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 PREFACE  FWARU CAWALL . A., to he "Tsz Breviary Office of the Church," remarks the rverend author of the C-htholic ChorallY, "is, next to the august Sacrifice of the Altar, the most accept- able tribute of praise that man can offer to his Maker; and ,li]lOUgh by reason of their various secular avatiom, the laity are not bound, like the clergy, to its recital, yet that portion of it which includes the Hymns and Canticles, might be fre- quently, if not. daily, recited by them, with great spiritual benefit and fruit. Thus, besides the happi- ness of uniting with the Church in an important portion of her most acceptable service, the Faithful would become daily more and more enlighteued on the sublime truths and mysteries of ]Religion, and furnished with the most pathetic and edifying sub- jects of instruction and meditatioa" He adds, that it was his wish to have iuserted in his collection, togsther with the Vesper hymns which he gives, ........ Googl