A TABLE OF FEASTS AND FASTS. Holy-days of Obligation in Ireland, to hear Mass, and refrain from servile work. OBS.-The above Holy-days are observed in England, with the exception of the Feasts of St. Patrick and Annunciation. In Scotland-St. Andrew's Day, November 30. St. John of Facundo, O S.A., April 26. June 24. the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, St. Clare of Montefalco, V., O.S.A., August 18. Festival of our Holy Father St. Augustine, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor of the Church, and Founder of the Augustinian Order, August 28. Sunday within the Octave of St. Augustine's Festival, Solemn Commemoration of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Consolation, Patroness of the Order and of the Archconfraternity of SS. Augustine and Monica. Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, September 8. Holy Name of Mary, Sunday within the Octave of her Nativity. Feast of St. Nicholas of Tolentine, St. Thomas of Villanova, DAYS OF FASTING ON ONE MEAL AND A COLLATION. Wednesdays and Fridays in Advent. Every day of Lent, except Sunday. SS. Peter and Paul. Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary. Christmas. The Quarter Tenses, or Ember Days, being the Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays next after the First Sunday of Lent, after Whit Sunday, after September 14th, and after December 13th. By a recent grant of the Holy See, butter is allowed at the collation in Lent, and on the ordinary fast days of the year. DAYS OF ABSTINENCE FROM FLESH MEAT. All the Sundays in Lent, except when the use of meat is allowed by the Archbishop or Bishop of the diocese. All the Fridays throughout the year. If Christmas Day fall on a Friday, neither fast nor abstinence is observed. Should a fasting vigil fall on a Sunday, the fast is to be kept on the Saturday previous. As the Lenten regulations vary in the different dioceses, the Faithful should consult them before Ash Wednesday. The same remark applies to the closing day of the time for fulfilling the precept of Easter Communion. DECREE OF THE FOURTH COUNCIL OF LATERAN (CANON 21) RE GARDING ANNUAL CONFESSION AND PASCHAL COMMUNION. "Let every one of the Faithful, after coming to years of discretion, confess all his or her sins, and receive reverently, at least during Paschal time, the Sacrament of the Eucharist; otherwise let him or her, while living, be shut out from the Church, and, at death, be deprived of Christian burial." In virtue of this precept of the Church, the Faithful are bound to receive Holy Communion once a year in their parish church, namely, within the Paschal time, under pain of the above excommunication. They are at liberty to confess anywhere. • Should these Vigils fall on a Friday, eggs are forbidden at dinner in Ireland; otherwise the use of eggs is allowed. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. From the Creation of the World our Holy Father, St. Augus the Foundation of the City of Rome tine (in 354) his wonderful conversion (in 387). (in 391) his Foundation of the Augustinian Order his episcopal consecration in 395 his happy death on August 28, 430 the second Translation of his holy body to the Church of St. Peter, Pavia,* in 725 the General Union of the Augustinian Order by Alexander IV. in 1256 the finding of the body of our holy mother, St. Monica, at Ostia, and from its translation into the Church of St. Tryphon, now St. Augustine's in Rome, during the Fontificate of Martin V. (A.D. 1430) the Apparition of the Holy Picture of Our Lady of Good Counsel at Genazzano ,, the correction of the Calendar by Gregory XIII. the election of our present Pontiff, Leo In A.D. 1839, at the request of the Archbishop of Bona in Algiers (formerly Hippo in Africa), the holy relics were brought back to his ancient diocese; and, upon opening the sarcophagus, his right arm, shoulder, and blade bone wer? found to be entire.-(Moriarty, O.S.A.) DECREE OF THE SACRED CONGREGATION Concerning the renewal of Indulgences by Gregory XV., after Paul V's revocation of many Indulgences of Religious Orders. "WHEREAS, in a letter of the Holy Congregation appointed over the affairs of Regulars, and the consultations of Bishops, dated 23rd of March, 1629, sent to the Prior-General of the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine, it seemed as if the Indulgences of the ArchConfraternity of the Cincture, which is erected at Bononia (called in Italian Bologna) in the Church of St. James, granted to them by the many Popes of Rome, as also to the other Confraternities aggregated to it, and afterwards recalled by Paul V., of blessed memory, could be rejected: notwithstanding Gregory XV. of happy memory had, out of his great and old love and affection for that Society, renewed and confirmed them in his Bull, which begins with the words: Injuncti nobis' (3 of the nones of June, 1621); the matter having been now carried to the Holy Congregation, and more carefully examined, the same Congregation hath judged: 'THAT THERE WAS NO MANNER OF HINDRANCE WHY THE BRETHREN AND SISTERS OF THE SAID CONFRATERNITIES SHOULD OR OUGHT NOT TO MAKE USE OF AND TO ENJOY ALL AND EVERY THE INDULGENCES CONTAINED, confirmed and renewed TO THEM IN THE SAME BULL.' Dated this 17th day of April, 1673.* F. M. CARD. BRANC, Præf. Mich. Aug. Riccius, Secret. Two years later than this_Decree followed the famous Golden Bull of Clement X., "Ex injuncto nobis " (March 27, 1675), which wonderful Summary of Indulgences was examined anew and approved by Pius IX., Sept. 18, 1862. The Perpetual Calendar. SHOWING ALL THE FEASTS OF THE AUGUSTINIAN, ROMAN, IRISH, AND ENGLISH CALENDARS, AND THE PLENARY INDULGENCES OBTAINABLE EVERY DAY FOR ALL POPULAR DEVOTIONS. Obs-The signs are fully explained on pages 30, 31, and 32 of this book. January. DEVOTION." The holy Infancy of Jesus." 1 THE CIRCUMCISION OF OUR LORD. 3(g), 4(a), 13(a), 14(a), 20(c), 21(c), 22(c), 26(k), 27(f), (39f), (40h), (40t). 2 Octave of St. Stephen. 27(f). St. Munchin, B. 3 Octave of St. John, Ap. 27(f). 4 Octave of the Holy Innocents. 5 Vigil of the Epiphany. 27(f). 6 27(f). THE EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD. I(a), 3(g), 4(a), 10(e), 14(a), 16(k), 20(c), 21(c), 22(c), 24(k), (26k), 27(f), (39), (40h), (40f). 7 Within the Octave of Epiphany. 27(f), (39) 8 Within the Octave of Epiphany. 27(f), (39) St. Albert, B. 9 Within the Octave of Epiphany. 27(f), (39f) |