Devout instructions on the epistles and gospels for the Sundays and holy days

Front matter

DEVOUT INSTRUCTIONS

ON THE

EPISTLES AND GOSPELS

PART I. Explanation of the Ecclesiastical Year 13

Instruction on Advent 21

First Sunday in Advent 23

Second " " : 28

Third " " 35

Fourth " " 42

Christmas Eve (Vigil of the Nativity) 61

Christmas 62

" Sunday after 73

Feast of the Circumcision (New Year's Day) 80

" " " Suuday after 84

Epiphany 86

First Sunday after Epiphany 93

Second " " " (Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus). . 104, 117

Fourth " " " 128

Septuagesima Sunday 141

Sexagesima Sunday 148

Quinquagesima Sunday 157

Lent 162

Ash-Wednesday 164

Thursday after Ash- Wednesday 168

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Friday after Ash- Wednesday 169

First Sunday in Lent 173

" W'nesday " 184

Second Sunday in Lent 194

" W'nesday " 204

Third Sunday in Lent 217

11 W'nesday " 228

Fourth Sunday in Lent 242

Passion Sunday » ,. 265

W'aesday " 275

Palm Sunday 287

Holy Week '. 297

Monday in Holy Week 298

Wednesday " " 307

Maundy Thursday 315

Good Friday 320

Holy Saturday 336

Easter Sunday 341

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Easter Monday 347

Low Sunday 357

Second Sunday after Easter 364

Third " " 369

Fourth " " 373

Fifth " " 378

Rogation Days 388

Ascension Day 390

Sixth Sunday after Easter 395

Pentecost 400

Whit-Monday 404

Whit-Tuesday 407

Wednesday (Ember-day) 413

Trinity Sunday 417

First Sunday after Pentecost 428

Corpus Christi 434

Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 445

Second Sunday after Pentecost 452

Third " " 459

Fourth " " 465

Fifth " " 471

Sixth l f " 478

Seventh " " 484

Eighth " " 491

Ninth " m 497

Tenth " " 503

Eleventh " " 509

Twelfth " tl ! 515

Thirteenth " '« 523

Fourteenth " " 533

Fifteenth " " 538

Sixteenth " " 546

Seventeenth " " 551

Ember Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday 559, 561, 562

Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost 564

Nineteenth " " 571

TVentieth " " 576

Twenty-first " " 584

Twenty-second " " 589

Twenty-third " " 594

Twenty-fourth " " 598

Feast of the Dedication of a Church 604

Review, showing the Connection of all the Gospels of the Year 615

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On the Veneration and Invocation of the Saints 621

St. Andrew Nov. 30 634

St. Francis Xavier Dec. 3 638

St. Nicholas " 6 644

Immaculate Conception " 8 649

St. Thomas " 21 655

St. Stephen " 26 659

Holy Innocents " 28 667

Last Day of the Year " 31 673

St. Valentine Jan. 7 675

St, Peter's Chair " 18 and Feb. 22 676

St. Sebastian " 20 678

Conversion of St. Paul " 25 682

St. Charles " 28 686

Purification of the Blessed Virgin . . .Feb. 2 688

St. Blase " 3 694

St. Matthias " 24 or 25 696

St. Joseph March 19 703

Renunciation " 25 710

St. Ludger. 717

St. Adalbert April 23 719

St, George " 23 721

St. Philip and St. James May 1 725

Invention of the Holy Cross " 3 729

St John Nepomucene. " 16 735

St Boniface June 5 738

St. Vitus and Companions " 15 743

St. Benno " 16 745

St, Aloysius " 21 746

Nativity of St. John the Baptist " 24 750

St Peter and St. Paul " 29 754

Visitation of the Blessed Virgin July 2 765

St. Ulric " 4 768

St. Willibald " 7 769

St. Kilian and his Companions 4 * 8 771

St Henry " 15 776

Feast of the Holy Scapular Third Sunday in July 781

St Mary Magdalen July 22 ' 783

St Liborius " 2:; 787

St. James the Greater " 25 789

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St. Anne July 26 792

St. Ignatius ■. " 31 796

St. Lawrence Aug. 10 797

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. . . " 15 800

St. Joachim Sunday after the Assumption. . . 805

St. Bartholomew Aug. 24 807

St. Augustine " 28 810

St. Stephen Sept. 2 812

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin " 8 816

Exaltation of the Holy Cross •. " 14 819

St. Matthew " 21 822

St. Rupert " 24 825

St. Michael " 29 827

Guardian Angel Oct. 2 829

Feast of the Rosary First Sunday in October 833

St. Francis of Assisi Oct. 4 839

St. Hedwige "17 843

St. Wendelin "22 846

St. Simon and St. Jude " 28 847

St. Wolfgang "31 851

All Saints.. . Nov. 1 854

All Souls " 2 860

St. Martin " 11 867

St. Leopold " 16 871

Presentation of the Blessed Virgin. . . " 24 874

St, Corbinian " 20 876

St. Catharine " 25 T 879

Patronage of St. Joseph Third Sunday after Easter 885

A Short Compendium of the Catechism of Father Peter Canisius, with References to Explanations of the Different Points in this

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