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fervent in the great work of our own purification. Let us walk on courageously in. the path of Penance, so that each day the burden of our sins may be lightened, and, after we have partaken, by heartfelt compassion, of the cap of our Redeemer's Passion, our lips will be once more permitted to sing the songs of joy, and our hearts will thrill at Easter with the loud burst of the Church's Alleluia !

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