fell pregnant. However, when her <strong>father</strong> learnt of her deception he was appalled and banished her. Taking pity on her, a <strong>god</strong> transformed her into a tree; hearing a child cry within the tree, some passersby delivered her baby Adonis, who was later the consort of Aphrodite.