Days of 6. Names. DECEMBER. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, in Lycia. 8. Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 13. Lucy, Virgin, and Martyr at Syracuse. O SAPIENTIA. 16. 31. Silvester, Bishop of Rome. Note. See a book recently published, called "Justorum Semita; or, The Path of the Just," containing a history of the Saints' and Holydays of the present English Calendar. A TABLE OF THE VIGILS, FASTS, AND DAYS OF ABSTINENCE TO BE OBSERVED IN THE YEAR. THE EVENS, OR VIGILS BEFORE THE NATIVITY of OUR LORD. The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. EASTER DAY. Note. If any of these Feast Days fall upon a Monday, then the Vigil or Fast Day shall be kept upon the Saturday, and not upon the Sunday next before it. B II. The Ember Days / The First Sunday in III. The Three Rogation Days, being the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday be fore HOLY THURSDAY or ASCENSION DAY. IV. All Fridays in the Year, except CHRISTMAS DAY. And in the morning JESUS, rising up before day, went into a solitary place, and there prayed. ST. MARK, i. 35. Morning. Ps. xiii. 3. On first awaking. LIGHTEN mine eyes, O Lord, that I sleep not in death. Awake thou that sleepest, and arise Eph. v. 14. from death, and Christ shall give thee Ps. iii. 5. Ps. li. 2. light. On getting out of bed. I laid me down and slept, and rose up again, for the Lord sustained me. At the time of washing. Wash me clean, O Lord, from my wickedness, and purge me from my sins. Cleanse me, O God, by the bright fountain of Thy mercy, and water me with the dew of Thine abundant grace, that, being purified from my sins, I may grow up in good works, truly serving Thee in holiness and righteousness all the days of my life. |