Read a short passage for reflection, explore a writer’s voice, or spend more time with a substantial essay on prayer. These 48 pages include Church teaching, historical quotations, devotional writing, and seasonal reflections. The catalogue identifies the author or kind of source where the page supplies it.
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Begin with the passage itself, then notice its date, attribution, and purpose. A council text, a private devotion, a personal reflection, and a brief quotation each call for a different kind of reading. Follow a quotation back to its complete source when interpreting a disputed point; brief extracts can leave out qualifications and historical circumstances.
The Lenten guide separates current guidance from preserved historical notices; the older indulgence page remains a historical text. For present-day practice, consult your diocese and the USCCB’s current U.S. fasting and abstinence guidance. For an authoritative starting point on Catholic teaching, use the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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- Continuing Steadfast and Established in the Faith Catholicism
Vincent of Lérins · historical theological passage
- From the Living and Abiding Voice Catholicism
Papias · historical passage on testimony and tradition
- Abbot Isaias: historical passage on heresy Catholicism
Abbot Isaias · historical polemical quotation; read in its period and source context
Also indexed as: Venom of Heretics
- Clement of Alexandria on Peter Catholicism
Clement of Alexandria, reported by Eusebius · historical passage
- Catechism of Trent on Prayer Prayer
Catechism of the Council of Trent · substantial historical teaching on prayer
- Scriptures Prayer
Biblical quotations on prayer · compare wording and references with a complete Bible
- Indulgences for Bible reading: historical text Scripture
Historical indulgence wording; its older day-and-year reckoning should not be read as current guidance.
Also indexed as: Indulgences Granted for Reading the Bible
- St. Alphonsus De Liguori's Conclusion to a Short Treatise on Prayer Catechism
Alphonsus de Liguori · concluding prayer from a treatise on prayer
- Lenten fasting and abstinence: current guidance and historical texts Lent
Current U.S. Latin Catholic guidance, with the complete historical notices and their attributions preserved.
Also indexed as: Rules; Lenten fasting and abstinence: historical rules
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