It is important to observe how S. Cyril in this and the following sections associates the people with the Priest, using throughout the Plural “We.”  That this is intentional and significant, we may learn from a passage of S. Chrysostom In Epist. II. ad Cor. Homil. xviii. § 3. which is so interesting that we may be allowed to translate it at length:  “Sometimes moreover no difference is made between the Priest and those over whom he presides, as for example when we are to partake of the awful mysteries; for we are all alike deemed worthy of the same privileges:  not as in the Old Covenant some parts were eaten by the Priest, and others by the governed (ὁ ἀρχόμενος), and it was not lawful for the people to share in what the Priest partook of.  It is not so now:  but one Body is set before all, and one Cup.  And in the prayers also one may see the laity contributing much.  For the prayers on behalf of the Energumens, and on behalf of those in Penitence are offered in common both by the Priest and by themselves; and all say one prayer, a prayer that is full of compassion.  Again, after we have excluded from the sacred precincts those who are unable to partake of the Holy Table, there is another prayer to be made, and we all alike lie prostrate on the floor, and all alike rise up.  When again we are to receive and give a kiss of peace, we all alike embrace each other.  Again even amid the most tremendous Mysteries the Priest prays over the people, and the people over the Priest:  for the formula, “With Thy Spirit,” is nothing else than this.  The words of the Thanksgiving again are common:  for he does not give thanks alone, but also the whole people.  For having first got their answer, and they agreeing that ‘It is meet and right so to do,’ he then begins the thanksgiving.  And why wonder that the people sometimes speak with the Priest, when even with the very Cherubim and the Powers on high they send up those sacred hymns in common.  Now all this I have said in order that each of the common people (τῶν ἀρχομένων) also may be vigilant, that we may learn that we are all one Body, having only as much difference between one and another, as between members and members, and may not cast the whole work upon the Priests, but ourselves also care for the whole Church even as for a common Body.”