THE

GOLDEN PRAYER BOOK;

A MANUAL

OF

SPIRITUAL DEVOTION,

FOR CHRISTIANS WHO, LIVING IN THE WORLD,
ASPIRE TO PERFECTION:

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

A CHOICE COLLECTION OF ENGLISH HYMNS;
THE VESPER PSALMS AND HYMNS, LATIN AND ENGLISH,
FOR ALL SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS OF OBLIGATION
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR;

THE ENTIRE COMPLIN, LATIN AND ENGLISH;
A VERY FULL AND

COMPLETE SERVICE IN LATIN AND ENGLISH

FOR THE EXPOSITION AND BENEDICTION OF THE MOST
HOLY SACRAMENT;

THE HISTORICAL AND FIRST CATECHISMS;
THE CATHOLIC SERVANT'S APOLOGY, &c.;

ALL CAREFULLY COMPILED FROM THE MOST APPROVED SOURCES

BY A PRIEST.

Permissu Superiorum.

BIB

LONDON:

RICHARDSON AND SON, 147, STRAND; 9, CAPEL STREET, DUBLIN; AND DERBY..

185h 138.d.

39

Emprimatur

Westman., Die 31, Maji, 1856.

N. Janke.

PREFACE.

The compiler of this little volume is a manager of Schools, and finds it no easy matter to support: them. His congregation consists of poor people, very few of whom can afford to purchase the simplest doctrinal and devotional books, which they should possess. To reduce the expenditure of his schools and enable his congregation to purchase at a small expense, a book, from which they may learn what they ought to know, and by which they may be able to assist profitably at many of the Services of the Church, is the object of this small work. What additional value it may possess for all classes, the reader himself must determine.

OBSERVED BY THE CATHOLICS OF ENGLAND.

The Days of Obligation are in Small Capitals.-The Days of Devotion are in Italics.