Practice of mental prayer
Subtitle: First Treatise, Ordinary Prayer
Publisher: P. J. Kenedy and Sons
Published: 1913
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Preface 12; title: PART I; title: Excellence and Advantages of Menial Prayer.; title: 1. Excellence of Prayer 13; title: II. First and Second Advantage of Prayer! It Ensures our Salvation and Enriches us with Numerous Merits 16; title: III. Third Advantage of Prayer: It Leads to Christian Perfection 21; title: IV. Fourth Advantage of Prayer: It Causes the Soul to Taste Spiritual Joys Incomparably Superior to All the False Pleasures of the World 28; title: V. Fifth Advantage of Prayer: It Gives Apostolic Works their True Fruit 32; title: PART II; title: The Principal Acts of Prayer.; title: I. Preparation for Prayer 37; title: II. The First Act: That of Placing Oneself in the Presence of God, which must never be Omitted in Beginning Meditation 43; title: III. Second Preliminary Act: Adoration 49; title: IV. Third Preliminary Act: Petition to the Holy Ghost for Grace 52; title: V. Exercise of the Imagination and of the Sensitive Appetite 56; title: VI. Exercise of the Memory and Understanding 59; title: VII. The Acts of Faith, the most Perfect of the Acts which the Intellect can Make in Prayer 63; title: VIII. Why Acts of the Will are more Important than those of the Understanding 67; title: IX. The Act of Hope 71; title: X. Charity or Pure Love of God Consists in Desiring Every Kind of Good Thing for God, because He is Infinitely Worthy of it on Account of His Infinite Perfections 78; title: XI. A Soul in which there is the Pure Love of Charity strives furthermore towards Union with God, so as to no longer Live for Itself but for God 83; title: XII. Charity is a Love not only out of Benevolence, but also of Friendship between God and the Just Man 89; title: XIII. Charity Requires that we Love God above all Things 94; title: XIV. How the Two Kinds of Love — Affective and Effective — should be Exercised during Prayer 98; title: XV. We must Consider God as our Supreme Benefactor in order to Gain a Love of Him 102; title: XVI. To Obtain the Love of God we must Regard Him as the Creator and Sovereign Lord of all Things 110; title: XVII. To Obtain the Love of God we must Look upon God as our Best Friend 114; title: XVIII. To Gain the Love of God we must Consider Him as the Best of Fathers 121; title: XIX. In Course of Prayer we should make Acts of Pure Love, Benevolence and Friendship not only towards God in His Divine Nature, but also towards the Word Incarnate, Jesus Christ our Lord, and especially towards Jesus Crucified 127; title: XX. The Sorrowing Love of Contrition 138; title: XXI. Adoration and Thanksgiving 141; title: XXII. How Prayer Properly so-called, or Petition, Ensures Salvation 146; title: XXIII. Prayer must be Humble, Confident and Persistent, if it is, without Fail, to secure Salvation 151; title: XXIV. Prayer for Temporal Favors is Good, but not Infallible 157; title: XXV. Different Ways of Praying 160; title: XXVI. The Circumstances in which Petition is especially Fitting 166; title: XXVII. Oblation 170; title: XXVIII. The End of Meditation 174; title: XXIX. Reflection 176; title: XXX. The Time, Duration, Place and Posture most Fitting for Meditation 179; title: PART III; title: Affective Prayer,; title: I. The Nature of Affective Prayer 185; title: II. The Advantages and Dangers of Affective Prayer 194; title: III. How far may Affective Prayer be Simplified? 206; title: IV. Frequent Elevation of the Heart to God 209; title: PART IV; title: Difficulties in Prayer.; title: CHAPTER PAGE; title: I. First Difficulty: Distractions 219; title: II. Second Difficulty: Dryness of Soul 221; title: III. Third Difficulty: Weariness 227; title: IV. Fourth Difficulty: Discouragement and Want of Perseverance 232; title: V. Fifth Difficulty: To Learn how to Meditate 235; title: VI. Sixth Difficulty: Inability to Follow a Course of Reasoning 244; title: PART V; title: Methods of Prayer in the Exercises of St, Ignatius.; title: I. The Method of Contemplation and its Perfection 255; title: II. The General Method of Contemplation Applied; title: Particularly to the Mysteries of Our Lord's Life 265; title: III. Method of Prayer Entitled Application of the Five Senses 283; title: IV. Method of Prayer Entitled the Second Method of Prayer 291; title: V. Method of Prayer Entitled the Third Method of Prayer 297; title: VI. The Annotations of the Exercises 300; title: VII. The Additions of the Exercises 312