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PREFACE xi
PROLOGUE xv

FIRST MEDITATION.

OF THE DIGNITY AND THE WOE OF MAN’S ESTATE.

SECT.

1. Our creation to the Image and Likeness of God

1

2. To praise God eternally the end of our creation

4

3. Wherever we are, we live, move, and are in Him; whilst also we have Him within us

6

4. All of us who have been baptized in Christ have put on Christ

10

5. We are the body of Christ

11

6. In Christ we are one, and are with Him one Christ

12

7. A consideration of our sins, for the which our conscience does the more sting us, and by which we have forfeited all these blessings

16

8. A review of our Lord’s Incarnation, by means of which we have recovered all these losses

19

9. The duty of praying to be drawn out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs

24

10. A consideration of the miseries of the present life

27

11. Of the body after the soul’s departure

30

12. Of the soul after her separation from the body

32

13. A consideration of the day of judgment, when the goats shall be set on the left hand

33
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14. A consideration of the joy when the sheep shall be set on the right hand

34

SECOND MEDITATION.

OF THE AWFUL JUDGMENT: FOE AWAKENING FEAR IN ONESELF.

15. The sinner’s fear

36

16. The sinner’s hope

42

THIRD MEDITATION.

A BEMOANING OF VIRGINITY SADLY LOST.

17. The sinner’s past

44

18. The sinner’s future

48

FOURTH MEDITATION.

TEACHING THE SINNER TO BESTIR HIMSELF FOR THE AMENDMENT OF HIS SINS.

19. The necessity and the benefit of careful self-examination

53

20. The goodness of God, and the malignity of the Devil

56

21. The compassion of Jesus

58

FIFTH MEDITATION.

22. On the life of soul and of flesh

62

23. And of the glory of the good soul

64

24. And the misery of the wicked soul, on their departure from the body

65

SIXTH MEDITATION.

DESIGNED TO BRACE THE HEART AGAINST DESPAIR, FORASMUCH AS WE SHALL WITHOUT DOUBT FIND TRUE MERCY FOR ALL OUR SINS IF WE DO TRUE PENANCE.

25. The condition of the sinner

69

26. The Divine mercy before the Incarnation

70
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27. The Divine mercy in the Incarnation

72

28. The sinner’s contemplation of himself

75

29. The sinner’s prayer to Jesus Christ

77

SEVENTH MEDITATION.

30. Of the changefulness of all that is in the world

81

31. Of the manifold blessings of Almighty God

82

32. Here the sinner chides himself for his ingratitude

83

33. An acknowledgment of sin

85

34. The sinner’s review of himself

87

35. The sinner’s cry to God

89

EIGHTH MEDITATION.

THE PENITENT’S ADDRESS TO GOD HIS FATHER.

36. A prayer for mercy and help

93

37. The penitent’s hope in the Divine mercy

97

NINTH MEDITATION.

OP THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST.

38. The glories and the condescension of our Lord Jesus Christ

101

39. The Nativity of Christ, and its sanctification of poverty

104

40. The hidden life and ministry of our Lord

106

41. The meekness and humility of Christ

109

42. The agony and the betrayal

111

43. The condemnation and the crucifixion

114

44. The humiliations of the Passion

117

45. The glories of the Passion

119

46. Joseph in Egypt a type of Christ

120

47. Love our only possible return to Christ for His sufferings

122

48. The likeness of His Death and of His Resurrection

124

49. Aspiration and prayer

130
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TENTH MEDITATION.

50. Of the Passion of Christ

133

ELEVENTH MEDITATION.

OF THE REDEMPTION OF MANKIND.

51. Cur Deus Homo

136

52. Thanksgiving for the liberation of mankind

145

53. Man’s past condition and present privilege

147

54. The soul’s surrender of itself to God

150

TWELFTH MEDITATION.

OF THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST.

55. The Mystery of the Incarnation

152

56. Hope inspired by the thought of the Incarnation

153

57. Joy inspired by the thought of the Incarnation

155

58. Love inspired by the thought of the Incarnation

157

59. Jesus the Salvation of sinners

160

THIRTEENTH MEDITATION.

OF CHRIST.

60. The Son of God, archetypal Beauty

163

61. The nine Choirs of Angels

166

62. The desires of the soul aspiring to God

170

63. The Saints in heaven

174

64. The joys of Mary, Queen of Heaven, and Mother of God

176

65. The loving aspirations of the soul to Jesus

177

FOURTEENTH MEDITATION.

66. Of the wonderful Being of God

181

67. Of the science of God, and the inadequacy of human speech to utter it

184

68. Of the desire of a soul thirsting after God

185

69. Of the misery of a soul that loves not and that seeks not our Lord Jesus Christ

187
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70. Of the desire of the soul

189

71. Of the happiness of the soul set free from her earthly prison

190

72. Of the joy of Paradise

192

73. Of the kingdom of heaven

193

74. God comforts the sorrowing soul after her great griefs

195

FIFTEENTH MEDITATION.

OF THE MEMORY OF PAST BENEFITS FROM CHRIST, OF THE EXPERIENCE OF PRESENT BENEFITS, AND OF THE HOPE OF FUTURE.

75. On the subjects of meditation

197

76. The Annunciation

199

77. The Visitation, Nativity, and Adoration of the Kings

200

78. The flight into Egypt 202

79. The early life, baptism, fasting, and ministry of our Lord

203

80. Our Lord’s works of mercy

205

81. Bethany and the Cœnaculum

207

82. Gethsemane and the high-priest’s palace

211

83. The Prætorium

213

84. The Crucifixion

214

85. The Entombment and Resurrection

217

SIXTEENTH MEDITATION.

OF PRESENT BENEFITS FROM GOD.

86. The writer’s review of his past life, and exhortation to his sister

221

SEVENTEENTH MEDITATION.

OF FUTURE BENEFITS FROM GOD.

87. Death and its immediate sequel

228

88. The Day of Judgment: the right hand and the left

231

89. The joys of Heaven, and the joy of joys

234
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EIGHTEENTH MEDITATION.

THANKSGIVING FOB THE BENEFITS OF THE DIVINE MERCY, AND PRAYER FOR THE DIVINE ASSISTANCE.

90. Thanksgiving for past blessings, and prayer for future

238

91. The same subject

245

NINETEENTH MEDITATION.

OF THE SWEETNESS OF THE DIVINE MAJESTY, AND OF MANY OTHER THINGS.

92. Wonder at the unspeakable goodness of God the Creator, and the deep misery of man the creature

252

93. The degree to which man may be loved by man, and the reason why God should be more loved than any human being

254

94. God made all things good, but He alone is Good essentially

256

95. The praise of the Creator by the whole creation

258

96. The resemblance of man to his Creator

259

97. Man is composed of two parts; by the one of which he is raised to highest things, and by the other dragged down to lowest

261

98. Here man prays God not to allow him to make ill use of his free power of choice

262

TWENTIETH MEDITATION.

99. Complaint of the soul banished from God

266

100. The soul’s absence from God

269

101. Complaint of the soul banished from God

273

102. The soul’s return to God

275

TWENTY-FIRST MEDITATION.

THE SOUL OF MAN URGED TO SEEK AND TO FIND ITS GOD.

103. The mind aroused to the contemplation of God

281

104. The inapproachable dwelling-place of God

286

105. The goodness of God, the creative Life

288

106. The fulness of joy

292
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