Comfort and consolation for the sick and afflicted. With mass and prayers for the sick and for the dead.
Publisher: Thomas Richardson and Son
Published: 1884
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: BOOK I.; title: PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CARE OF THE SICK.; title: Chap. I.— The Sick; title: Directions for the Sick 3; title: In what manner those in charge of the Sick should act 6; title: Chap. II.— The Dying 8; title: Chap. III.— The Last Sacraments 13; title: Directions for the Commnnion of the Sick and administration of Extreme Unction 19; title: Chap. IV.— The Dead : the Body 21; title: Before the Burial 22; title: The Burial 23; title: Chap. V.— The Souls of the Dead 25; title: How to help them 28; title: Chap. VI.— The Grave 31; title: The Happiness of the Body 89; title: The Happiness of the Soul 48; title: Farewell— Adieu ! 46; title: The Hope of meeting again in Heaven 50; title: Letter of St Jerome 56; title: Letter of St. Francis de Sales 77; title: Letter of Fenelon to a Lady 78; title: Extracts from some of Fenelon's Letters 80; title: Let us think of Heaven 84; title: Letter of St. Leger to his mother 97; title: BOOK II.; title: CONSOLATION.; title: We meet again in Heaven 99; title: Reflections at a grave 104; title: Two dwellings where nothing passes away 104; title: O nothingness of human hopes 105; title: In its last end my soul shall also leave its miserable body 107; title: Temporary expiation 108; title: Piety towards the Dead 109; title: Means of Relieving the Dead 110; title: 1. Prayer 110; title: 2. Good Works 114; title: We are too forgetful of the Dead 115; title: He passed through death, but did not remain there 119; title: Do yon mourn the seed which you have sown in the ground  122; title: What ends soon is always short 123; title: Ah I how happy we shall be if we are altogether in heaven 125; title: "Be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope" 126; title: In Heaven we know our own 128; title: Sorrow and Resignation of a mother who weeps for the death of her child 141; title: The mystery of sorrow imposed on mothers 143; title: Faith 147; title: Hope 156; title: Charity 163; title: Consolation in suffering 170; title: BOOK III.; title: A Votive Mass for the Sick 177; title: Litany for a Happy Death 182; title: Prayers for deliverance from sudden death 186; title: Preparation for death 191; title: Exhortation said by the Priest before administering the Blessed Eucharist to the Sick 195; title: Exhortation after Communion 199; title: „ before Extreme Unction 201; title: „ after Extreme Unction 204; title: Questions to excite the Sick to make Acts of the necessary Virtues 207; title: Short Acts of the most necessary virtues, to be suggested to the Sick 209; title: Before the Last Benediction 211; title: Recommendation of a Departing Soul 213; title: Prayers to be said by the Dying Person 224; title: Acts of Thanksgiving, Resignation, &c. 228; title: BOOK IV.; title: Mass for the Dead 283; title: Dies Iras 236; title: Various Prayers for the Dead 250; title: Deprofundis 254; title: Miserere 256; title: Prayers from the Office of the Dead 260; title: Heroic Act of Charity for the Souls in Purgatory 262