The life and letters of Father Bertrand Wilberforce of the order of preachers
Publisher: Sands & Company
Published: 1906
Place of publication: London, England; St. Louis, USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; title: Introduction xiii; title: CHAPTER I; title: 1839-1864; title: The Wilberforce Family — Characteristics of the Emancipator inherited by his Grandson — Henry Wilberforce : his connection with Dr Newman — Birth of Arthur — Childhood — Conversion of his Parents — Malvern — Goes to Ushaw — Vocation to the Priesthood — Inishbofin — Rome — Anecdotes — Receives Sub-Diaconate — Vocation to Religion — Ordained Deacon — Regrets at leaving Ushaw — Enters the Dominican Novitiate — First Mass — Canon Greene's Reminiscences 1-29; title: CHAPTER II; title: 1864-1875; title: Life in the Novitiate — Death of a Novice — Letters to his Family — Religious Profession — Parish Work — In Charge of the Stroud Mission — Letters on Apostasy — Is made Prior of St Dominic's, London — Letters to his Parents — "Good Works" — Death of Mr Wilberforce — Letter from Cardinal Newman to Mr W. Wilberforce — Letters from Father Bertrand to his Sister on her entrance into Religion 30-48; title: CHAPTER III; title: 1875-1878; title: Breakdown in Health — Rest at Surbiton — Letter to his Sister on her Profession — Assigned to Woodchester — Story of Canon Akers and Dr Pusey — Holy Death of a Priest — Is appointed Chaplain to the Convent at Stone — Love of the Poor and Sick — Letters on following a Vocation to Religion — To his Sisters — To a Nun on her Death-bed — To A. B. — Thoughts on the Closing Year — Death of Mrs Wilberforce — Letter to a Novice — To Miss Wilberforce 49-66; title: CHAPTER IV; title: 1878-1883; title: Leaves Stone and resumes Mission Work — Letter to a Novice — To A. B. — Death of Teresa H., and Letter to her Sister — To his Sister in Religion — A Strange Story — On listening to the Salvation Army — Encouragement — Preaches at the Funeral of Mother Imelda Poole — Letter of Sympathy — Hard Work — Literary Labours — Letters on Contemplation — On Confession — To his Sister — St Alphonsus's True Spouse — To a Novice of the Order of Preachers 67-86; title: CHAPTER V; title: 1883-1886; title: Extracts from Journal — Evidence of Growth in the Spiritual Life — Is assigned to Leicester — Notes of Mental Prayer — Retreat of 1883 — "Ordering of Time for God" — Means of Avoiding Waste of Time — Love of Reading — To A. B. — Visit to Bishop Ullathorne — Letter of Encouragement — Retreat to Poor Clares at Baddesley Clinton — Anecdotes — Self-depreciation — Attacks of Illness — Desire for purely Contemplative Life a Temptation — Goes to Karlsbad 87-104; title: CHAPTER VI; title: 1886-1889; title: Extracts from Journal — Impressions of Malines, Cologne, Nuremberg, etc. — Life at Karlsbad — Visits Eger and Prague — Description of Benedictine Convent — Grata and Vienna — Chapel of St Stanislaus — Dominican Convent — Made Preacher-General — Ratisbon — Resumes Mission Work — Another Illness — Goes to Neuenahr — "Neuenahr Rubrics" — Meran — Letters to a Religious — Love of his Vocation — Anecdotes — To A. B. — Notes of his Retreat — Browning's Poetry 105-126; title: CHAPTER VII; title: 1890-1893; title: Death of his Sister, Mrs Froude — Letters of Resignation — Notes on Love of Jesus Christ — Illness at Maryvale — Letters of Direction — On Suffering — Early Rising — Our own Sins the cause of the Passion — Cardinal Newman's Rules for a Convert — Symptoms of Disease appear — Letters on Shortness of Life — Conversation with God — Difference between Confession and Direction — "A Lost Shaving-brush" — To a Convert — Pride our Great Enemy — Illness of Mother Francis Raphael — Letters of Sympathy 127-144; title: CHAPTER VIII; title: 1894-1896; title: Letters on Fervour and Perseverance — Comfort in Prayer — "Seek God and not Perfection" — A Little Book on the Love of God — Memoir of Mother Francis Raphael — Sermon on St Dominic — Visits Neuenahr again — Fenelon's Prayer — Temptations — St Gregory on Self-examination — On Despondency — Frequent Communion — Advice for Retreat — Necessity of Self-denial — To B. H. — The Dog "Denis" — Difficulties regarding Faith — "Light Reading" 145-168; title: CHAPTER IX; title: 1896-1897; title: Failing Health — "Preparation for Death" — Is Assigned to Hawkesyard — Makes his Retreat — On Humility and Abandonment — Sympathy and Encouragement to a Convert — Aversions — Religious Obedience — "An