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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It is not hard to show that all the principles of the religious life are connected with the profession of the vows that are made therein; because these vows already include its chief obligations; and any explanation of them done as it should be even though brief inevitably touches all the others. Now in the little treatise which we published under the title “The Catechism of the Vows” our purpose was only to state very briefly these principles and these obligations of the religious life. It was simply an ele- mentary work which we designed for all persons who live in the religious state and we hoped that its useful- ness would be all the more general for the reason that its very brevity would make it easy to learn and to remember. And as it turned out we have had the con- solation to see the little book find its way in the course of a few years into a large number of religious communi- ties. But a Catechism usually makes necessary an explica- tion. On the other hand it cannot tell everything to the teachers of it who nevertheless have need in order to expound an abridgment with more confidence and profit to know beyond what it contains. (LL)