of kindred, gratitude, friendship, charity, zeal, compassion, and earnestly and confidently look to us for help.
To enable the faithful to make use of the Raccolta as a prayer-book for daily use, two indexes are added at the end. The first, translated from the original Italian edition, contains the various prayers and practices of devotion to which the Sovereign Pontiffs have attached indulgences, in the order in which they have been placed by the Sacred Congregation. The second index, added by the translator, contains the indulgenced prayers and practices arranged for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly devotions, as well as for the feasts and seasons of the ecclesiastical year. The proper use of this index will more than supply the want of the prayers, etc., usually added in former translations of the Raccolta. For, such prayers, etc., however excellent in themselves, were not enriched with indulgences; while, on the other hand, by choosing, with the aid of the supplementary index, prayers and pious practices in keeping with time
