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PREFACE TO THE 2nd EDITION
It is with some apprehension that I resolve to publish this second edition. While the first edition, being typewritten, assumed a quality that, I would say, is private, made up of simple notes (it seemed a priest's notebook to me); this second in printed form seems instead to demand a more thorough work, almost scientific, or at least orderly, with a more elevated style. I think, however, that all this would take away much or would block completely the special fruit I intend to see.
My purpose is: to present to young priests a guide that, with all simplicity, might direct their first steps in public life: that it might be a practical and secure guide. I know that in this manner, I would not meet the taste of a notable number [of readers]: but I also know that they will find what they are looking for in other authors the reading of which I will recommend further on. Rather, I would not wait any longer to point out the best book we currently have in pastoral: KRIEG, Scienza pastorale,1 in four volumes of which the first Cura d'anime speciale and the second, Catechetica, have been published.
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1 C. KRIEG, Scienza Pastorale, Teologia Pastorale, in 4 volumes, version by A. Boni, Marietti, Torino. The work remained unfinished. The following have been published: Cura d'anime speciale, Marietti, Torino 1913; Catechetica, ossia scienza del catecumenato ecclesiastico, Marietti, Torino 1915; Omiletica o scienza dell'evangelizzazione della Parola di Dio, Marietti, Torino 1920.