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TIME AFTER PENTECOST.

daily reflections, for we could have taken them from the Epistles and Gospels which, for a long time, were assigned to nearly every feria of this portion of the Year. But this would have obliged us to make our "Volume as large again as it is. "We shall, therefore, confine ourselves to an explanation of the Mass for The present usage of the Latin each Sunday. Church sets us the example for, dating from the 16th Century, she prescribes, as a general rule, that

should a feria, on which a saint's feast is kept, occur during the week, the Sunday's Mass is to be simply In order to supply the Faithful with repeated. suitable reflections for each of the weeks after Pentecost, we have taken the suggestion thus offered by the practice and rubrics of the Church for this holy Season, and have made our commentary on the several portions of the Sunday's Liturgy somewhat longer than will be found in the previous Volumes of the "Work.

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