The Complete Manual of Catholic Piety / Containing a Selection of Fervent Prayers, Pious Reflection, and Solid Instructions, Adapted to Every State of Life. To Which is Annexed a Supplement, Containing Excellent and Approved Devotions, With the Epistles and Gospels for All the Sundays and Festivals of the Year.

by William Gahan

Contents.

Preface	[7]
Table of Moveable Feasts	[10]
Feasts and Fasts throughout the Year	[11]
Unlawful Marriages	[12]
Plenary Indulgences	[12]
Manner of Lay Baptism	[14]
Ecclesiastical Calendar	[14]
Morning Prayer	[25]
Acts of Faith, Hope, and Charity	[30]
The Litany of the holy Name of Jesus	[33]
Salva Regina	[36]
The Angelus Domini	[37]
Short Ejaculations in the course of the Day	[38]
Prayers for Night	[39]
The Litany of the Blessed Virgin	[44]
The Hymn, Te lucis ante terminum—in English	[47]
A Prayer before Sermon, Spiritual Reading, &c.	[49]
A Prayer before Mass	[50]
Prayers at Mass	[56]
Preparation for Confession	[80]
A Protestation before the Examination of Conscience	[81]
Prayers before the Examination of Conscience	[82]
An Examination of Conscience	[85]
Prayers before Confession	[92]
A Prayer at receiving Absolution	[97]
Prayers after Confession	[98]
Instructions for Communion	[103]
Prayers before Communion	[107]
Acts of Virtue before Communion	[111]
A Prayer to obtain the effects of a Plenary Indulgence	[118]
Prayers after Communion	[124]
Acts of Virtue after Communion	[130]
The Seven Penitential Psalms	[141]
The Litany of Saints	[150]
Motives to Perseverance in a Virtuous Life	[158]
Devotions for every Day in the Week	[160]
Pious Reflections for every Day in the Month; from the French of the Rev. F. Bouhours	[171]
Meditations on the Articles of the Creed— to be used as a Devotion by Societies, Families, &c	[210]
Anthem of the Blessed Virgin, Salve Regina	[224]
An Universal Prayer for all things necessary to Salvation	[225]
A Prayer for the Choice of a State of Life	[227]
A Prayer for a Pregnant Woman	[227]
Litany of Divine Providence	[229]
Prayer of St. Bernard to the Blessed Virgin	[232]
Litany of St. Winefrid	[233]
The Golden Litany	[239]
The Prayers of St. Bridget	[247]
Devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus	[258]
Litany of the Sacred Heart	[259]
Reparation of Honour to the Sacred Heart	[262]
Devotions for the Sick	[264]
A Prayer upon Recovery from Sickness	[277]
Preparation for Death	[278]
A Prayer by St. Liguori	[291]
A Prayer of St. Augustin on the Sufferings of Christ	[292]
A Prayer of St. Jerome in time of Agony	[293]
Prayers to be recited by the Assistants when the Dying Person loses the use of Speech	[294]
Recommendation of a Soul Departing	[298]
Litany for a Happy Death	[305]
A Prayer for all that are buried in a Church or Church-yard	[309]
Exequies, or Sacred Rites over the Tomb, (in Latin and English)	[310]
Litany for the Dead	[316]
A Prayer upon the day of Decease or Burial	[320]
Vespers for Sundays, (in Latin and English)	[321]
The Hymn, Lucis Creator Optime, (Latin and English)	[326]
Litany of the Blessed Virgin, (in Latin)	[328]
Method of Serving at Mass	[330]
Supplement
On the Mass, and the use of the Latin Liturgy	[336]
The Ordinary of the Holy Mass	[340]
Explanatory Prayers at Mass	[367]
Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays and Principal Festivals throughout the Year	[388]
Instructions and Devotions for Confirmation	[482]
The Psalter of Jesus	[492]
The Rosary of the blessed Name of Jesus	[503]
The Rosary of the Blessed Virgin	[510]
The Hymn, Te Deum, (in English)	[521]
The Thirty Days' Prayer	[522]
Hymns for Festivals, (in Latin and English)
Advent, Alma Redemptor	[527]
Christmas, Adeste Fidelis	[527]
Passion and Palm-Sundays, Vexilla regis	[528]
Good-Friday, Stabat mater	[529].
Easter, O Filii	[532]
Whit-Sunday, Veni Creator	[534]
Sequence to do., Veni Sancte	[536]
Corpus Christi, Pange lingua	[538]
At the Elevation, O Salutaris	[540]