A soldier's confidences with God
Subtitle: spiritual colloquies of Giosuè Borsi
Publisher: P.J. Kenedy & Sons
Published: 1919
Table of contents: title: BOOK ONE; title: COLLOQUY; title: I. The Convert Begins his Confidences with God 3; title: II. He, Like St. Francis of Assisi, Muses on the Supreme Blessing of Poverty 10; title: III. He Indicts the World — and Finds himself Guilty 17; title: IV. He Discourses on the Joy of Conversing with Gob 23; title: V. He Meditates on Communion and Venial Sins 32; title: VI. He Discourses upon Free Will 37; title: VII. He Determines to Be a Doer and not a Talker 49; title: VIII. He, Like Elias, Longs for Death 55; title: IX. He Realizes the Desolation of the Heart from which God has Withdrawn 68; title: X. He Meditates on God's Indulgence to Those who Do the best they Can   77; title: XI. He Reproaches himself for Pharisaical Vainglory 82; title: XII. He Discourses On The Folly Of Relying Too Much On The Forbearance Of God 87; title: XIII. He Breaks forth into a Rhapsody of Holy Love 95; title: XIV. He Philosophizes on the Seed that Perishes 102; title: XV. He Meditates upon the Infinite Love of God 109; title: XVI. He Gives himself up Wholly to the Love of God 117; title: BOOK TWO; title: XVII. He Finds out what is the Real Rest for the Soul 125; title: XVIII. He Reaches the Threshold of a New Life 138; title: XIX. He Delights in Anticipation of Holy Communion 143; title: XX. He Explains why he Holds Aloof from Agitation 145; title: XXI. He Reproves himself for his Pharisaical Aloofness 151; title: XXII. He Analyzes his Vanity and Sees the Fruitlessness Thereof 156; title: XXIII. He Reproves himself for an Ill-spent Day 162; title: XXIV. He Consigns to the Flames all the Writings of his Pagan Youth 163; title: XXV. He Finds that his Faith is of the Intellect AND NOT OF THE HEART 171; title: XXVI. He Applies St. James's Text to what he Thought Was his Wisdom 178; title: XXVII. He Continues the Searching Analysis of his Vaunted Virtues 182; title: XXVIII. He Begs for the Charity that Suffereth Long and is Kind 188; title: XXIX. He Sounds the Depths of his own Nothingness before God 192; title: XXX. The Glorious Prayer of the Christian Soldier Going forth to War 200; title: XXXI. He Meditates upon the Virtue of Tranquility 207; title: XXXII. He Meditates on the Imperturbable Serenity of Almighty God 211; title: XXXIII. He Reflects on the Inconstancy of his Nature, and how he Finds a Remedy 216; title: XXXIV. He Prays for the Blessing of God upon the Italian Arms 225; title: XXXV. He Reflects on the many Ways in which God is ever before the Man who Wants to Find Him 228; title: XXXVI. He Bids Farewell to All he Has Held Dear in Life 234; title: BOOK THREE; title: XXXVII. He Discourses on the Righteousness of Killing in a Holy War 247; title: XXXVIII. He Perceives how God Can Draw Blessings even from the Scourge of War 251; title: XXXIX. He Discovers that Victory Must be in himself 255; title: XL. He Makes up his Mind that Others May be Saved by Him 263; title: XLI. He Perceives the Wondrous Assistance he is to Have in the Work of Regeneration 270; title: XLII. He Reflects on the Triune Truth which is the Secret of Salvation 274; title: XLIII. He Applies the Truth to himself and is Ready for any Sacrifice 275; title: XLIV. He Reflects on the Horrors of War and the Consolation of Knowing God 282; title: XLV. He Meditates upon the Triumph of God in the Ruin of Worlds 286; title: XLVI. He Continues his Meditation on the Triumph of God 291; title: XLVII. He Prays Fervently for Italy and for her Victory 295; title: XLVIII. He Discovers how much more Courage it Takes to Face Life than to Face Death 302; title: XLIX. He Discovers why the Saints Reject the Merits of their Good Works 306; title: L. He Meditates on Pascal's Commentary on the Passion in the Garden of Gethsemane 312; title: LI. He Meditates on the Hypocrisy that Makes us Judge and Deceive our Neighbors 316; title: LII. He Reads Ezechiel's Prophecies of God's Wrath and Ultimate Triumph 320; title: III. He Foresees that the Word of Peace will Come, not from the Wise or Great of the World, but from Some Obscure Mouth 326; title: LIV. He Serenely Commends his Soul to God on the Eve of Battle 332; title: Giosuè Borsi's Last Letter to his Mother 337; title: Giosuè Borsi's Spiritual Will and Testament 351