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• Sagesse évangélique pour les sacrez entretiens du Caresme. English (London : Printed for I.W., and are to be sold by Philemon Stephens ..., 1661), by Nicolas Caussin and Basil Brook (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Las lamentaciones, himnos, cánticos y secuencias de la Semana Santa y Pascua de Resurreccion (Impr. de Nuñez, 1826), by Francisco Gregorio de Salas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Passion Week; : containing prophesies and Gospel narratives of the sacred events, with poems, meditations and prayers; also the Ascension and Pentecost; together with an horology of the sacred Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. (James Hammond ..., 1887), by N. C. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)

• L'office de la Semaine sainte et de celle de Ppque en latin et en françois selon le missel et bréviaire romain : au quel on a ajouté un exercice pour entendre la messe, l'explication des céré monies, des réflexions, et les pseaumes de la pénitence. (Imprimé à la Nouvelle Imprimerie, 1816), by Eglise catholique (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'office de la Semaine sainte selon le messel [sic] & breviaire romain avec l'explication des sacrés mysteres repré senté s par les cérémonies de cet office : l'ordinaire de la messe, les sept pseaumes de la pénitence, les litanies des saints & les prieres pour la confession & communion, tirées de l'Ecriture sainte. (Chez Fleury Mesplet & Charles Berger, imprimeurs & libraires, 1778), by Eglise catholique (page images at HathiTrust)

• L'office de la Semaine sainte et de celle de Ppque en latin et en françois selon le missel et bréviaire romain : au quel on a ajouté un exercice pour entendre la messe, l'explication des céré monies, des réflexions, et les pseaumes de la pénitence. (Imprimé à la Nouvelle Imprimerie, 1816), by Eglise catholique (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vid korset : betraktelser öfver frälsningen i Kristus (Augustana Book Concern, 1887), by O. Olsson (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Keep a True Lent, by Charles Fillmore (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Médiations sur les épîtres et les évangiles du carême (Librairie de L. Hachette et cie, 1865), by Louis Eugeǹe Marie Bautain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lenten season. Discourses on retirement and self-denial. (T.N. Stanford, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Paschal or Lent fast, apostolical and perpetual, at first delivered in a sermon preached before his majesty in Lent, and since enlarged, wherein the judgment of antiquity is laid down. (J. H. Parker, 1845), by Peter Gunning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Striving for the mastery : a day-book for Lent (Longmans, Green, 1896), by Wyllys Rede (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history, object, and proper observance of the holy season of Lent (Pott, Young & Co., Cooper Union, 1875), by William Ingraham Kip (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petit carême de Massillon, évêque de Clermont. (Pierre Didot, 1803), by Jean-Baptiste Massillon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Readings for every day in Lent. (Gen'l Prot. Episc. Sunday School Union, 1859), by Jeremy Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• New helps to a holy Lent (E.P. Dutton, 1876), by F. D. Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lantern for Lent : brief instructions on biblical subjects for the forty days of Lent (Skeffington, 1897), by S. E. Cottam (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history, object, and proper observance of the holy season of Lent: (Pott & Amery, 1867), by William Ingraham Kip (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sin and Our Saviour : forty serious sermons for forty serious days (The Young churchman co., 1895), by Jacob Serenus Hartzell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instruction and encouragement for Lent. (H. B. Durand, 1859), by John Henry Hobart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history, object, and proper observance of the holy season of Lent: (E. H. Pease, 1844), by William Ingraham Kip (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lent, past and present (T. Whittaker, 1895), by Herman Lilienthal Lonsdale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lent, the holy season (The Neale pub. co., 1902), by Sterling Galt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The last discourses of Our Lord (Whittaker, 1905), by Alfred G. Mortimer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Drevnīi︠a︡ pouchenīi︠a︡ na voskresnye dni velikago posta E. Pi︠e︡tukhova. (Tip. Imp. Akademīi nauk, 1886), by E. V. Pi︠e︡tukhov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instruction and encouragement for Lent (D. Dana, 1859), by John Henry Hobart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prediche quaresimali. (Presso Foresti e Bettinelli, 1816), by Ignazio Venini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts for the Lenten season (J. Pott & co., 1897), by Charles H. