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of honour, and an atonement for the many negligences and defects in former communions. During the day, if convenient, pay a special visit to the blessed sacrament, and there, or in your oratory, at the foot of the crucifix, make a solemn act of atonement to the Sacred Heart, for all the indignities it daily receives in the blessed eucharist, and for such as we ourselves perhaps have been guilty of.

EVERY MONTH.

Besides the principal festival, which happens but once a-year, the first Friday of every month has been also consecrated to the Sacred Heart. On ‘that day the clients endeavour to perform, either wholly or in part, the religious duties practised on the feast itself, viz., confession, communion, visits to the blessed sacrament, the reparation of honour, &c.

EVERY WEEK.

The zealous clients of this devotion, who endeavour to procure for them-