MANUAL OF PRAYERS

FOR THE USE OF

THE CATHOLIC LAITY.

THE OFFICIAL PRAYER BOOK

OF THE

CATHOLIC CHURCH.

PREPARED AND PUBLISHED

BY ORDER OF THE

THIRD PLENARY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE.

NEW YORK:

CHRISTIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION PUBLISHING COMPANY,
61 WEST 15TH STREET.

London: BURNS & OATES, Limited.

19488.96

775-8483

C9489.876

The Prayer Book ordered by the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore,
having been diligently compiled and examined, is hereby approved.

James Card. Gibbery

Archbishop of Baltimore,

BALTIMORE, May 17, 1889.

Apostelic Delegate.

Imprimatur,

+ Michael Augustinus,
Archiep. has Eborac.

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Copyright, 1888,

BY J. W. WENTWORTH.

All rights reserved, and making extracts or selections from this boo!:
without the proper permission is strictly prohibited.

Copyright, 1896,

BY THE CHRIStian Press Association Publishing Company,

HARI

CAMBRIDGE, MASS
Rev. matchew J. Faliburing.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

(For full alphabetical Index see end of book.)

Devotions to which Indulgences are attached are marked thus: (i)

Calendar,
Movable Feasts, Tables of,
Days of Obligation and Devotion,
Abridgment of Christian Doctrine,
Christian Faith and Practice,
Morning Prayers (Prime),

Another Form,

Acts of Faith, Hope, etc.,
Angelus, etc.,

Grace before and after Meals,

Litanies of the Holy Name and of Loreto,

Evening Prayers (Compline),

Another Form,

Devotions for Mass,

Manner of Serving Mass,

Blessing of Water and Asperges,

Ordinary of the Mass,

The Te Deum, etc.,

Vespers,