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3. Quod autem quidam voluerunt intolligere praeelso de die PasARε non beno aenaerunt, cum papa Eugenius declaravit ad removendaa ambiguitatos quod sumit in dio Jovis sancta et ulterius usque ad dominicam mat Pascha immediato aequontem inclusive. 'summa angelica, lae. oli., n. 36.s7 Ibid., n. 37. ramiso. πιναι., L VI, tr. III, de Euctariatia, n. 297.

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mmunion, and for many eenturies Christians

satisfactortly complied mi in this obligation. Whenthe early fervor diminished, it Was thought nec- sam is strengthen the morat obligation is a iuridieal one. It is dissiculi to indicato the preciso dato at Which the precept Was formulated, for the

biuding lam; but it Aeems qui te certain that ths

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Quatre Temps, Vigiles iesineres et te Carsime entihrement. On Ember dua thou inali fast, On Vigila and throughout Lent.

This commandinent embodies a very ancient discipline, determinin for a far longer time than os precept os annuat confession and Easter Communion. It Was formerly even thought that insprescription concerning Umber Days, Vigils, and Lent, dated bach to the Apostles. Historians, onins authoriw of the Liber Pont cacis, and can-isis, folloWing ths chapter Jejunium, Distinct. XVI, attributed ins institution os ins Ember Days to Pops Callistus. Baronius, basing his conclusions on divers documents of Christian antiquity, and on the lessons of the Roman Brevia for tho Dast of St. Callirius, ascribed iis originto the Apostlas. ΤΟ-day We are less positio;

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St. Leo. Their institution evidently must date farther bach. SL Leo traces their origin to the old Testament, assi ing that this fast partahes of

this: Thou fhati adore the Lord tis God, -d thou Shati serve no ons but Him, and adding thattheir definite institution must be attributed to the Apostlos.' At the time Men this holy Pontiss

gland, Germany, and Franee. Spain did nos hemma aequianted With them till Iator, and the muroh of Milan lator stili. . juniorum vero utilitatem Novi Testamenti gratia non remorit: quoniam sicut permanet apud intelligentiam christianam: Dominum tuum Morabia et illi soli aerulea . . . et eastera talium mandatorum; ita quod in eisdem libris de jejuniorum sanctificationo et curatione praeoeptum eat, nulla interpretatione vaeuatur.' Servia 15, Ds i . derimi mensis, c. ii. Migne, P. L., t. LIV, 175. Cf. an extraci from a aemon on the seventh mono a Matr Cui medicinae, dilectissimi, Iioet tempus omne ait congruum, hoc tamen habemus aptiasimum, quod et apostoliris ει ιυακbus institutis videmus electum. Erem. 93, e. iii, ib., 457. 7 Ita per totius anni circulum distributa aunt, ut lex abstinentiae omnibus ait Meripta temporibus. Siquidem jejunium vernum in quadragesima, aestivum in Pentemate, autumnalo in mense septimo, hiemale autem in hoo, qui est decimus, celebramus, intelligentes divinia nihil vacuum esse praeoeptis, et verbo Dei ad eruditionem noatram omnia elementa servire; dum per ipsius Disjtigod by IOOOle