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CONTENTS.
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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 |
vi 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 |
vii 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 |
viiiTENTH 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 |
ix 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 |
xEIGHTEENTH 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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