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CHAPTER VII. Examination as to the Affectations of the Soul. I HAVE dwelt thus at length on these points, on a due examination of which…
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CHAPTER VI. Examination of the Soul’s Condition as regards our Neighbour. HUSBAND and wife are bound to love one another with a tender, abiding, restful…
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CHAPTER V. Examination of your Condition as regards yourself. 1. HOW do you love yourself? Is it a love which concerns this life chiefly? If…
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CHAPTER IV. Examination of the Soul’s Condition as regards God. 1. WHAT is the aspect of your heart with respect to mortal sin? Are you…
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CHAPTER II. Meditation on the Benefit conferred on us by God in calling us to His Service. 1. CONSIDER the points on which you are…
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CHAPTER XV. An Illustration. LET me illustrate what I have said by an anecdote of Saint Bernard. It is common to most beginners in God’s…
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CHAPTER XI. Anxiety of Mind. ANXIETY of mind is not so much an abstract temptation, as the source whence various temptations arise. Sadness, when defined,…
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CHAPTER III. Of Temptations, and the difference between experiencing them and consenting to them. PICTURE to yourself a young princess beloved of her husband, to…
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CHAPTER XLI. One Word to Maidens. O YE virgins, I have but a word to say to you. If you look to married life in…
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CHAPTER XL. Counsels to Widows. SAINT PAUL teaches us all in the person of S. Timothy when he says, “Honour widows that are widows indeed.”…