to the "Father Ryan has in this volume supplied a work which will be much appreciated by clergy on the mission. The treatment of the subject is, it will be seen, thorough, and the priest who is called upon Sunday after Sunday to preach from the Gospel of the day, cannot find a work better suited purpose of affording suggestion and guidance. Some of the most difficult questions in theology are handled by the author. In all cases his views are sound; and he shows that his knowledge of the productions of commentators, ancient and modern, is extensive. The book is one which should have a large circulation."--Catholic Times. "Father Ryan has neglected nothing that could enhance the value of his work, every available source of information has been consulted, and the results of his wide reading are given so concisely that it is a pleasure to read his book. We heartily recommend it, and we trust that its circulation may correspond to its merit."-Irish Ecclesiastical Record. "There is much in this work which will be read with interest and profit by Protestants, as well as by Roman Catholics. Professor Ryan, before undertaking so great a work, qualified himself by a very extensive course of reading, which he indicates in outline. . . . The result is apparent in every page of his work. Whilst always loyal to the teaching of his own Church, both in the spirit and in the letter, he embodies in his comments the best results of the studies and researches of the theologians of other communions. His style, too, is marked by perspicacity and definiteness."-Irish Times. "In this work the sometime Professor of Sacred Scripture and Hebrew in Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, has set his hand to a task of real helpfulness. . . . Father Ryan has done his work with a thoroughness that is characteristic of the Roman Catholic Professor of Theology."-Academy and Literature. We trust that these two most readably printed and convenient volumes will find their way at once into a very great many presbyteries in Ireland, and in other English-speaking countries. They will, please God, help many a hard-worked priest to expound the Sunday Gospel to his people in a solid and interesting manner. We know of no other work of the kind that furnishes all the aid that can at once be found in these well-planned and well-filled pages."-Irish Monthly. 'This work ought to be of considerable help to Roman Catholic clergy; and there is a great deal in it that our own clergy will find useful."--Guardian. . "The Gospels read on the Sundays and festivals of the year are familiar to most of us. Any book which tends to their fuller apprehension, or which throws new light over them, ought to be hailed with joy. To the priest especially whose life is passed in pastoral work, and who has not much time either for consulting authorities or solving knotty points, a volume which gives him all the latest explanations, and which treats of the Gospels he has so often to expound from a thoroughly patristic standpoint, will ever be welcome. Such are the two volumes before us. In them we have a work of the most solid and painstaking character, and one which shows extensive reading and sound judgment. No point, as far as we can see, has been passed over; and where there are difficulties they have been faced, and the explanation which seems most in harmony with modern criticism and sound Catholic exegesis has been chosen."-Tablet. [Sixteen-page pamphlet of Approbations from Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, Professors of home and foreign Ecclesiastical Colleges, and the Catholic and non-Catholic Press sent post free on application.] The Gospel of St. John. With Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By the Rev. JOSEPH MCRORY, D.D., Professor of Sacred Scripture and Oriental Languages, Maynooth College. New Edition. Demy 8vo, 386 and iv. pp., cloth, 7s. 6d. "Its merits as an exposition of this sublime Gospel, apart altogether from the object for which it is written, far more than justify its appearance, and afford splendid promise that when the author has finished the task he has undertaken, he will have permanently enriched biblical literature, and conferred an inestimable boon . . on all students of the New Testament who understand the English language."-Irish Ecclesiastical Record. "The author is lucid in his language, his authorities are well chosen, and his explanations sound and plain."-Catholic Times. "A text-book of more worth than a whole library of critical science."