A History of the Commandments of the Church

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sqq. 10 'Direndum est eur tanta celebritate hodierna potissimum nocto vigilamus.' Sermo 22I, In vigil. Paschae, III. P. L., t.

11 Hodierni diei per universum nota solemnitas quid nobis afferat solemnitatis . . . tempus admonet ut loquamur.' Sermo 202, In Epiphan. Domini, IV, ib., I033.1 Festus nobis dies uterque.' Sermo 263, De ciam is Domini, III, sb.. 1209. Di0jtigod by IOOOle

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Apostles Peter and Paul, is a more numerouS M- tendanoe. Is the attendanee is numerous on ins

13 eo celebratur hodiernus diea toto orbe terrarum. Hermo 262, no. 3. ib. I208.14 Debuimus quidem tantorum mRrtyrum diem, hoo εα - - torum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli, majore frequentia MIebrare. Si enim celebramua frequentissimo natalitia agnorum, quanto magis debemus arietum V Sermo 298, In naιαι. Ap tesor. Pstri

et Puiali, Tu, ibid. 1365.1. mel tam grati laetiquo solemnitas, et coronae tanti martyriatam felix et jucunda festivit .' Sermo 312. In natasi CP priani martyris, IV, I, ibid., I420. 16 Sanctissimus et solemnissimus diea.' Sermo 3I3, I, ibid., 1423.17 Eorum dies solemnissimos celebramus.' Sermo 325, ibid., 1447.

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WOUS . . ., δ' and that is ali. Is iners had boon astrici obligation for his diocesans to assist at theservices of the dan Would not the holy doctor have instructed the faithful mors platalyl And canono see in this eata and melancholy exordium a reproach intended in censure a real fauit lWe cannot, therefore, dr- any solid conclu

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Suis mas the discipline of the African Church. It must have been about the fame in the rest of the Latin Worid ; but the sermons of ths other Fastersos ths time, Maximus of Turin, Peter Chrysologus,

Is Admonamus charitatem vestram, fratres, quoniam Vos quasi solemniter hodie convenisse conspicimus, et ad hunc diem solito nequentius congregat .' Sermo I98, no. I, ibid., 10I4. 0 CL for the dio se of riura tho vigila institutod by SL Perpatuus for tho fe is of SL Martin, St. Lidortus, etc. Gregor. Turonen., Historia Francorum, I. X, e. xxxi, nO. 6. P. B., t. XI. 566. 31 VNoenon et illud petendum, ut apectacula theatrorum ceteror-

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umquo ludorum die dominica veI teria religionis ehristianas diebus oeleberrimis amoveantur, maxime quia sancti Paachae octavarum die populi ad eircum magis quam ad Meleaiam e-veniunt, debero transferri devotionis eorum diea si quando occurrerint V Co in Can iam molarias Afrisanae, o. LXI. BRUNS, L I, 27 a Si quis in elero constitutua ab ecclesia aua diebus nolemnibus defuerit, id est, nativitate, epiphania, Pascha, Vel pente coste, dum potius saecularibus lueris studet quam Moitio Dei paret, convenit ut triennio a communione auspendatur. ne. Agathen. 506 , e. lxiv. BRUNS, Oanonea et Concilia, L II, p. 158.

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As time goes On, the obligation beeomes more strici. At the end of the fame century, in theregion of Μacon, it made a great stese forWard. Perhaps this Was a consequenes of the principies Cono. Asathen., e. XXI. Bruns, Op. oli., p. 150. Among the meat feaala is enumeraled that of St. John the Baptist. Rogo vos, fratres charissimi, et paterna pietate commoneo, ut quoties aut in die dominico, aut in aliis majoribus festivitatibus mimae fiunt, nullus de ecclesia discedat, donec divina mysteria eompleantur.' Sermo 28 I, inter opp. S. Augustini appendixi. Μigne, P. L., t. XXXIX, col. 2276. 2. Seiondum est, fratrea chariasimi, quod ideo a sanctis patribuan tria conatitutum est christianis et mandatum, ut in solemnitatibus sanctorum et maxime in domini a diebus otium haberent et a terreno negotio eoasarent et ut paratiores et promptiores essent ad divinum eultum.' Bermo 280, ibid., 2274. Di0jtigod by IOOOle

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as ' Tota magna hebdomada, et proxima sequenti Oeent, . . . dia Maumptionia vaeant, . . . in Pentemate VR nt, . . . in die

festo Νatalia, . . . in dio festo Epiphaniae, ... in diebua Ap tolorum, . . . in die Stephani protomartyria item vaeant ae r

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Pops St. Leo in ons of his sermons describes insfaithful as donning their best attire on diast days, an umist able sim that they abstained from

Seem miser to reneW an ancient discipline inanto institute a neW One.η

Iiquia diebus sanctorum mRrtyrum, . . . qui C istum vit- au- antemauerunt.' Conat. Ap t., VIII, xxxiii. Μigne, P. O., t. Leol. 57s-582.2s Rationabile et quodammodo religiosum videtur per diem festum in vastitu nitidiore prodire, et habitu corporia hilaritatem montia ostendere.' Sermo 41, De Quadragesima, iii, l. Migne, P. L., MV, 272.30Cf. Sermo 280, stupra citat. 31 Paacha itaque nostrum . . . debemus omnes festivissime colere . . . . ut illia sanctissimia sex diebus nullus aervile opus audeat is re, sed omnea simul quoadunati, himnia paachalibua indulgentea, perseverationia nostrae praesentiam cotidiania sae-rificiis ostendam .' Gono. Matiason. II 585ὶ, o. ii. Maassen,

Corioisia, P. 166. 32 Cf., for tho limitin number of feasta, Sιatuta Synodalia Eoetas. Remena. per Dominum Sonnatium fabout 630, doubiful in as to date and authentieity , c. H. Μansi, t. X, 599. Ι

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havo alma. citod the tori of the Couneil of Rouen in favor oleoWherda and sWineherda. Bruns, t. II, 271.33 Adnuncient presbyteri diebus dominicia per annum sabbatigandum . . . in Natale Domini VIII Kalendas Januarias, dies quisuor, in circumcisione Domini, in Epiphania, in purifleatione S. Mstriae, diem unum. In Pascha Domini, post dominicam, dies tres, in Ascensione Domini, ... in natale sancti Joannis Baptistae, in passione sanctorum apostolorum Petri et Pauli, in Assumptione S. Mariae, in passiono S. Andreas apostoli, diem unum.' Statuta S. Bonifacis, archiep. Mossunt. et Mart., e. xxxvi.

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the Purification ; on the Dasis of the martyrs and confessors Whose relios me in the parish Gurch, and on the anniversary of the dedication of thalchureh.δ' These decision A Were extended is a

ηε Fosina dios in anno celebrare sancimus, hoc est diem domini- eum Paschae cum omni honore et sobrietate veneraeri, simili modo totam obdomadam ill- obaervare decrevimus, diem Aaeensionia

Domini pleniter celebrare, in Pentecosten aimiliter ut in Pascha, in natali apostolorum Petri si Pauli diem unum, nativitatem sancti Johannis Baptistae, adsumptionem nanctae Mariae, dodicationemaancti Miohahalia, natalem amoti Remigii, sanetl Martini, aanetl Andreae, in natali Domini dies quattuor, octavaa Domini, Epiphan-