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Dialog of Catherine of Siena · CCEL ThML source edition

Contents for Dialog of Catherine of Siena, CCEL ThML source edition

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  1. Front matter The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena source.xml#i
  2. Front matter Title Page source.xml#ii
  3. Front matter CONTENTS source.xml#iii
  4. THE DIALOGUE OF ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA source.xml#iv
  5. INTRODUCTION source.xml#iv.i
  6. A TREATISE OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE source.xml#iv.ii
  7. How a soul, elevated by desire of the honor of God, and of the salvation of her neighbors, exercising herself in humble prayer, after she had seen the union of the soul, through love, with God, asked of God four requests. source.xml#iv.ii.i
  8. How the desire of this soul grew when God showed her the neediness of the world. source.xml#iv.ii.ii
  9. How finite works are not sufficient for punishment or recompense without the perpetual affection of love. source.xml#iv.ii.iii
  10. How desire and contrition of heart satisfies, both for the guilt and the penalty in oneself and in others; and how sometimes it satisfies for the guilt only, and not the penalty. source.xml#iv.ii.iv
  11. How very pleasing to God is the willing desire to suffer for Him. source.xml#iv.ii.v
  12. How every virtue and every defect is obtained by means of our neighbor. source.xml#iv.ii.vi
  13. How virtues are accomplished by means of our neighbor, and how it is that virtues differ to such an extent in creatures. source.xml#iv.ii.vii
  14. How virtues are proved and fortified by their contraries. source.xml#iv.ii.viii
  15. A TREATISE OF DISCRETION source.xml#iv.iii
  16. How the affection should not place reliance chiefly on penance, but rather on virtues; and how discretion receives life from humility, and renders to each man his due. source.xml#iv.iii.i
  17. A parable showing how love, humility, and discretion are united; and how the soul should conform herself to this parable. source.xml#iv.iii.ii
  18. How penance and other corporal exercises are to be taken as instruments for arriving at virtue, and not as the principal affection of the soul; and of the light of discretion in various other modes and operations. source.xml#iv.iii.iii
  19. How this soul grew by means of the divine response, and how her sorrows grew less, and how she prayed to God for the Holy Church, and for her own people. source.xml#iv.iii.iv
  20. How God grieves over the Christian people, and particularly over His ministers; and touches on the subject of the Sacrament of Christ's Body, and the benefit of the Incarnation. source.xml#iv.iii.v
  21. How sin is more gravely punished after the Passion of Christ than before; and how God promises to do mercy to the world, and to the Holy Church, by means of the prayers and sufferings of His servants. source.xml#iv.iii.vi
  22. How the road to Heaven being broken through the disobedience of Adam, God made of His Son a Bridge by which man could pass. source.xml#iv.iii.vii
  23. How God induces the soul to look at the greatness of this Bridge, inasmuch as it reaches from earth to Heaven. source.xml#iv.iii.viii
  24. How this soul prays God to show her those who cross by the aforesaid Bridge, and those who do not. source.xml#iv.iii.ix
  25. How this Bridge has three steps, which signify the three states of the soul; and how, being lifted on high, yet it is not separated from the earth; and how these words are to be understood: “If I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all things unto Me.” source.xml#iv.iii.x
  26. How this Bridge is built of stones which signify virtues; and how on the Bridge is a hostelry where food is given to the travelers; and how he who goes over the Bridge goes to life, while he who goes under It goes to perdition and death. source.xml#iv.iii.xi
  27. How traveling on both of these roads, that is the Bridge and the River, is fatiguing; and of the delight which the soul feels in traveling by the Bridge. source.xml#iv.iii.xii
  28. How this Bridge, having reached to Heaven on the day of the Ascension, did not for that reason have the earth. source.xml#iv.iii.xiii
  29. How this soul wondering at the mercy of God, relates many gifts and graces given to the human race. source.xml#iv.iii.xiv
  30. Of the baseness of those who pass by the river under the Bridge; and how the soul, that passes underneath, is called by God the tree of death, whose roots are held in four vices. source.xml#iv.iii.xv
  31. How the fruits of this tree are as diverse as are the sins; and first, of the sin of sensuality. source.xml#iv.iii.xvi
  32. How the fruit of others is avarice; and of the evils that proceed from it. source.xml#iv.iii.xvii