OR, A POSEY OF PRAYERS, SELECTED FROM Catholic Authors. SEVENTEENTH EDITION. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, GOTHER'S INSTRUCTIONS AND DEVOTIONS FOR CONFESSION AND COMMUNION. The just man's prayer is the key o heaven; our petitions ST. AUGUSTINE. LONDON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY KEATING AND BROWN, 38, DUKE-STREET, GROSVENOR SQUARE, AND TABLE OF MOVEABLE FEASTS. Ash Year of our Wednesday. Lord. 3 Sun. 1st SunSunday Sunday. Pent Advent. after day of Easter Whit 1832 Mar. 7 Apr. 1833 Feb. 20 Apr. 1834 Feb. 12 Mar. 1835 Mar. 4 Apr. 1836 Feb. 17 Apr. 1837 Feb. 8 Mar. 1838 Feb. 28 Apr. 1839 Feb. 13 Mar. 1840 Mar. 4 Apr. 1841 Feb. 24 Apr. 1842 Feb. 9 Mar. 1843 Mar. 1 Apr. 1844 Feb. 21 Apr. 1845 Feb. Mar. 1846 Feb. 25 Apr. 1847 Feb. 27 Apr. 1848 Mar. 8 Apr. 1849 Feb. 21 Apr. 1850 Feb. 13 Mar. 1851 Mar. 5 Apr. 1852 Feb. 25 Apr. 1853 Feb. 9 Mar. 1854 Mar. 1 Apr. 1855 Feb. 21 Apr. 1856 Feb. 6 Mar. 1857 Feb. 25 Apr. 1858 Feb. 17 Apr. 24 22 June 10 7 May 26 26 30 May 18 27 19 June 7 24 3 May 22 26 26 May 14 28 15 June 3 25 31 May 19 27 19 June 7 24 11 May 30 25 27 May 15 27 16 June 4 25 7 May 26 26 23 May 11 28 12 May 31 25 4 May 23 26 23 June 11 24 8 May 27 26 31 May 19 27 20 June 8 24 11 May 30 21 27 May, 15 27 16 June 4 25 8 May 27 26 23 May 11 28 12 May 31 4 May 23 25 26 Nov. 30 Dec. 3 2 Table of Feasts, &c. throughout the Year. N.B. Those of Obligation are in Capitals. 26 St. Ann. January. 1 CIRCUMCISION. 6 EPIPHANY. February. '2 Purification. 24 St. Matthias. 25 In Leap Year. March. 19 St. Joseph. 25 Annunciation of the B.V. April. 23 St. George. May. 1 SS. Philip and James. 3 Finding of the Holy Cross. August. September. 29 St. Michael. October. SS. Simon and Jude. ALL SAINTS. St. Andrew. July. 25 St. James. 28 1 30 December. Concept. B. V. M. 8 21 St. Thomas. 25 CHRISTMAS DAY June. 24 Nativity of St. John 26 St. Stephen. 27 St. John. H. Innocents. 29 St. Thomas of Canter bury. Baptist. 29 SS. PETER and PAUL 28 Moveable Feasts. EASTER - MONDAY, ASCENSION - DAY WHITSUN-MONDAY, and CORPUS CHRISTI DAY. N.B. Easter-Tuesday and Whitsun-Tuesday are days of Devotion. Fasting Days. 1. The forty Days of Lent. 2. The Ember-Days, being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday of the first Week in Lent; of Whitsun-Week; of the third Week in September; and of the third Week in Advent. 3. The Wednesdays and Fridays of the four Weeks in Advent. 4. The Vigils or Eves of Whitsuntide; of the Feast of SS. Peter and Paul; of the Assumption of the B. V. M.; of All Saints; and of Christmas day. N. B. When any fasting-day falls upon a Sunday, it is to be observed on the Saturday be fore. Days of Abstinence. 1. The Sundays in Lent. 2. The Fridays out of Lent; but should Christmas-day fall upon a Friday, it is not a day of abstinence. N. B. The Catholic Church commands all her children upon Sundays and Holidays to be present at the great Eucharistic Sacrifice, which we call the Mass, and to rest from servile work on these days, and to keep them holy. 2dly, She commands them to abstain from flesh, on all days of fasting and abstinence; and on fasting days to eat but one meal. 3dly, She commands them to confess their sins to their pastor at least once a year. 4thly, She commands them to receive the blessed sacrament at least once a year, and that at Easter, viz. between Palm-Sunday and Low-Sunday, as may be seen from the following Extract. The 4th Council of Lateran, Can. 21, ordains, "That every one of the faithful of both sexes, "after they come to the years of discretion, shall "in private faithfully confess all their sins, at "least once a year, to their own pastor; and "take care to fulfil, to the best of their power, "the penance enjoined them; receiving reve"rently, at least at Easter, the Sacrament of the "Eucharist, unless, perhaps, by the counsel of "their pastor, for some reasonable cause, they "judge it proper to abstain from it for a time; "otherwise, let them be excluded out of the "Church, whilst living, and when they die, be "deprived of Christian burial." |