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She can then read the Acts and Epistles of the Apostles. These finished, she will gladly learn by heart the Prophets and Historical books.

Lastly, she can read the Canticle of Canticles, for she will have been prepared to understand this in a spiritual sense.

St. Jerome.

The evangelical precepts are no other than divine lessons, they are the foundation of hope, the strengthening of faith, the food of charity; the Gospel is a rudder to steer our way through life, and helps us to reach the harbour of salvation.

The law commands but few things, but those few should be willingly and lovingly performed.

St. Cyprian.
On the Lord's Prayer.