Gospels for Lent and the passion of Christ

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Preface

In their Lenten pastorals, the Rt. Rev. Bishops remind the Rev. Pastors every year that the Holy Church wishes to have the Gospels for Lent explained to the faithful as much as time and circumstances permit.

These Gospels are explained best by referring them to the Passion and Death of our Saviour, — which is the best subject-matter for meditation during Lent. As on week-days the time for this exercise is greatly limited, it is necessary to reduce the explanation to a few words : and for a meditation a brief exposition is quite sufficient.

By the publication of these explanations of the Lenten Gospels, which have been used for a long time at divine service for the edification of the faithful, the author believes that he is rendering a service to his fellow-priests, and that he is placing in the hands of the faithful a book that will arouse them to fruitful meditation on the bitter Passion and Death of Jesus Christ and thus prepare

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them for the worthy fulfillment of their Easter duties.

May God's Blessing accompany it !

The Author.

Bruggen, on the feast of St. Gall, 1891.

Rendered from the German by Charles Cannon, 0. S. B.