The Ecclesiastical Year, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Ecclesiastical Year, Vol. 1: Its Festivals and Holy Seasons, To the Above Work Are Added, the Legends, or the Lives of the Saints, A Household Work for Instruction and Devotion Among Pagans, chronology had a deeper meaning than the mere counting of days, weeks, months and years. All important events of the past were connected by it, remarkable occurrences in the history of nations or of families were solemnly celebrated on their anniversaries, to perpetuate the memory of them. If this custom existed even among Pagans, why should Christians neglect it? The history of Christianity, as God's Kingdom upon earth restored to mankind by the Son of God, reveals to us in a more remarkable manner the wonderful deeds of an Almighty, All-wise, and All-benevolent Providence, than does the history of all the nations upon earth, it is, indeed, nothing but a great, uninterrupted series of extraordinary dispensations from the hands of God for the salvation of mankind. How could the Catholic, then, allow the many beautiful and significant Festivals and holy seasons, called the Ecclesiastical Year, to pass by, without exciting and reviving his religious feelings? The Festivals alone, however, do not produce such effects, each day does it, for on each day does the church place before us the life of some glorious Saint - as an example and guide. We will, therefore, present a work to the public, which combines in itself every quality to incite and strengthen true religious sentiment. That this work may correspond with its object, the translator has used as a basis the "Ecclesiastical Year, " of Rev. B. G. Bayerle, for the instruction on Sundays and Festivals during the ecclesiastical year, whilst the Legends of Alban Stolz furnish us with the lives of the Saints. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.