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644 be Sevma Psnitcbtiui Psdm
AM. Ne re~piniscaris Ant. Remember not, 0
Domine, delicla nastra Lord, our offenses, nor
vel parenturn mtrorum, those of our parents;
Peque vindictam sumas Pnd take not revenge
de peccatis nostris. of our sins.
Indulgence of 50 days. -St. Pius V, April 5, 1571.
D m o many weeks of extreme languor the Psalms
have never been out of my hands. I wag never
wearied of reading over and over thase sublime lamentations,
those flights of hope, those supplications full of love,
which answer to all the wants and all the miseries of human
nature. It is nearly three thousand pears since a king composed
those song in his days of repentance and desolation;
and we still find in them the expression of our deepest
anguish, and the consolation of our sorrows. The priest
recites them daily; thousands of monasteries have been
founded in order that these psalms might be chanted at
every hour, and that this voice of supplication might never
be silent. The Gospel alone 5 superior to the hymns of
David, and this only because it is their fulfilment, because
all the yearnings, all the ardors, dl the holy impatience of
the prophet find their accomplishment in the Redeemer
issued of his race. - OWN.
An excellent daily spihal reading wq$d be a combination
of extracts from Holy Scripture, The Imitation
of Christ" by Thomas d Kempis, and '(The Lives of the
Saints" (or St. Francis de Sales' "Devout Life"). A very
serviceable book for this purpose is Le Masson's ''Sp~ntual
Reading for Every Day," edited by Kenelm Digby Best
sf the Oratory af Sqmt Phili~ Neri.
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