Preface

This volume is chiefly upon the mysteries of the Ascension and Pentecost ; and the importance of the subject has obliged us to limit ourselves to the last three weeks of Paschal Time.

We have not inserted into this volume any saints' feasts. There are only a few days out of the twentyone, on which they could be kept : and moreover, had we inserted all that may be kept in the different years, we should have had the inconvenience of giving a great deal of matter which would very rarely be re^xii^d for uaeV » \0m readers ftsxjst therefore refer td the ]prfevioud toluind far any skint's day which may be : k^4^^^^ 'three weeks.

The volume "following^ thfr will Comprise Trinity Sunday, Corpus X^rati;>iih ;jisv octave, and the Feast of the saci^fifeari'of ^Testis. It will open the second, or immovable, portion of the liturgioal cycle. It is true, the time for keeping the abovenamed feasts depends upon Easter; but their object fftBFACE is of suoh a nature as to exolude them from ike movable oycle.

We again earnestly ask our readers to assist us by their prayers, that we may be enabled to bring to a happy termination the work we have undertaken for God's glory and the good of the faithful.