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Updated: July 26, 2025
The round of devotion thus commenced was continued with a steady uniformity,—Prime at half-past six; Tierces at nine, and after this a daily Mass; Sexte at eleven; Nones at two; Vespers at four; and Compline closing the series at a quarter-past seven. The Gospel and Epistles were read daily; and sometimes during or after dinner the Lives of the Saints.
While you are in Catholic countries, inform yourself of all the forms and ceremonies of that tawdry church; see their converts both of men and women, know their several rules and orders, attend their most remarkable ceremonies; have their terms of art explained to you, their 'tierce, sexte, nones, matines; vepres, complies'; their 'breviares, rosaires, heures, chapelets, agnus', etc., things that many people talk of from habit, though few people know the true meaning of anyone of them.
Conceive the heartlessness of the man who, at the moment of Alexander's awful grief at the murder of his son a grief which so moved even his enemies that the bitter Savonarola, and the scarcely less bitter Cardinal della Rovere, wrote to condole with him could pen that terrible epigram: Piscatorem hominum ne te non, Sexte, putemus, Piscaris notum retibus ecce tuum.
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