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SEPTUAGESIMA. PREFACE. This third section of the Liturgical Year

much

two preceding ones The Season

shorter than the

and yet

it is

one

is

of real interest.

of Septuagesima has only three

weeks of the

Proper of

the

Time, and the Feasts of the

Saints are

far

less

frequent

offer

to

the Faithful

transition,

than at other

The Volume we now

periods of the Year.

may

inasmuch as

it

be called one of

includes the period

between two important Seasons,

We

and Lent.

them how

we

have endeavoured to teach

to spend these three

flatter ourselves that

show them, teresting

there

is

that,

weeks

and

our instructions will

even in this the least in-

portion of the

much

— Christmas

Ecclesiastical

to be learned.

They

Year,

will find

the Church persevering in carrying out the -*£V

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