[Transcriber's notes: This work is derived from https://archive.org/details/CompleteManualOfCatholicPiety/page/n5. The Author's Side notes and comments are indented. In HTML they are also in a slightly smaller font, as in the original text.] {1} The Complete Manual Of Catholic Piety; Containing A Selection Of Fervent Prayers, Pious Reflections, And Solid Instructions, Adapted To Every State Of Life. To Which Is Annexed A Supplement, Containing Excellent And Approved Devotions, With The Epistles And Gospels For All The Sundays And Festivals Of The Year. By The Rev. William Gahan, O.S.A. DUBLIN: Published By James Duffy, 25, Anglesea Street. 1844. {2} Dublin: Printed By J. M. O'Toole, 33, Abbey-street. {3} Contents. Preface, -- 7. Table of Moveable Feasts, -- 10. Feasts and Fasts throughout the Year, -- 11. Unlawful Marriages, -- 12. Plenary Indulgences, -- 12. Manner of Lay Baptism, -- 14. Ecclesiastical Calendar, -- 14. Morning Prayer, -- 25. Acts of Faith, Hope, and Charity, -- 30. The Litany of the holy Name of Jesus, -- 33. The _Salva Regina_,--in verse, -- 36. The _Angelus Domini_, -- 37. Short Ejaculations in the course of the Day, -- 38. Prayers for Night, -- 39. The Litany of the Blessed Virgin, -- 44. The Hymn, _Te lucis ante terminum_, -- in English, -- 47. A Prayer before Sermon, Spiritual Reading, &c. -- 49. A Prayer before Mass, -- 50. Prayers at Mass, -- 56. Preparation for Confession, -- 80. A Protestation before the Examination of Conscience, -- 81. Prayers before the Examination of Conscience, -- 82. An Examination of Conscience, -- 85. Prayers before Confession, -- 92. A Prayer at receiving Absolution, -- 97. Prayers after Confession, -- 98. Instructions for Communion, -- 103. Prayers before Communion, -- 107. Acts of Virtue before Communion, -- 111. {4} A Prayer to obtain the effects of a Plenary Indulgence, -- 118. Prayers after Communion, -- 124. Acts of Virtue after Communion, -- 130. The Seven Penitential Psalms, -- 141. The Litany of Saints, -- 150. Motives to Perseverance in a Virtuous Life, -- 158. Devotions for every Day in the Week, -- 160. Pious Reflections for every Day in the Month; from the French of the Rev. F. Bouhours, -- 171. Meditations on the Articles of the Creed--to be used as a Devotion by Societies, Families, &c, -- 210. Anthem of the Blessed Virgin, _Salve Regina_, -- 224. An Universal Prayer for all things necessary to Salvation, -- 225. A Prayer for the Choice of a State of Life, -- 227. A Prayer for a Pregnant Woman, -- 227. Litany of Divine Providence, -- 229. Prayer of St. Bernard to the Blessed Virgin, -- 232. Litany of St. Winefrid, -- 233. The Golden Litany, -- 239.