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lent lilies, a garden of quiet thoughts for forty days (Hodder & Stoughton, 1911), by May Clarissa Byron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circular, to the clergy and the faithful of the diocese of Sandwich (s.n., 1867), by Catholic Church. Diocese of Sandwich. Administrator (1866- 1867) : Bruyère) and J. M. Bruyère (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pastoral letter addressed to the clergy and laity of the Diocese of Halifax (s.n.], 1884), by Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Halifax. Archbishop (1882-1906 : O' Brien) and Cornelius O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lent 1868 (s.n., 1868), by B.C.) St. John's Church (Victoria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lenten pastoral letter of the Rt. Rev. John Walsh, D.D., Bishop of London (s.n., 1881), by Catholic Church. Diocese of London. Bishop (1869-1889 : Walsh) and John Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pastoral address for the Lent of 1851 Armand Francis Mary de Charbonnel by the grace of God, and the favor of the Holy Apostolic See, Bishop of Toronto : to the clergy and the laity of the diocese : do penance was the first preaching of Our Lord after having fasted forty days in the desert ... (s.n., 1851), by Catholic Church. Diocese of Toronto. Bishop (1850-1860 : Charbonne) and Armand François Marie de Charbonnel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pastoral address for the Lent of 1852 Armand Francis Mary DeCharbonnel, by the grace of God, and the favour of the Holy Apostolic See, Bishop of Toronto : the Council of Trent commands repeatedly all the pastors to preach the word of God every Sunday and Holyday ... (s.n., 1852), by Catholic Church. Diocese of Toronto. Bishop (1850-1860 : Charbonne) and Armand François Marie de Charbonnel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quelques lettres pastorales de Son Excellence Monseigneur Diomède Falconio, archevêque de Larisse délégué apostolique au Canada (Co. d'imprimerie d'Ottawa, 1900), by Eglise catholique. Archdiocèse de Larisse. Archevêque (1899 : Falconio) and Diomède Falconio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instruction sur les cérémonies à observer durant l'exposition solennelle du Saint-Sacrement dite des quarante heures telle qu'établie dans le diocèse de Québec par le mandement du 19 mars 1872. (s.n., 1872), by Église catholique. Archidiocèse de Québec. Archevêque (1871- 1898 : Taschereau) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A pastoral letter for the Lent of MDCCCLIII addressed to the clergy and laity of the Archdiocess [sic] of Halifax (English & Blackadar, 1853), by Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Halifax. Archbishop (1852-1858 : Walsh) and William Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lenten regulations we give the following practical directions for the observance of this year's Lent in the Vicariate .. (s.n., 1886), by Narcisse Zéphirin Lorrain and Catholic Church. Vicariate Apostolic of Pontiac. Vicar Apostolic (1882-1898 : Lorrain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Lenten thought think upon the words said over you when your forehead was signed with the cross .. (s.n., 1896), by Ont.) St. Alban's Church (Rat Portage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pastoral letter for the Lent of MDCCCLIV, addressed to the clergy and laity of the Archdiocese of Halifax (E. Dunigan & Bro., 1854), by Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Halifax. Archbishop (1852-1858 : Walsh) and William Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mission Church of S. John Baptist, Portland, New Brunswick how to keep Lent. (s.n., 1800), by N.B.) Mission Church of S. John Baptist (Portland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lent, and how to keep it (W.M. Wright, 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circulaire de Monseigneur l'évêque de Valleyfield au clergé de son diocèse en vertu des pouvoirs qui me sont conférés par un indult .. (s.n., 1898), by Joseph-Médard Émard and Église catholique. Diocèse de Valleyfield. Évêque (1892-1927 : É mard) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pastoral letter of the Right Rev. E.A. LeBlanc, D.D., Bishop of St. John to the clergy and laity of his diocese. (Saint John Globe Pub. Co., 1915), by Catholic Church. Diocese of Saint John. Bishop (1912-1935 : LeBlanc) and Édouard Alfred LeBlanc (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pastoral letter of the Right Rev. E.A. LeBlanc, D.D., Bishop of St. John to the clergy and laity of his diocese. (Saint John Globe Pub. Co., 1914), by Catholic Church. Diocese of Saint John. Bishop (1912-1935 : LeBlanc) and Édouard Alfred LeBlanc (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Circular the comfort that was naturally afforded us at the success which attended your zeal and labours in carrying out the suggestions we offered to you ... (s.n.], 1902), by Catholic Church. Diocese of Saint John. Bishop (1901-1912 : Casey) and Timothy Casey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pastoral letter of the Right Rev. E.A. LeBlanc, D.D., Bishop of St. John to the clergy, religious orders and laity of his diocese. ([s.n.]