Contents. A full INDEX, alphabetically arranged, will be found at TABLE of Days of Obligation and Devotion, Ple- I. Devotions for Morning and Evening, with Occa- II. PUBLIC OFFICES, PSALMS, &c. Ordinary of Mass, and Devotions for Mass Vespers for Sundays and Festivals Compline Penitential and other Psalms PAGE ix 1-49 Canticles: Te Deum, Benedictus III. DEVOTIONS ON THE BLESSED SACRAMENT, &c. Visits to Blessed Sacrament-Sacred Heart 190-214 V. Devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary-St. Jo- Litanies and Hymns VI. 241-302 303-360 1871 Feb. 5 Feb. 22 Apr. 9 May 18 May 28 June 8 NOTE. The last year in each of the above divisions will be Leap Year. A TABLE Of all the Feasts that are observed by the Catholics of England; All Sundays in the year. JANUARY 1 The Circumcision of our Lord, or New Year's-day. JUNE AUGUST 15 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. DECEMBER 25 Christmas-day. Ascension-day. Corpus Christi-day (being 1st Thursday after Trinity Sunday). DAYS OF DEVOTION. FEBRUARY 2 The Purification, or Candlemas-day. MARCH 19 St. Joseph, Spouse of the B. Virgin. APRIL JUNE 25 The Annunciation of the B. V. or Lady-day. 1 St. Philip and St. James, Apostles. 24 The Nativity of St. John, Baptist. 26 St. Anne, Mother of the B. Virgin. AUGUST 10 St. Lawrence, Martyr. 24 St. Bartholomew, Apostle. SEPTEMBER 8 The Nativity of the B. Virgin. OCTOBER 29 Michaelmas-day. 28 St. Simon and St. Jude. NOVEMBER 30 St. Andrew, Apostle. DECEMBER 8 The Conception of the B. Virgin. 21 St. Thomas, Apostle. 26 St. Stephen the Martyr. 27 St. John, Apostle. 28 Holy Innocents. 29 St. Thomas of Canterbury. Easter Monday and Tuesday. Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun-week. X FASTING DAYS. All the week-days of Lent, beginning on Ash-Wednesday. Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. 1. Next after the first Sunday in Lent. 3. Next after the fourteenth of September. 4. Next after the third Sunday of Advent. DAYS OF ABSTINENCE FROM FLESH-MEAT. All Fridays, except when Christmas-day falls on a Friday. VIGILS, WITH FASTS OF OBLIGATION ANNEXED TO THEM. 1. The Vigil of SS. Peter and Paul, June 28. 2. The Vigil of the Assumption, August 14. 3. The Vigil of All Saints, October 31. 4. The Vigil of the Nativity of our Lord, December 24. The solemnising of Marriage is forbidden from the first Sunday in Advent until after the Twelfth-day, and from the beginning of Lent until Low-Sunday. A Brief Statement of Christian Doctrine. The Ten Commandments of God.-Exodus xx. 1. I AM the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth. Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them : I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of fathers upon their children, unto the third and fourth generation of those that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of those that love me, and keep my commandments. 2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain. 3. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath-day. Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works; but on the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work on it, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid- servant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. 4. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayest |