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Devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus : containing exercises for confession, communion, and the Holy Mass, with numerous other prayers & reflections suited to the devotion

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. It would indeed be superfluous to indulge in prefatory matter, illustrative of a Work which sufficiently explains itself; or to extol the merits of a Book, whose best eulogium is the fact, that it contains all which its Title — a Title so sacred — imparts. It has been already submitted to the judgment of the Public. The very quick sale of the two former impressions, and an anxious enquiry for another Edition, are sufficient proofs of the approbation with which the Work has been received. A sincere desire on the part of the Translator, to meet the wishes of the Public, and also to assist thereby in the extension of this widely-spreading Devotion, has been the chief inducement to the publication of this present Edition. The Work, it will be easily perceived, has been much improved and enlarged, not only by the addition of Reflections and other Exercises, (translated for the first time from the French,) well calculated to excite the devotion and enliven the piety of the sincere Christian, but also by the introduction of the Proper Mass for the Festival of the Sacred Heart, the Little Office of the Sacred Heart, the Novena, and several other appropriate an

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