The folemnization of marriage is forbidden from the first Sunday in Advent till after the Epiphany and from Afh Wednesday till after Low Sunday: and to marry within the fourth degree of kindred; likewise the God-father and God-mother with the child, or with its parents. THE SU M OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE. The Apoftles Creed. I Believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jufus Chrift his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghoft, born of the Virgin Mary, fuffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; he defcended into hell, the third day he rofe again from the dead, he afcended into heaven, and fits at the Right Hand of God the Father Almighty, from thence he fhall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghoft, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of Saints, the forgiveness of fins, the refurrection of the body, and life everlafting. Amen. OUR Our Lord's Prayer. UR Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven: Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trefpaffes as we forgive them that trefpass against us, and lead us not into tempation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Ccc HA The Angelical Salutation. AIL Mary, full of grace, our Lord is with thee; bleffed art thou among women; and bleffed is the fruit of thy womb, Jefus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us fingers, now, and at the hour of our death. Amen. The Ten Commandments, I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the House of Bondage. Tfore me: * I. HOU fhalt not have ftrange Gods before me Thou shalt not make to thyfelf a graven thing, nor any likeness that is in heaven above, or in the earth below, or of things that are in the water under the earth Thou shalt not adore nor worship them. I am the Lord thy God, ftrong and jealous, vifiting the fins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and fhewing mercy to thousands of thofe that love me, and keep my commandments. II. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him innocent, that fhall take the name of the Lord his God in vain. * The LXXII tranflate it an Idol, that is the statue of a falfe God; commonly carved in Wood or Stone; and fre quently caft in metal to be quorfbipped, III. Remember that you keep holy the fabbath-day. IV. Honour thy father and mother. IV. Thou shalt not commit adultery, VIII. Thou shalt not bear falfe teftimony. against thy neighbour. IX. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house. X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor fervant, nor handmaid, nor ox, nor afs, nor any thing that is his. The Seven Sacraments. Baptifm, confirmation, eucharift, penance extreme unction, holy order, and matrimony; The theological Virtues. Faith, hope and charity. The Cardinal Firtues. Prudence, temperance, juftice, and forti tude. The Gifts of the Holy Ghoft. Wisdom, understanding, counfel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and the fear of our Lord. The Fruits of the Holy Ghoft.. Charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, meeknefs, faith, modefty, continence, and chastity. Ccc The Precepts of Charity. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, with thy whole foul, and with al thy mind. Thou fhalt love thy neighbour as thy felf. The Precepts of the Church. 1. To keep holy the appointed feftival days of the church, in abstaining from fervile works, and hearing mass. 2. To faft lent, ember-days, and Vigils, and on Fridays and Saturdays to abftain from flefh. 3. To confefs your fins to your paftor at least once a year: To receive the holy eucharift at eafter, between Palm-Sunday and Low-Sunday. 4. Not to folemnize marriage at times forbidden by the church: Nor within certain degrees of kindred; nor privately without witness. The Spiritual Works of Mercy. 1. To teach the ignorant. 2. To correct the finner. 3. To counfel the doubtful. 4. To comfort the afflicted. 5. Patiently to fuffer injuries. 6. To pardon offences. 7. To pray for the living and the dead, and thy perfecutors. The Corporal Works of Mercy. 1. To feed the hungry. 2. To give drink to the thirsty. |