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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