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Excerpt from The Confessional It is well to remember that these admonitions and penances must not be given to every penitent as they are written out; they are only hints to confessors, who are to judge for them selves what will suit hic at wane, and who are to modify them according to the circumstances and dispositions of their penitents. Not all things are good for all, nor are all things expedient at all nines. The Wise Man says: All shall be well approved in their time. (eccli. Xxxix. Omnia mecum porlo. This book may properly be called a Vade-mecum. The Rt. Rev. T. Mullen, D. D., Bishop of Erie, says of The Confessional: Priests will find this book a most useful companion in the library and pulpit, as well as in the confessional. To priests, particularly, who are engaged in missionary duty, 'the Confessional' will be eminently serviceable, as it will enable them to make their meditation with fruit; or if so occupied with other duties, as is often the case, that they find it impossible to prepare an instruction for the people, they need only read over for a few minutes attentively the meditation assigned in 'the Confessional for the Sunday or feastday they are celebret ing, to acquit themselves in a way that will satisfy their own consciences and edify the faithful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.