instruction, when, used as follows:

No. 00 for Prayer classes.
No. 0 for Confession classes and certain adults.
No. 1 for First Communion classes.
No. 2 for Confirmation classes.
No. 3 for two years' course for Post-Confirmation classes.
No. 4 for Teachers and Teachers' Training classes.





PREFACE TO NO. 3

I have been requested by several priests to prepare an abridgment of the
"Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism" that would be suitable as a
classbook for children who have been confirmed or who have completed the
study of the Baltimore Catechism No. 2. The "Explanation" itself
contains more matter than some of these children can master and it costs
a little more than many of them can afford to pay. I have, therefore,
selected from the list given in the back of the "Explanation" a large
number of the more practical and important questions, to which I have
added others, with answers, as full, brief and simple as the matter will
permit. These questions and answers are added to those of the Baltimore
Catechism No. 2, but with such distinction in type that all may see they
are not a part of the Catechism prepared by the Council, but only a
development of its meaning.

{T.N.: It is not practical below to mimic "such distinction in type"