The true spouse of Jesus Christ
The Centenary Edition.
The True Spouse of Jesus Christ.
THE FIRST SIXTEEN CHAPTERS
BY
St. ALPHONSUS de LIGUORI,
Doctor of the Church.
EDITED BY
REV. EUGENE GRIMM,
Priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer.
Volume I.
NEW YORK, CINCINNATI, AND ST. LOUIS:
BENZIGER BROTHERS,
Printers to the Holy Apostolic See.
R. WASHBOURNE, 18 Paternoster Row, London. |
M. H. GILL & SON, 50 Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin. |
1888.
CONTENTS.
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1. They Become Like The Angels, And Are The Spouses Of Jesus Christ, 17. | ||
2. How Much More Happy Are Virgins Than Married Women Even In This Life, 21. | ||
3. Excellence Of Virginity, 26. | ||
4. Means To Preserve Virginal Purity, 28. | ||
5. The Spouse Of Jesus Christ Should Be Entirely His, 33. | ||
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1. The Religious State Is Like The Promised Land; It Is Paradise On Earth; It Is A Great Grace, 39. | ||
2. Advantages Of The Religious State According To St. Bernard, 41. | ||
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I. She Should Renounce Everything, And Love Only God, 61. | ||
2. We must overcome ourselves and courageously strive for perfection:— Means to be adopted for this purpose, 71. |
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1. How holy desires are useful, and even necessary, 80. | ||
2. Means for acquiring perfection, 90. | ||
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1. One can and should avoid all venial sins plainly voluntary, 99. | ||
2. Venial sins injure above all the religious, who : are most especially called to perfection, 107. | ||
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1. A religious has especially to fear being lost when she sins by attachment to some passion, or when she lives in tepidity, 113. | ||
2. Means to extricate one’s self from tepidity, 121. | ||
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I. Necessity of combating self-love. - Practical rules, 129. | ||
II. Detachment from self-will, 142. | ||
III. The merit of obedience, 154. | ||
IV. The obedience due to the Superiors, 160. | ||
V. Obedience due to the Rule, 172. | ||
VI. The four degrees of perfect obedience, 190. | ||
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I. Its necessity and advantages, 205. | ||
II. The mortification of the eyes and modesty in general, 217. |
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I . The vow of poverty, the perfection of poverty. and Community life, 249. | ||
II. The degrees and the practice of perfect poverty, 263. | ||
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I. Detachment from relatives, 277. | ||
II. Detachment from seculars, and even from the sisters, 287. | ||
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I. The advantages of humility, 299. | ||
II. The humility of the intellect or of the judgment, 308. | ||
III. Humility of the heart or of the will, 318. | ||
IV. Continuation of the same subject, and especially patience in bearing contempt, 331. | ||
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I. The necessity of this virtue, and its practice in our thoughts and sentiments, 346. | ||
II. The charity to be practised in words, 355. | ||
III. The charity to be practised in works, and towards whom it is to be practised, 366. | ||
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379 | |
I. Patience in general, 379. | ||
II. Patience in sickness, poverty, contempt, persecution, and spiritual desolation, 395. | ||
III. Patience in temptation, 408. |
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I. The merit of resignation to the divine will, 421. | ||
II. In what things we ought, in a special manner, to resign ourselves, 430. | ||
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I. Moral necessity of mental prayer for religious, 441. | ||
II. The practice of mental prayer, 453. | ||
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I. Silence, 467. | ||
II. The love of solitude, and the avoiding of idleness, 480. | ||
III. The presence of God, 495. |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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