WORSHIPERS

That there may always be worshipers before the Blessed Sacrament, parish priests will divide their parishes into several sections and assign to the people of each the time during which they should corne to pray during the day. At least two clerks, in surplice, should remain in adoration, day and night, at a distance of four or five feet from the lowest step of the

altar, and separated from each other by the length of the altar. They will each hâve a prie-Dieu that they may kneel becomingly, for it is not proper to sit or stand, and for that' reason, they require to be frequently ehanged.

The Clémentine Instruction stricly requires that one or two priests, in surplice and white stole, or ecclesiastics in surplice, remain in adoration at the foot of the altar. This rule cannot be strictly imposed in this country where the priests assembled on such occasions are generally very much engaged in hearing confessions. ¥e hope they will do their utmost to fulnll, even during the night, so sweet a duty towards our Lord. Their différent exercises of piety and the holy office could not be better performed than in the présence of the Blessed Sacrament.

If there is but one priest, he will place himself below the altar steps, on the epistle side, with a prie- Dieu to kneel on. If there be two priests, the second will place himself on the gospel side.

The parish priest will choose ten willing and respectable men, of a ripe âge, for worshipers during the night, of whom two, at least, will be always in adoration, in surplice, while the others rest in the sacristy or elsewhere, as may be regulated by the parish priest.