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The Lenten Manual and Companion for Passion Time and Holy Week
The Lenten Manual and Companion for Passion Time and Holy Week Author:William Walsh Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: KG / HARVARD University) LIBRARY Entered according to Act of Ctmgreiw, in the ynr One ThooMnd Eif ht Hondred and Fifty oae, Br Edwakd DtmaAV Bho... more »thkb. Ib the Clerk's Office of the Dutrict Court of the United Staten for ti Soutkvm District if New York. PASTORAL FOR LENT Deably Beloved Brethren, The holy and penitential season of Lent is about to commence; " the acceptable time" of grace, " the days of salvation " and mercy will soon begin; and our Holy Mother the Church, through the voice of her chief pastors, calls upon her faithful children throughout the whole world, " to turn to the Lord their God with their whole hearts, in fasting, in weeping, and in mourning." Charged as we have been by the venerable Head of the Church, with your pastoral superintendence, and being appointed so io "watch as to render anaccount of your souls," we feel as if at this moment the earnest admonition of the Prophet Joel were addressed to us :— " Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a Fast, call a solemn assembly, gather together the People, sanctify the Church, assemble the ancients, gather together the little ones, and them that suck at the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his bed, and the bride out of the bridal chamber. Between the porch and the altar, the ministers of the Lord shall weep and shall say: ' Spare, O Lord, spare thy people, and give not thine inheritance to reproach.'" We, therefore, sound in your ears this salutary and penitential trumpet; we proclaim this solemn Fast, hallowed as it is by Church authority, Apostolic observance, and Divine ordinance. We summon you more frequently to the House of God, that you may listen tohis divine law, and meditate upon its eternal truths; that you may recount before him, and " in the bitterness of you...« less