The liturgical year, tr. by L. Shepherd. Continuation [by L. Fromage].

THE SUNDAYS AFTER PENTECOST
from the 4th to the 24th.

EPISTLE. (Rom. viii.) How is it, that all

created nature is in bondage, on account of man's
sin;-how it longs for its restoration, which is to
be when man's Deliverance is completed.

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GOSPEL. (St. Luke, v.) On the mysteries
contained in the two miraculous fishings men-
tioned by the Evangelists.-On Schism.

The 5th Sunday,

EPISTLE.(1 St. Pet. iii.) Jesus came amongst
us to constitute a glorious City, wherein his
Eternal Father might be worthily praised and
loved. We are the living stones of the Temple
of God; hence, necessity of Union between the
members of the Church.-Love for each other.—
Vision of Hermas' tower.

GOSPEL.-(St. Matth, v.) How the Law had
got corrupted by the Scribes and Pharisees.-It
is only the New Law that deals with sins of
thought.-Jewish casuistry, how narrow.-Jesus
came to teach us the whole Truth.-What was
the Tribunal of Judgment; of Council.
The 6th Sunday,

EPISTLE.(Rom. vi.) St. Paul, finding Israel
obstinate, turns to us Gentiles.-The Epistles for
the remainder of these Post-Pentecostal Sundays
are all taken from those of St. Paul, and in the
order given them in Bible.-How tender should
be our devotion to St. Paul.-What the Church
is in St. Paul's estimation.-What is the
Christian life in the same Apostle's idea.

GOSPEL.-(St. Mark viii.) The feeding 4000
in the desert. Jesus, having cured the Hæmor-
rhoissa, the Gentile, now feeds her.-St. Ambrose
on the 5 and 7 loaves.-On the deep teaching
involved in the circumstance of the Desert.
The 7th Sunday,

EPISTLE.(Rom. vi.) Further development
on the essence of Christian life.-Jesus's Death
and Burial produced in us by our Baptism.-Let
us serve justice, now, with as much earnestness
as we once served sin; true conversion does not
change our energy of character; children of world
set us a lesson here.-St. Augustine on Jacob's
working for Rachel.

GOSPEL.-(St. Matth. vii.) Beware of false
Prophets -Israel is a voluntary prey, loving to
be deceived.-Seeks Christ in every upstart, be-
cause he would not have the true One.-He is
drawing the Romans to his destruction.-The
true Church is safely on the rock of Rome.-The

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guarantee for every individual, as well as for the
Church at large, is firm Faith.-As the Saints of
old, so now, we must have our faith tried; heresy
is always to be found busy.-The keeping close
to the Church, keeps us from false prophets.

The 8th Sunday,

INTRODUCTION.-Farewell to Jerusalem by the

Little Flock, just before Roman siege.-How
beautiful was Jerusalem at that time!-What a
pang to leave the lovely City for ever! Mary had
lived in yon Temple; Jesus had so often_visited
it !-The strange voices heard, and the Eastern
Gate opening of itself.

EPISTLE. (Rom. viii.) We are debtors, not to

the flesh, but to the Spirit:-the fecundity of the

Church; the Spirit works, unitedly with the Church.

-The missioners of the Church to particular

congregations.-Terrible trial when these mission-

ers sow shrivelled seeds of minced truths!-Even

then, the Church's Liturgy comes with its mighty

power to souls.-How admirably a christian

would be instructed that studied his missal !-

Epitome of the last few Sundays' rich teaching.-

The leading idea of St. Paul's Epistle to the

Romans.-How terrible the lot of the Jews, who

held to their Law, but rejected Him who gave

the Law.

GOSPEL (St. Luke, xvi.) The unjust Steward.

-Jesus is the rich Lord; everything belongs to
Him. He divides his goods; the eternal, he
makes entirely over to us; not so the temporal.

-The proper use of temporal goods.-How St.
Jerome applies this parable to the Synagogue.

The 9th Sunday,

Jesus's weeping over Jerusalem.--Events which

preceded the destruction of the City.