., 1919), by Catholic Church. Diocese of Saint John. Bishop (1912-1935 : LeBlanc) and Édouard Alfred LeBlanc (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pastoral letter John Walsh, by the Grace of God, and the appointment of the Holy See, Archbishop of Toronto : to the clergy, religious communities and laity of our archdiocese, health and benediction in the Lord. (s.n., 1890), by Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Toronto. Archbishop (1889-1898 : Walsh) and John Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• To the parishioners of Christ's Church, Montreal (s.n., 1847), by J. Bethune (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circulaire les consolations que nous a procurées le succès de votre zèle et de vos labeurs en accomplissant les conseils donné s par nous dans notre dernière circulaire (s.n.], 1902), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Saint-Jean. Évêque (1901-1912 : Casey) and Timothy Casey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mandement de Sa Grandeur Monseigneur Édouard LeBlanc, évêque de Saint-Jean au clergé aux ordres religieux et aux fidè les de son diocèse. (Des Presses de "Moniteur Acadien", 1914), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Saint-Jean. Évêque (1912-1935 : LeBlanc) and Édouard Alfred LeBlanc (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mandement de Monseigneur Édouard LeBlanc, évêque de Saint-Jean au clergé, aux ordres religieux et aux fidèles de son diocèse. (Saint John Globe Pub. Co., 1915), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Saint-Jean. Évêque (1912-1935 : LeBlanc) and Édouard Alfred LeBlanc (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Christ the life and light : lenten readings (Dutton, 1905), by Phillips Brooks and W. M. L. Jay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lenten soliloquies for private and public use (The Young Churchman Co., 1904), by William Edward McLaren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mandement de messieurs les vicaires généraux du chapitre métropolitain de Paris, le siége vacant, pour le saint temps de carême. (A. Le Clère, 1817), by Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Paris (France). Chapitre métropolitain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some quiet Lenten thoughts, being meditations for the forty days of Lent (W.S. Sonnenschein & Co., 1885), by T. B. Dover (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lenten thoughts; or, How to keep Lent. (H.J. Hewitt, Printer, 1886), by James Redding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lent, a liturgical commentary on the lessons and gospels. (B. Herder, 1946), by Conrad Pepler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pastoral del illmo. y revmo. señor obispo del Paraguay don Juan Sinforiano Bogarín en ocasión de la Santa Cuaresma del año del Señor 1902. (Tipografía de "La Patria paraguaya", 1902), by Juan Sinforiano Bogarín (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Our new life in Christ : reflections on the Masses of Lent, Passion-tide and the Easter Octave (Conception Abbey Press, 1957), by Mo.) Conception Abbey (Conception (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Find life in Lent (Ave Maria Press, 1959), by Shawn G. Sheehan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Now we go up to Jerusalem : Setpuagesima to Passiontide (Paulist Press, 1962), by Mary Perkins Ryan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A good penance for Lent (Divine Word Publications, 1959), by Sister Mary Theresita (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lent, its purpose and meaning ([Ave Maria Press], 1957), by Mary Perkins Ryan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• I don't like Lent (Queen's Work, 1937), by Daniel A. Lord (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prayer a day for Lent : compiled from approved sources (Paulist Press, 1944), by Albert A. Murray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Remember me" : daily readings for Lent. (International Catholic Truth Society, 1924), by International Catholic Truth Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The chief evils of the times, a lenten course of seven sermons (Joseph F. Wagner, 1917), by Heinrich Franz Nagelschmitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The litany and the life (The Young churchman co., 1904), by John Newton McCormick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Keep a true Lent. (Unity School of Christianity, 1954), by Charles Fillmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts for Lent (A.D.F. Randolph, 1873), by Ashton Oxenden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Déclaration du roi concernant le commerce de la viande pendant le carême à Paris : donnée à Versailles le 25 décembre 1774 : registrée en Parlement le 10 janvier 1775. (A Paris : Chez P.G. Simon, imprimeur du Parlement, rue Mignon Saint-André des Arcs, 1775., 1775), by France. Sovereign (1774-1792 : Louis XVI) and P. G. Simon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history, object, and proper observance of the holy season of Lent (Delisser & Procter, 1859), by William Ingraham Kip (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lent, a liturgical commentary on the lessons and gospels (St. Louis, Mo., London : Herder Book Co., [1944], 1944), by Conrad Pepler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A manual of devotion for Lent (Isbister & Co., 1900), by W. J. Knox-Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great Lent: A School of Repentance. Its Meaning for Orthodox Christians, by Alexander Schmemann (Gutenberg ebook)
