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PASCHAL TIME.

PREFACE. With

this

Volume we begin the Season

of

Easter, wherein are accomplished the Mysteries

and looked forward

prepared

for,

Advent.

Such are the Liturgical

portion of the Christian Year, that it

riches of this

we have found

necessary to devote three Volumes to

The present Volume

but such a

Week

importance of the events

and the grandeur

it

it.

wholly taken up

A Week

with Easter Week. period

is

since

to,

is

indeed a short

with the

as this,

brings before us,

of the mysteries

it

celebrates,

at least, equivalent to any other section of our " Liturgical Year." We have abridged

is,

our explanations as

having concluded

much

Low Sunday, we

we have exceeded two ordinary Volumes. question to

as possible;

and

yet,

find that

thirds of one of our

Hence,

it

was out of the

add the remaining Weeks

the