EPISTLE.-(1 Cor. x.) The misery of the Jew-
ish infidelity to Grace, a lesson to us Gentiles.--
God is faithful, never suffering us to be tempted
beyond our strength.-It was unbelief ruined
Jews; we must cultivate vigorous Faith.-Our
sins would exceed those of Israel.

GOSPEL.-(St. Luke, xix.) The time of thy
Visitation !-Destruction of Jerusalem ; its
history and lessons. Description and teaching.

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The 10th Sunday

EPISTLE.-(1 Cor. xii.) On the manifold miracu-
lous workings of the Holy Ghost in the early
beginnings of the Church.-On Graces gratuitously
given, and those which make the receiver pleasing
to God; their difference.-Miraculous gifts now-
a-days :-how we are to appreciate them.

GOSPEL.-(St. Luke, xviii.) The Publican and
Pharisee. Ven. Bede's explanation; the Pharisee
in the Jewish people; the Publican, the Gentile.
-How appropriately the lesson on Humility fol-
lows the history of Destruction of Jerusalem !—
Humility grows, as man approaches nigher to
God.-How men debase themselves by Pride.-
It is the Little Children alone that enter the
kingdom.-Humility is intensest in heaven.
The 11th Sunday,

EPISTLE.--(1 Cor. xv.) St. Paul here continues
the subject of Humility, calling himself the least
of the Apostles.-The greatest Saint has need to
think of his past sins. St. Augustine's book of
Confessions is a model.-Humility makes us
grateful for graces received,

GOSPEL.-(St. Mark, vii.) The Deaf and
Dumb man.-This miraculous cure is full of
mystery.—The administration of Baptism repeats
these mysterious circumstances.-Exquisite
teaching. One detail of this cure reminds God's
servants how they should seek to be unknown.
The 12th Sunday,

EPISTLE.-(2 Cor. iii.) How the glory of the
Old Ministration is surpassed by that of the New.
-Each member of Christ may gain all the glory
he chooses to gain.-Worldlings are senseless in
seeking glory in temporal things.-What a fund
of instruction we should acquire each Year by
reading the whole chapter of Scripture from
which the Liturgy extracts her Epistles and
Gospels. The glory of the Mosaic dispensation
described; what we are taught by the veil worn
by Moses. How splendid is the glory of each of
the Faithful under the New Covenant.

GOSPEL.-(St. Luke, x.) The Good Samaritan.
-Continuation of the comparison of the Two
Testaments.-Who are the Kings who desired to

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see what we now see.-How immensely grand

these sights are.-A word on the stupendous

heights of illumination to which God raises some

faithful souls. And yet, the greatest proof of

fidelity is, the keeping the Commandments, all

of which are comprised in Love.-What is meant

by Neighbour; and how Jesus shows it to us by

the parable of the Good Samaritan.

The 13th Sunday,

EPISTLE. (Gal. iii.) On the spiritual progeny

of Abraham.--He is Father of us Gentiles.-We,
in his Seed, Christ, are his children.-On the
weakness of the Old Law for man's justification.

GOSPEL.-(St. Luke, xvii.) The ten lepers.-
The nine ungrateful represent Jewish people-
the one grateful, a Samaritan, an image of the
Christian people.-Why the Liturgy of this
season dwells so much on the two Testaments.-
The spirituality which ignores the Liturgical
life. On the Incarnation as the great historic
fact. How such considerations practically bear
on the Unitive Life,-The superiority of power
in the Christian Priesthood over that of Aaron.

The 14th Sunday,

EPISTLE (Gal. v. Walk in the spirit, &c.)

What the Spirit effects in the children of men.-

His twelve Fruits.-Comparison with what flesh

and blood could produce. What we are to do

for the subduing of our Flesh;-she is always

ready to rebel;-we have all to combat her.-

Necessity of corporal mortification;-what that

demands;-admirable teaching of St. Francis of

Sales regarding it.-Mortified people are the

most affable of men ;-the most cheerful are

often the busiest in bodily mortification.-