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PREFACE.

IV

Passion Week and Holy Week.

Volume will, therefore, be and Holy Week.

Our next

called,

Passiontide

"We fervently hope that our readers, who

have entered into the

of the Church

spirit

during Sejptuagesima, will do the same for the Season which

now

begins

and

for this end,

they should attentively study the Lessons from

by the Church

for each

these Epistles and Gospels,

we have

the Scripture, selected day.

To

added our humble comments.

Such

is

the

richness of the instruction contained in these

venerable Lenten Instructions, that

have written a volume

we have been

for each

week

we might

and yet

obliged to content ourselves with

a few short words of explanation.

There are so

few persons, now-a-days, who have a knowledge of the Sacred Scriptures, that frequently,

what was most fathers,

is

familiar with our Catholic fore-

perfectly ignored

present generation.

by those

May God

of the

deign to bless

these feeble efforts, and give to our people that spirit of

understanding of holy things, which

supports faith, and makes practice fervent