Contents — The Way of Perfection

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The Way of Perfection · CCEL ThML source edition

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Describes the importance of not turning back when one has set out upon the way of prayer. Repeats how necessary it is to be resolute. source.xml#i.xxix
Describes how vocal prayer may be practised with perfection and how closely allied it is to mental prayer source.xml#i.xxx
Describes the great gain which comes to a soul when it practises vocal prayer perfectly. Shows how God may raise it thence to things supernatural. source.xml#i.xxxi
Continues the description of a method for recollecting the thoughts. Describes means of doing this. This chapter is very profitable for those who are beginning prayer. source.xml#i.xxxii
Describes the great love shown us by the Lord in the first words of the Paternoster and the great importance of our making no account of good birth if we truly desire to be the daughters of God. source.xml#i.xxxiii
Describes the nature of the Prayer of Recollection and sets down some of the means by which we can make it a habit. source.xml#i.xxxiv
Continues to describe methods for achieving this Prayer of Recollection. Says what little account we should make of being favoured by our superiors. source.xml#i.xxxv
Describes the importance of understanding what we ask for in prayer. Treats of these words in the Paternoster: 'Sanctificetur nomen tuum, adveniat regnum tuum.' Applies them to the Prayer of Quiet, and begins the explanation of them. source.xml#i.xxxvi
Continues the same subject. Explains what is meant by the Prayer of Quiet. Gives several counsels to those who experience it. This chapter is very noteworthy. source.xml#i.xxxvii
Expounds these words of the Paternoster: 'Fiat voluntas tua sicut in coelo et in terra.' Describes how much is accomplished by those who repeat these words with full resolution and how well the Lord rewards them for it. source.xml#i.xxxviii
Treats of our great need that the Lord should give us what we ask in these words of the Paternoster: 'Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie.' source.xml#i.xxxix
Continues the same subject. This is very suitable for reading after the reception of the Most Holy Sacrament. source.xml#i.xl
Describes the recollection which should be practised after Communion. Concludes this subject with an exclamatory prayer to the Eternal Father. source.xml#i.xli
Treats of these words in the Paternoster: 'Dimitte nobis debita nostra.' source.xml#i.xlii
Describes the excellence of this prayer called the Paternoster, and the many ways in which we shall find consolation in it. source.xml#i.xliii
Treats of the great need which we have to beseech the Eternal Father to grant us what we ask in these words: 'Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo.' source.xml#i.xliv
Continues the same subject and gives counsels concerning different kinds of temptation. Suggests two remedies by which we may be freed from temptations. source.xml#i.xlv
Describes how, by striving always to walk in the love and fear of God, we shall travel safely amid all these temptations. source.xml#i.xlvi
Speaks of the fear of God and of how we must keep ourselves from venial sins. source.xml#i.xlvii
Treats of these last words of the Paternoster: 'Sed libera nos a malo. Amen.' 'But deliver us from evil. Amen.' source.xml#i.xlviii

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