The Priest
Subtitle: His Character And Work
Publisher: Benziger Brothers
Published: 1920
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Preface to Second Edition; title: Preface to First Edition; title: PART 1; title: THE PRIEST'S CHARACTER; title: I; title: THE MAKING OF THE PRIEST; title: The home of his childhood — School-days — The first test — His confessor — The seminary — The parting of the ways — Retreats — Ordination; title: II; title: RULE OF LIFE; title: Good intentions — Cardinal de Rets — Standing alone — Few roles — Before and after breakfast — Use of the church— The hard things first — Need of method — Weekly confession — Clergy retreat 14; title: III; title: THE PRIEST AT PRAYER; title: The need of prayer — The difficulty of prayer — Meditation — Books and methods — The end to be gained — Vocal prayer — Our undertakings — The Divine Office — Its structure — A summary of the Faith, a history of the Church — The Prayer- book of the Ages 33; title: IV; title: OUR DAILY MASS; title: Ordained to say Mass — Difficulty of saying Mass well — The manual actions — Devotion in Mass — Helps — Defects — The Thanksgiving — The joy of Mass — Two Examples   61; title: Appendix: Examen (Dufrene) 62; title: V; title: STUDY— A TASTE FOR READING; title: The reading of the Mission-priest — The value of reading — Conference cases — A taste for reading a safeguard — What not to read — Why we read — What to read — A favourite subject — The value of history and literature— History of nations — History of thought — Newman — The joy of the reading habit 66; title: VI; title: THE PRIEST'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS STRONG DRINK; title: Practical dangers in our life — Our attitude towards these — The drink problem — Teetotalism the heroic safeguard — Other precautions — Temperance in quantity — Temperance in quality — When not to drink — The Levitical Law for the Priesthood — Bishop Moriarty on the beginnings of intemperance     83; title: VII; title: THE PRIEST'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS WOMEN; title: Woman before the coming of Our Lord — Woman under the New Dispensation — The Virgin Mother and the women of the Gospels — Women have claims upon our ministry — Religious communities of women — The state of celibacy- Dangers and safeguards — Infidelity to our vocation — Rapine in the holocaust and the scourge of God — Confidence is God 95; title: VIII; title: THE PRIEST'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS MONET; title: Importance of a right view about money — The ordeal of riches — Money wrecks the strong men — Archbishop Ullathorne's farewell to his clergy — The difficulty of the money problem — Avarice — Bishop Moriarty on this vice — Extravagance and selfishness — Keeping accounts — Personal expenses — Learning to go without 110; title: IX; title: THE SPIRIT OF ZEAL; title: The Priesthood as a profession or as a vocation— Zeal — The motive of seal — Counterfeits of zeal — True test of zeal — Lowering our standard — St. Paul's retreat — Our first retreat — The objects of our zeal — Our sinners and our saints — The lonely priest           123; title: PART II; title: THE PRIESTS WORK; title: X; title: RECTORS AND CURATES; title: The Rector — His Ecclesiastical position — Unselfishness: the condition of successful government — False relations between the head Priest and his assistants — The true relation : partnership — Captain Mahan and Lord Morley quoted — The Home Life — The Rector — Brother curates — The servants — Their shortcomings — Callers — Punctuality in keeping appointments — Recreations 145; title: XI; title: PREACHING; title: Personal piety and requisite knowledge — Letter from Garrick — Use and misuse of books of Sermons — Choosing our subject — Preparation of Sermon — The value of Writing, of Facts, of Illustrations — Importance of intelligible Speaking and Reading  170; title: XII; title: THE PRIEST IN THE CONFESSIONAL; title: His comfort in his first failures — Waiting for souls — Relapsing sinners — Confessions of devotion — Their value and the dispositions required — Children's Confessions — The instruction and the Penance imposed — Failings — Jealousy — Its remedy - Free trade in the Confessional — Want of discretion — Questions — Almsgiving in the Confessional — Supreme need of personal sanctity  182; title: XIII; title: THE SACRAMENTS OF BAPTISM AND MATRIMONY; title: Baptism: Bad tradition in England — Administration of Conditional Baptism; title: Converts: Permission required from the Ordinary — Two classes : those who have religion ; those who have none — Instruction of the very ignorant — Ceremony of Reception — The Sacramental Confession; title: Formalities of Marriage: Two sets of legal requirements to be fulfilled — Ecclesiastical formalities — Sponsalia - Ne tenure — Civil formalities — Historical account — Civil requirements and fees — The Priest's assistance in these matters — The Marriage Ceremony — The duty of the Registrar 203; title: XIV; title: PARISH VISITING; title: Mission-work and parish-work — Religious Organisations which have not Sacraments for individual souls — Its value for us — The place of almsgiving — Mr. Charles Booth quoted — Our dealings with various classes — Boys of the upper classes 327; title: XV; title: THE PRIEST IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS; title: Different classes of institutions — The Priest's official position and his real position — Personal influence — What it rests on — Conscientious work — Trustworthiness — Our shadowy rights — Finding out our people — What we can do with them — What the care of an institution does for us — The World's failures — Correspondence with officials — The World's ideal of good work and the Priest's 233; title: XVI; title: THE PRIEST AND HIS SICK; title: The sick bed our harvest-field — The Church's ideal of our duty to the sick — Confession early as possible — Temporal affairs — Prayers in the sick room — The Last Sacraments — Holy Viaticum — The dispositions — The innocent — The penitent — The waster — Death-bed repentance 247; title: XVII; title: THE PRIEST IN THE SCHOOL; title: Importance of our Schools at the present day — Our debt to Cardinal Manning — The Education Acts of 1902 and 1903 — The Priest's position in the School — His object : the School Catholic in tone and character — Rocks to be avoided — The priest's duty in the School — Religious instruction and Catholic atmosphere — Catechising — The Priest's office and the teacher's — Sunday Mass — Monthly Communion — Children's Confessions — Various Suggestions — Truthfulness — Honesty — Purity — Support of our Pastors — Our non-Catholic Children — Priestly reserve with Children — Vocation and its development   256; title: XVIII; title: SOCIAL WORK AND LAY HELP; title: Social work at the present day — Lay help — Our attitude towards it — The wrong price and the right price — Lay help invaluable — The classes for whom we work — Abiding power of social work 286; title: XIX; title: THE MISSION PROPERTY; title: Repairs — Lumber — Sordes vide Ecclesia — Altar linen and vestments — Font and Tabernacle — The character of the church : the character of the Priest 396; title: XX; title: EPILOGUE — MARY AND THE PRIEST; title: Our claim on her — Her power to help — Cultivating devotion to her — The atmosphere of heresy— Love of the Blessed Virgin in Catholic lands — The Vision of Dante — Practices of Piety for ourselves and our People 303; title: APPENDICES; title: I. : The Provincial Synods           311; title: II. : Rlgles sur Us manages en Anglettrre — The form of Marriage in French, German, and Italian 327