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LENT PREFACE. We

begin, with this Volume, the holy Season

of Lent

that

but such

is

we have found

the richness of it

its

Liturgy,

impossible to take our

the Saturday of the Fourth

readers beyond

Passion and Holy Weeks, which com-

Week.

plete the Forty

Days

of yearly penance, require

we could not Volume with-

to be treated at such length, that

have introduced them into this out making

it

inconveniently large.

The present Volume although

"

Volume are its

very

a

only comprises the

Season of Lent.

of the

" Lent

it

is

and

yet, the

first

We

full

one,

four weeks

have called

it

two weeks of the next

are also comprised in Lent, nay, they

most important and sacred

in giving the

we have

name

of

Lent to

word

But,

this first section,

followed the Liturgy

applies this

part.

to the first four

itself,

which

weeks only

giving to the two that remain the names of

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