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PREFACE.

IV

but given a short compendium of beauties

and we

we proposed

sball

its

wonderful,

have gained the object

to ourselves, if these pages assist

the Faithful to relish the Divine Mystery of the Passion, and to follow the Church in her celebration of

it.

"We have not inserted in this Volume the Saints' Feasts,

which

may

be kept during Pas-

Week. The number of such Feasts is very owing to the variation of Easter-Tide and their insertion would have made our Volume inconveniently large. Our readers, therefore, " must refer to our Lent " for the Feasts of that Week. sion

great,