The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments

(1) To remind an instructed congregation of that which they knew already--and to make them more grateful for the often underrated privilege of being members of the Catholic Church; and
(2) To suggest some simple lines of instruction which they might pass on to others. Unless the instructed Laity will help the Clergy to teach their uninstructed brethren, a vast number of {viii} Church people must remain in ignorance of their privileges and responsibilities. And if at times the instructed get impatient and say, "Everybody knows that," they will probably be mistaken. Many a Churchman is ignorant of the first principles of his religion, of why he is a Churchman, and even of what he means by "the Church," just because of the false assumption--"Everybody knows". Everybody does not know.