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PREFACE. With

this

to us the second

Volume, we have opened

Year, and we begin the long

part of the Liturgical

period of the Time after Pentecost.

It treats

upon

the Feasts of the most holy Trinity, of Corpus Christi,

and of

These three

Sacred Heart of Jesus.

the

Feasts require to be explained apart. date with dependance on Easter detached,

if

able Cycle, year,

the

we

and

Their days yet,

they are

consider their object, from the

whose aim

is

to bring

and,

successive,

so

Move-

before us, each

to

speak,

historic

They come close upon the sublime drama, which has, by the gradual memories of our Lord's Mysteries.

presenting to us the facts of our Redeemer's History,

shown us the divine economy they come immediately

dogmatic teaching synthesis,

after,

of the

Eedemption

and give us a deep and

a teaching which

is

a marvellous

taking in the whole body of Christian

doctrine.

The Holy Ghost has come down upon the earth,

in

Faith being the one basis of

all

order to sanctify sanctification,

that the

Holy

it.

and the source of Spirit

love, it

was Faith

would make the starting-point