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The Evens or

Vigils before

The Annunciation of the Blessed Vir

gin.
Easter-Day.
Ascension-day.
Pentecost.

Saint Matthias.

Saint John Baptist.

Saint Peter.

Saint James.

Saint Bartholomew.

Saint Matthew.

Saint Simon and Saint Jude.

Saint Andrew.

Saint Thomas.

All Saints.

Note, that if any of these Feast-Days fall upon a Monday, then the Vigil or FastDay shall be kept upon the Saturday, and not upon the Sunday next before it.

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III. The Three Rogation-Days, being the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, before Holy Thursday, or the Ascension of our LORD.

IV. All the Fridays in the Year except CHRISTMAS-DAY.

CERTAIN SOLEMN DAYS,

FOR WHICH

PARTICULAR SERVICES ARE APPOINTED.

I. The Fifth Day of November, being the Day kept in Memory of the Papists' Conspiracy.

II. The Thirtieth Day of January, being the Day kept in Memory of the Martyrdom of King Charles the First.

III. The twenty-ninth Day of May, being the Day kept in Memory of the Birth and Return of King Charles the Second.

IV. The Twentieth Day of June, being the Day on which her Majesty began her happy Reign.

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Some of these being times of solemn Fasting and Abstinence, some of holy festivity and joy, both fit to be spent in such sacred exercises, without other avocations.

THE

SUM OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH,

CALLED

THE APOSTLES' CREED,

Divided into Twelve Articles.

1. I Believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.

2. And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord.

3. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary.

4. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried.

5. He descended into hell: the third day he rose again from the dead.

6. He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty.

7. From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

8. I believe in the Holy Ghost.

9. The holy Catholic Church; the Communion of Saints.

Matt. vi. 9.

10. The Forgiveness of sins.

11. The Resurrection of the body.

12. And the life everlasting.

Amen.

By this Faith, (into which, and none but which, all Christians are baptized,) we learn to believe,

1. In God the Father, who hath made us, and all the world.

2. In God the Son, who hath redeemed us, and all mankind.

3. In God the Holy Ghost, who doth sanctify us, and all the chosen people of God.

THE LORD'S PRAYER,

Divided into Seven Petitions.

The Preface.

Our Father, which art in heaven.

The Petitions.

1. Hallowed be thy Name.

2. Thy kingdom come.

3. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in

heaven.

4. Give us this day our daily bread.

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