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PASSIONTIDE AND

HOLY WEEK. PEEFACE. This Volume completes our explanation of the

Lenten Liturgy; but racter,

it

has

its

because of the subject

Church devotes the

last

own

it

special cha-

treats

The

of.

two weeks of Lent

the Sufferings and Death of Jesus

to

the Passion,

therefore, is the great subject of this portion of

our Liturgical Year.

Though the Volume be far

so bulky, yet

we

from having exhausted our subject.

are

"We

have been obliged to limit ourselves to a choice

from the riches offered to us in the magnificent Offices

of these fourteen days

and such a

was no easy matter, when it had to be made from such abundant Mysteries, teeming with sublime and pathetic teachings. We are choice

far all

from flattering ourselves that we have said that can be said of

Holy Week.

We

have

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