Q. What is forbidden by this?

A. All lustful thoughts and desires, and all wilful pleasure in the irregular motions of the flesh

Q. What is the tenth commandment? A. Thou shall not covet thy neigh. bour's goods.

Q. What is forbid by this?

A. All covetous thoughts and unjust desires of our neighbour's goods and profits.

CHAP. V.

The commandments of the church.

Q. Are we bound to obey the com

mandments of the church?

A. Yes; because Christ has said to the pastors of the church: He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me, St. Luke, chap. x. ver. 16.

Q. How many are the commandments of the church?

A. Chiefly six.

Q. Which be they?

A. I. To keep certain appointed days holy; with obligation of hearing mass and resting from servile works. Biii

II.

II. To fast Lent, Vigils commanded by the church, and Ember-days ; also to abstain from flesh on the three rogation days, St. Mark, unless it fall in Easter Week, the Sundays of Lent, unless leave be given to the contrary, and all Fridays and Saturdays, unless Christmas day falls on either of them.

III. To confess our sins to our pas tor at least once a year.

IV. To receive the blessed sacrament once a year, and that at Easter, or thereabout.

V. To pay tithes to our pastor.

VI. Not to solemnize marriage at certain times; nor within certain degrees of kindred, nor privately without witnesses.

Q. Why does the church command us to fast?

A. That by fasting we may satisfy God for our sins.

Q. At what age do persons begin to be obliged to confession?

A. When they come to the use of reason so as to be capable of mortal sin, which is generally supposed to be about the age of seven years.

Q. And at what time do they begin to be obliged to communion?

A When they are sufficiently capable of being instructed in these sacred mysteries, and of discerning the body of our Lord.

CHAP. VI.

The Sacraments.

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Hat is à sacrament?

A. An outward sign of inward grace or a sacred mysterious sign and ceremony ordained by Christ,by which grace is conveyed to our souls.

Q. Do all the sacraments give grace? A. Yes; if we are duly prepared. Q. Whence have the sacraments the power of giving grace?

A. From Christ's precious blood. Q. Is it a great happiness to receive the sacraments worthily?

A. Yes; it is the greatest happiness in the world?

Q. How many sacraments are there ? A. These seven; baptism, confirmation, holy eucharist, penance, Biv

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treme

treme unction, holy order,

trimony.

Q: What is baptism?

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A: It is a sacrament by which we are made Christians, children of God,' and heirs of Heaven; and are cleansed from original sin, and actual, if we be guilty of any.

Q. How is baptism given?

A. By pouring water on the child with the words ordained by Christ. Q. What are these words?

A. I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Which words ought to be said at the same time the water is poured.

Q. What do we promise in baptism? A. To renounce the devil, with all his, works and pomps.

Q. What is confirmation ?

A. It is a sacrament, in which, by the imposition of the hands of the bishop we receive the Holy Ghost, in order to make us strong and perfect christians and soldiers of Jesus Christ.

Q. How does the bishop administer this sacrament ?

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A. He prays that the Holy Ghost may come down upon us; and makes the sign of the cross with chrism on our foreheads.

Q. What is the holy eucharist?

A. It is the true body and blood of Christ under the appearance of bread and wine.

Q. Why has Christ given himself to

us in this sacrament?

A. To feed and nourish our souls, and to enable us to perform all christian duties.

Q. How is the bread and wine chan ged into the body and blood of Christ? A. By the power of God, to whom nothing is hard or impossible. Q. When is this change made? A. When the words of consecration ordained by Jesus Christ, pronounced by the priest in the

mass.

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Q. How must we prepare ourselves to receive the blessed sacrament? A. We must be in the state of grace, and be fasting from midnight. Q. Is it a great sin to receive un worthily?

A. Yes, it is; for he that eats and drinks