• By the King a proclamation for restraint of killing, dressing, and eating of flesh in Lent, or on fish daies, appointed by the law to be hereafter strictly obserued by all sorts of people (Imprinted at London : By Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, M.DC.XXIIII [1624, i.e. 1625]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) and King of England James I (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Sober and serious considerations occasioned by the death of His Most Sacred Majesty, King Charles II (of ever blessed memory), and the serious time of Lent following it together with a brief historical account of the first rise, progress, and increase of phanaticism in England and the fatal consequents thereof : now made publick in tendency to the peace of the kingdom / by a gentleman in communion with the Church of England, as now by law establish'd. (London : Printed by John Leake for Luke Meredith ..., 1685), by Gentleman in communion with the Church of England and P. A. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A pastoral letter from the Bishop of Bath and Wells to his clergy, concerning their behaviour during Lent (London : Printed for Charles Brome and W. Clark, 1688), by Thomas Ken (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Orders conceiued by the lords of her Maiesties Priuie Counsell, and by her Highnesse speciall direction commanded to be put in execution for the restraint of killing, and eating of flesh this next Lent, and to be executed aswell by the lord maior within the city and suburbes of London, and by the officers of the liberties and exempt places in and about the same, as by order to be prescribed by the lords lieutenants of all the counties of the realme, to the iustices of peace, lords of liberties, and officers of corporall townes : 1. March, 45. yeere of her Maiesties Reigne. (Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, Anno Dom. 1602 [i.e. 1603]), by England and Wales Privy Council and Elizabeth 1533-1603 (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamation for restraint of killing, dressing, and eating of flesh in Lent, or on fish dayes (Imprinted at London : By Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, M.DC.XXV [1625, i.e. 1626]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and Charles 1600-1649 (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamation for restraint of killing, dressing, and eating of flesh in Lent, or on fish dayes (Imprinted at London : By Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, M.DC.XXVI [1626, i.e. 1627]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and Charles 1600-1649 (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamation for restraint of killing, dressing, and eating of flesh in Lent, or on fish dayes (Imprinted at London : By Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, M.DC.XXVII [1627, i.e. 1628]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and Charles 1600-1649 (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A proclamation set furth by the Kynges Maiestie, for the abstinence from fleshe in the time of Lent, and other daies prohibited, the xiiii. daie of Februarie, in the seuenth yere of his Maiesties most prosperous reigne ([London?] : Richardus Graftonus typographus Regius excudebat, Anno Domini 1552 [i.e. 1553]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1547-1553 : Edward VI) and King of England Edward VI (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• By the Queene the Queenes Maiestie considering the euil disposition of sundry her subiects, to keepe the ancient orders for abstinence from eating of flesh, aswell in the time of Lent, as vpon other vsuall fasting days ... straitly chargeth all manner of people ... from henceforth yerely to obserue and keepe the ancient and laudable order for fasting ... (Imprinted at London : By the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, 1597), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) and Queen Elizabeth I of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons why all good Christians should observe the holy fast of Lent extracted out of my Lord of Ely's Paschal fast. ([London : Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh, 1681]), by Peter Gunning (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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