The following were adapted from A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity: The Official Prayer Book of the Catholic Church, prepared and published by the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, New York, London, 1896. I had a later printing of this prayer book when I was a teenager in the 1970s.
Days of Obligation and Devotion
What every Christian must do
What must I do to be saved?
We must believe the necessity of Divine Grace.
We should duly reverence all sacred emblems.
We are obliged to resist the irregular motions of concupiscence.
We must not marry non-Catholics.
The practices of fasting and abstinence may not be evaded or omitted without mortal sin.
When heretics are converted, inquiry must first be made.
In any dangerous illness, let your first care be to send for a priest.
Brethren, be sober and vigilant.
Explanation of the Ceremonies
When the priest ascends the steps of the altar,
At the washing of the fingers, at the elevation of the chalice:
Here the bell is rung.
The collation will naturally be taken in the evening.
The priest may add some short and salutary admonitions.
The choir then sings the hymn of the day, which varies according to season and solemnity.
At Easter, a fourth Alleluia.
The priest thrice mingles salt with water.
Then he strikes him gently on the cheek.
Here the bell is rung thrice.
When the candles have been lighted he adores upon his knees.
Still kneeling, the priest sings.
The bishop, wearing over his rochet an amice, stole, and cope of white, and having a mitre on his head, proceeds to the faldstool.
The Priest then, slightly inclining, takes both parts of the sacred Host.
Such as do not intend to communicate sacramentally may communicate spiritually.
This done, the priest blesses the ring.
Then follows the solemn renunciation of Satan and of his works and pomps.
Here the celebrant is incensed by the deacon.
Here he uplifts his hands.
The Bishop, laying aside his mitre, rises up.
“Forsake us not, O Lord our God; to thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve.”
Prayers which every Christian should know
The great antiphons
Prayer to the eternal father
Prayer in times of threatened calamity
Acts of faith, hope, etc.
Prayers during last agony
The secret prayer
We humbly beseech thee: Prayers…
For all things necessary to salvation
For pagans
For choosing a state of life
For a good death
For those who repose in a cemetery
For the tempted and afflicted
For those at sea
For fair weather
For rain
For the gift of tears
Lists
The four quarter-tenses, or ember-days
The annulling and prohibitory impediments to marriage
The seven gifts and twelve fruits of the Holy Ghost
The times wherein marriages are not solemnized
Psalms suitable for the various seasons
Sins crying to heaven for vengeance
Nine ways of being accessory to another’s sin
Rules for a sick person
Three devout prayers useful for the dying
Instructions and Devotions for Confession
“To what misery am I come by my own fault!”
Here examine your conscience.
What are your chief temptations just now?
Ask of God light to discover the sins committed this day.
“Rebuke me not in Thine anger.”
Let your confession be entire, pure, and humble.
Here perform your sacramental penance.
“I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered.”
Examination of Conscience: Sixth and Ninth Commandments
We shall not enter into details on this subject.
It is a pitch which defiles.
“Mortify in my members the lusts of the flesh and all harmful emotions.”
Recommendation of a Departing Soul
While the soul is in the agony of its departure, the priest recites the following prayers.
He offers the sick man a crucifix piously to kiss.
“Enlighten mine eyes that I sleep not in death; receive my soul in peace.”
With cotton he wipes the anointed parts.
He gives the last blessing and the last indulgence.
“In Thee, O Lord, have I hoped; let me never be confounded.”
The priest then exhorts him to bear his sufferings patiently.
The Office of the Dead
When the soul has departed, the following responsory may be said.
According to the custom of the place, let the passing-bell be rung.
Let the body be decently laid out, with lighted candles near.
After this, the body is borne to the grave.
The bones that were humbled shall rejoice in the Lord.
Thus ends the benediction
“Lord, I am not worthy.”
“Far be it from me, O Lord, to oppose the order of Thy wisdom.”
The four last things to be remembered: Death, Judgment, Hell, Heaven.
Deo Gratias.
