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The Complete Manual of Catholic Piety: Containing a Selection of Fervent Prayers, Pious Reflection, 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.Gahan, William

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The Complete Manual of Catholic Piety: Containing a Selection of Fervent Prayers, Pious Reflection, 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.

Name: The Complete Manual of Catholic Piety: Containing a Selection of Fervent Prayers, Pious Reflection, 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.
Author: Gahan, William

Gahan, William

Catholic Church -- Liturgy; Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- English

Epistle.
1 _Corinthians_ iv. 1, 6.
_Brethren:_ Let a man so account of us as of the ministers
of Christ, and the dispensers of the mysteries of God. Here now
it is required amongst the dispensers that a man be found
faithful. But to me it is a very small thing to be judged by you,
or by man's day: but neither do I judge my own self. For I am not
conscious to myself of any thing: yet I am not hereby justified;
but he that judgeth me is the Lord. Therefore judge not before
the time till the Lord come; who both will bring to light the
hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsel of
hearts: and then shall every man have praise from God.


Gospel.
_Luke_ iii. 1, 6.
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar (Pontius
Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod Tetrarch of Galilee,
and Philip his brother Tetrarch of Iturea and the country of
Trachonitis, and Lysanias Tetrarch of Abilana, under the high
priests Annas and Caiphas) the word of the Lord came to John, the
son of Zachary, in the desert. And he came into all the country
about the Jordan, preaching the baptism of penance for the
remission of sins, as it was written in the book of the words of
Isaias the prophet: "A voice of one crying in the wilderness:
prepare ye the way of the Lord: make straight his paths: every
valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be
brought low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the
rough ways plain:" and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
Credo.

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                 Christmas Day.
             First Mass. At Midnight.

Epistle.
_Titus_ ii. 11, 15.
_Dearly beloved:_ The grace of God our Saviour hath appeared
to all men. Instructing us, that denying ungodliness, and worldly
desires, we should live soberly, and justly, and godly, in this
world, looking for the blessed hope, and coming of the glory of
the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: who gave himself for
us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and might cleanse
to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works. These
things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no
man despise thee.

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