20 ?EF?C?.. accordingly chosou instead, both as serving to correct any such apparent disproportion in the Hymns, and also with the view of rendering them more readily serviceable for daily use, in the event of any person desiring so to employ them By its aid, the very youngest readers will be able to follow, with suf- ficient exactuess, the course of the ecclesiastical year; and happy indeed will the Translator be, if this little book may thus be permitted to have some share in fostering, among the youth of our CathoLic Seminaries, that ecclesiastical spirit, which finds its true home nowhere but in the Catholic heart, and which, if it be not necessary to the soul, is assuredly a most lovely grace, and a powerful anxiliary of the FsJth. It will be observed, that on certain special Feasts, after a reference to the proper hymus in the Breviary, reference is also made, in the Table, to the Sequence for the day, where there happeus to be one, as also to the Hymns from various source& The object of this is, to give, at a single glance, all the Hymns in the Collection that belong to any particular Day, and, at the same time, to render the Calendar a complete table of reference to the entire ceutent? of the volume.
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