-Nation. Instructions on the Sacraments. Being Volume II. of the "Compendium of Catechetical Instructions on the Commandments and Precepts of the Church. Being Volume III. of the "Compendium of Catechetical Instruction." Edited by the Rev. JOHN HAGAN, Vice-Rector, Irish College, Rome. Royal 8vo, 596 pp., cloth, 10s. 6d. net. Instructions on Prayer and the Virtues and Vices. Being Volume IV. of the "Compendium of Catechetical Instruction." Edited by the Rev. JOHN HAGAN, Vice-Rector, Irish College, Rome. Royal 8vo, 536 pp., cloth, 10s. 6d. net. (For particulars as to the "Compendium of Catechetical Instruction" see pages 93 and 94 of Catalogue.) Programmes of Sermons and Instructions. Comprising (according to the course laid down by the Catechism of the Council of Trent), The Apostles' Creed; The Commandments of God, and Precepts of the Church; Prayer and the Sacraments; as also an Exposition of Christian Doctrine. By the Rev. THOS. MacNAMARA, C.M. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo, 656 and xliv. pp., cloth, 8s. This work, since the publication of the recent Encyclical "De Christiana Doctrina Tradenda," has become of special value to the clergy, being based upon the actual course of the Catechism of the Council of Trent, which has been prescribed by that Encyclical as that to be followed in the Catechetical instructions. "It is the best work ever published in the English language for priests, young and old, to aid them in preparing solid instructions for their flocks."-The late Most Rev. Dr. M'GETTIGAN, Primate of all Ireland. Allocutions or, Short Addresses on Liturgical Observances and Ritual Functions. With Appendices on Parochial Organizations, Christian This handy volume is likely to prove a great boon to hardworked priests.... These Five-minute Sermons' as the Americans call them, are written with great unction, and evidence a careful study of the Holy Scriptures and of the Fathers of the Church. Very little time and trouble will be necessary in expanding them to the length required for a regular sermon."-Month. Sacred Rhetoric; or, The Art of Rhetoric as applied to the Preaching of the Word of God. Illustrated. By the Rev. THOS. MacNAMARA, C.M. Crown 8vo. cloth, 4s. The Ceremonies of some Ecclesiastical Functions. By the Rev. DANIEL O’LOAN, D.D., late Dean, Maynooth College. Third Edition Demy 8vo, 336 and viii. pp., cloth, 6s. SHORT CONTENTS: The Ceremonies of Solemn Mass.-The Blessing of Holy Water and the Asperges.-Solemn Vespers.— Compline.-Solemn Requiem Office and Mass.-Solemn Mass and Solemn Vespers in presence of the Blessed Sacrament Exposed.The Ceremonies of Certain Special Days.-The Feast of the Purification.-Ash Wednesday.-Passion Time.-Palm Sunday.Tenebrae.'-Holy Thursday.-Good Friday.-Holy Saturday.— Directions for the Assistant at a Bishop's Private Mass. "A work which will be simply indispensable in the library of every ecclesiastic. . . . The subjects dealt with are treated in a luminous, exhaustive manner, and we have no doubt the book will become for English readers the standard reference book on the matter."-Freeman's Journal. "This addition to the store of liturgical works in English merits more than a passing commendation. Additional value and a character of distinctness are given to this ceremonial by the instructive notes and remarks of the learned author. instructions are complete and detailed."-Ave Maria. The "This is an excellent Ceremonial. . . We greatly like its arrangement. . . We like it, moreover, for the system of marginal notes running all through the work... The book is in every way a credit to the publishers. . We wish it the largest measure of success.' -American Catholic Quarterly Review. The Sacred Ceremonies of Low Mass, According to the Roman Rite. From the Stereotyped Roman Edition, by FELIX ZUALDI, P.C.M. Edited with Additions and Notes, and harmonized with the latest Decrees by the Rev. M. O'CALLAGHAN, a Priest of the same Congregation. Seventh Edition, Ninth thousand. Thoroughly Revised and Enlarged Crown 8vo, 206 and xvi. pp., Cloth, 3s. 6d. How to Serve and Answer at Low Mass.. By the Rev. M. O'CALLAGHAN, C.M. Royal 32m0, cloth, 4d. The compiler has, amongst many authors, especially followed Bauldry, Baldeschi, and Martinucci. His design has been to facilitate the duty of the priest in training servers at Mass, and to gather in one little book all that the server requires to know, The Confessor after God's Own Heart. From the French of the Third Edition of the Rev. Fr. L. J. M. CROS, S.J. Fcap. 8vo, 284 and xii. pp., cloth, 3s. "A useful little book, specially addressed to the Superiors of Religious Houses or Schools, and to all confessors. The author tells us that his sole object is to place briefly before the eyes of priests the principles of Catholic theology concerning the administration of the Sacraments of Penance and the Eucharist.' And he has very well accomplished his task. Particularly instructive is the chapter on The Choice of a Confessor,' wherein the author shows the scrupulous care of the Church that the Faithful-whether Religious or laity-should have all possible freedom in the choice of confessors. The chief merit of this little work is that it brings together much scattered information for the use of confessors and others, upon a subject of very practical interest."-Weekly Register.. |