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PREFACE.

The second volume of the Continuation now presented Liturgical Year,

to the Faithful concludes the least in that portion

Time.

The Feast

which

is

of Easter,

called the

owing

entire month's range for the

at

Proper of the

to its

having an

variation of its day,

changes, each year, the position of the Sundays after Pentecost,

by the same number

of days; so that

it is

utterly impossible to put anything like a concurrence

between these Sundays and the Proper of Saints.

We

intend, therefore, to give the Feast of Saints,

occurring between June and December, in a separate

Volume

for

whose completion we venture to ask

the prayers of our readers.

we

It

is

to their prayers that

attribute the blessing, which

this

work

God has given

these alone have given us courage

to

and

confidence in the task imposed upon us.

Whilst thus thanking them, we think

it

right to

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