love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, &c. this is the greatest and the first commandment: and the second is like unto this, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. (b) This will be rendered intelligible by the following table:

Thou shalt love thy neigh 2nd TABLE. bour as thyself.

Thou shalt love the Lord thy 1st TABLE. God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength.

1st commandment: Thou shalt not

make to thyself any graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing in heaven above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the waters under the earth, thou shalt not adore them nor serve them.

2nd commandment:

Thou shalt

not take the name of the

Lord thy God in vain.

3rd commandment:

Remember

thou keep holy the sabbath day.

(4th commandment: Honour thy father and

thy mother.

5th commandment: Thou shalt not kill. 6th commandment: Thou shalt not commit adultery.

7th commandment: Thou shalt not steal. 8th commandment: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 9th commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife.

10th commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's goods.

(6) Mark xii. 30 and 31.

[6] and, when persons are so circumstanced as to be obliged to work upon them, they ought, as much as possible, to keep themselves recollected in the presence of God. » ..

III. [7] 2dly, The church commands all her children to assist at the holy sacrifice of the mass on all sundays and holydays. [8] So urgent is this precept, that none can absent themselves, unless from causes of necessity or charity, without incurring the guilt of mortal sin. [2] And it must be observed, that when, from sickness or any other just cause, persons cannot be present at mass, duty requires them to assist in spirit, by offering up their prayers during the time that mass is celebrating.

IV. [10] 3dly, The church commands all her children, as soon as they have arrived at the years of discretion, so as to be capable of mortal sin, to confess their sins to their pastors, at least once in every year.

V. [10] 3dly, The church commands all, as soon as they are capable of discerning the body of our Lord, to receive worthily the holy eucharist at the time of easter, that is, between palm sunday and low sunday; a duty which, if neglected at that time, is binding afterwards until it be fulfilled. [12] Not that she wishes her children to suppose that this is all that she recommends; for she exhorts them all to approach frequently, with worthy dispositions to this fountain of grace, as the only secure means of avoiding mortal sin and working out their salvation.

VI. [13] 5thly, The church commands all her children, that have attained the use of reason, to observe the days of abstinence, and all, who have

arrived at the age of twenty-one years, to fast on certain days, unless from just and reasonable cause they be exempt. [14] Abstinence consists in refraining on certain days from the use of flesh meat. [15] Fasting is taking only one full meal in the day, and that not before mid-day. [16] Besides this full meal, however, according to the present discipline of the church, a very small quantity is allowed to be taken in a morning, and what is called a collation at night, which last even must not exceed one quarter or at most one third of a meal; [17] and neither that which is taken in the morning nor the evening co lation, must consist either of fish, eggs, butter, cheese, or milk. [18] The days of abstinence are 1st, all fridays and saturdays throughout the year, except christmas day should happen to fall on either of them: 2ndly, all the sundays of lent: 3dly, The twenty-fifth day of April, unless it fall in easter week or upon a sunday: 4hly, the three days before ascension day, which are called rogation days; and 5thly, all the fasting days throughout the year. (a)

VII. [19] 6hly, The church forbids her chil dren to marry within the first four degrees of con

(a) Of late years it has been customary for the vicars apostolic in England to grant permission to the faithful to eat flesh-meat upon the Sundays in Lent as also on the Tuesdays and Thursdays (but that only once in 'he day even to those who are not obliged to fast) between the first and last Sundays in Lent. This, however, is an indulgence wholly unknown to our immediate forefathers, and which, if it be judged expedient, may at any time be withheld.

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sanguinity, or to solemnize marriage between the first sunday of advent and the feast of the epiphany inclusively, and from ash-wednesday until after low sunday.(a).

CHAPTER THE SIXTH.

1. Baptism, the duty of parents.~]| Infants in danger death. 111. Godfathers and godmothers.-IV. Conditional baptism.

1, 11 Having, in the former part of this treatise, laid down the doctrine of the catholic church relative to what we are bound to believe concerning the sacraments, I come now to explain

(a) The compiler here wishes to notice, that, in his statement of the precepts of the church, he has deviated a lit le from the method adopted in the English catholic catechisms, and followed pretty nearly that of the catechisms of France and Germany. 1st. In the English Catechism, the precept of keeping certain_appointed days holy, and that of hearing mass on sundays and holidays are united in one; this he concieves to be less correct than the making them, as the really are, two distinct precepts 2ndly, He has omitted altogether the precept of paying tithes to pastors, because, in this country, all are compelled by law to pay tythes to the clergy of the established church. English catholic congregations, therefore, are not commanded to pay tythes, or a tenth part of the fruits of the earth, to their respective pastors, though they are required, by the law of nature, to afford them, as far as lies in their power, the means of support becoming their station in life.

the practical duties appertaining to each of them. First therefore, with regard to baptism, it is the duty of parents to see that their children are baptized as early as possible after they are born, a duty, which is the more urgent on account of the many dangers to which infants are exposed of sudden death: parents, therefore, should never defer the sending their children to be baptized beyond the first sunday after they are born, or even earlier, if there be any apparent danger of death.

II [2] Should a child be in danger of death, and no priest at band to baptize it, any layman or woman may do it: although, [3] when any other person can be procured, a father or mother should never baptize their own child. [4] The manner of baptizing a child in danger of death is, to pour common water on its forehead, so that the water will run upon its skin, and to say at the same time these words: I baptize thee, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. [5] Should a child, that has been thus baptized, afterwards recover, it must be taken to the chapel to have the ceremonies supplied, when it must be certified to the priest that it has already received private baptism.

III When a child is solemnly baptized, that is, with the accompanying ceremonies, it must have either a godfather or godmother; or it may have both, but not more. [6] Parents must always se lect as sponsors for their children, catholics who are instructed in their duty, who are of good moral conduct, and who practise the duties of religion.