Astronomical Difficulty " — Joining in Protestant Worship — Ruysbrceck, Browning, and "Plain Tommy" — Anecdotes — A Lesson in Grammar — "Death most Desirable" — A Superstitious Prayer — True Idea of Perfection — Rules of Mortification — The Presence of God — Christ our Friend — Notes for a Retreat, to Clergy — "The Prayer of Acts" — Spiritual Communion — To his Sister, on his own Retreat 169-200; title: CHAPTER X; title: 1898; title: Letter on Perseverance — Joy of helping Souls — Mission at Bumley — To his Sister, on the Possibility of his Dying Suddenly — Cardinal Newman's Words — Strict Diet — On the Use of a Watch in Mental Prayer — Unity of Doctrine in the Catholic Church — To a Nephew on his Confirmation — On Desires — A Sermon on Jonas — To his Sister — Advice for a Retreat — Trust in God — Opinions on Various Subjects — On Temptations — Danger of Delay in following Light — " Consummate Perfection" 201-230; title: CHAPTER XI; title: 1899; title: On Authority of the Church and Devotion to our Lady — To an Invalid : "An Old Buffer" — On Peace of Soul : Help from Others — To his Sister on her Half Jubilee in Religion — On Affections of the Brain — Rules for Mortification — Anglican Difficulties — On 1 Cor. xv. — Courage under Temptation — The Boer War — Letter of Consolation 231-245; title: CHAPTER XII; title: 1900; title: Letters on the Old and the New Century — The War — "V.C." — "Mrs Boer" — "Aiming High" — Advice to an Invalid — To his Niece — Note on "Boys" — Those outside the Church — "Selfish Heavenly Joys" — Criticism of Ruskin — Ethics of the Dust — Sufferings a Mark of God's Love — Treatises of Savonarola — More Remarks on Ruskin 246-261; title: CHAPTER XIII 1900 — continued; title: Attack of Iritis at Newton Abbot — Simplicity and Obedience in Times of Sickness — Irritability repaired by Humility — Rest at Stone — Makes his Retreat — Another Attack of Illness — Threatened with Deafness — Struggle with Nature ; Resignation — Resumes Correspondence — Job and his Friends — "The Sunny South" — On Reading the Scriptures — Life of Canon Bathurst — Congratulations to a Convert — On Reading Books against the Faith — Union and Contemplation — Instructions to a Convert 262-279; title: CHAPTER XIV; title: 1901; title: Returns to Hawkesyard — Letter to * on Various Subjects — On Self-knowledge — Trust in God — The Coronation Oath — To a Religious — "Out of the Church no Salvation" — Mission at Glasgow — Answers to Questions — Grace "not of Works" — To an Invalid — Letter to an Anglican Gentleman on Mental Prayer — To * — On Romans v. 4 — St John xiv. 1 — Religious Vows 280-309; title: CHAPTER XV; title: 1902; title: A Comparatively Quiet Year — Extracts from Letters of Direction — On "Perfect Docility" — G. Sands 1 and G. Egerton's Books — The Problem of Evil — Illness at Greenwich — To his Sister — Distinction between "Saints and Holy Men" — To a Nephew — On Anglican Orders — The Way in which Christ Loves — Subjects for Meditation in Time of Retreat — To * — "Out on the Steps" — To Mr Montgomery Carmichael on John Wcdshe — Comfort for the Spiritual Consolation : Purgatory 310-333; title: CHAPTER XVI; title: 1903; title: References to the Comfort — On the Promise to the Religious Life — "What Keeps us Back" — Self-examination — Rodriguez — Advice for Lent : on Contrition — Tennyson's Enid — To an Invalid — Varia — B. Grignon de Montfort — Our Lord's Hidden Life — Illness at Kensington Square Convent — Anecdotes — Letters of Direction — On some Protestant Views of "Election" — A Meditation on Death — Notes of his own Retreat — To Rev. F. Castle, C.SS.R. 334-361; title: CHAPTER XVII; title: 1904; title: On Cardinal Newman as a Writer — Illness at Atherstone and Hawkesyard — To his Sister — Stay at Downside — Visits Buckfast Abbey — To Rev. F. Castle, on Prayer — Some Elementary Truths — To a Religious Superior — On False Humility — Faith and Submission of Judgment — Notes of his Last Retreat at Hawkesyard — To a Friend Abroad — On the Spirit of Submission to the Teaching of the Church — Goes to Teignmouth 362-380; title: CHAPTER XVIII; title: December 3rd — 14th 1904; title: Account given by Rev. Dom Bede Camm, O.S.B., of Last Days at Teignmouth — Arrival at Chiswick — Taken ill — Visit of his Old Novice-Master — Docility and Child-like Obedience — Rev. F. Raphael Moss, O.P., Administers the Last Sacraments — Last Words — Funeral — Characteristics — Meditation on "Preparation for Death" 381-398; title: Index 399-406