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Contents
PART I
Translator’s Preface
The Prayer: Soul of Christ
Introductory Observations
Title of the Exercises
Presupposition
First Principle and Foundation
First Week
Daily Particular Examination of Conscience
Additional Directions for Examination of Conscience
Note
General Examination of Conscience
Thoughts
Words
Deeds
Method
General Confession and Communion
First Exercise on the First, Second, and Third Sin
Note on Colloquies
Second Exercise, A Meditation on Our Sins
Third Exercise, A Repetition of the First and Second
Fourth Exercise, A Summary of the Third
Fifth Exercise, A Meditation on Hell
(Other Exercises)
Note
Additional Directions
Penance
Notes
The Kingdom of Christ
First Day, First Contemplation, the Incarnation
First Day, Second Contemplation, the Nativity
First Day, Third Contemplation, Repetition of the First and Second
First Day, Fourth Contemplation, Second Repetition
First Day, Fifth Contemplation, Application of Senses
Note
Second Day
Note
Third Day
Introduction to the Consideration of Different States of Life
Fourth Day, A Meditation on Two Standards
Note
Fourth Day, Three Classes of Men
Note
Fifth Day
Notes
Sixth to Twelfth Day
Notes
Three Kinds of Humility
Note
Introduction to Making a Choice of a Way of Life
Matters About Which a Choice Should Be Made
Note
Three Times When a Correct and Good Choice May Be Made
Two Ways of Making a Good Choice in the Third Time
First Way of Making a Good and Correct Choice
Second Way of Making a Good and Correct Choice
Directions for the Reformation of One’s Life
Third Week
Third Week
First Day, First Contemplation
Note on Colloquies
First Day Second Contemplation
Notes
Second to Seventh Day
Note
Rules with Regard to Eating
Fourth Week
First Contemplation
Notes
Contemplation to Attain Love of God
Take, Lord, and Receive
Three Methods of Prayer
The First Method of Prayer
I. On the Commandments
II. On the Capital Sins
III. On the Three Powers of the Soul
IV. On the Five Senses
The Second Method of Prayer
The Third Method of Prayer
Mysteries of the Life of Our Lord
Mysteries of the Life of Our Lord
Rules
Rules for the Discernment of Spirits
I. For the First Week
II. For the Second Week
Rules for the Distribution of Alms
Some Notes on Scruples
Rules for Thinking with the Church
Notes on the Translation
Part II SELECTED POEMS OF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, SJ
Spring
God’s Grandeur
The May Magnificat
As kingfishers catch fire
Thou art indeed just, Lord
The Starlight Night
The Windhover
Spring and Fall
Carrion Comfort
No worst, there is none
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day
To seem the stranger lies my lot
Patience
My own heart let me have more pity on
Peace
Pied Beauty
Hurrahing in Harvest
The Sea and the Skylark
Inversnaid
The Lantern out of Doors
Duns Scotus’s Oxford
Binsey Poplars
The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe
The Wreck of the Deutschland
Morning Midday and Evening Sacrifice
Heaven-Haven
The Habit of Perfection
In honour of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, Laybrother of the Society of Jesus
The Bugler’s First Communion
At the Wedding March
Felix Randal
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection
Adoro Te Devote
Part III SELECTED LETTERS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, SJ
Here I am, Lord, I Come to Do Your Will
Proclaim Repentance and Forgiveness to All Nations
These Signs Will Accompany Those Who Believe
The Harvest Is Plentiful, But the Laborers Are Few
Those Who Lose Their Life Will Find It
How Are They to Believe in Him of Whom They Have Not Heard?
Make Me to Know Your Ways, O Lord; Teach Me Your Paths
Bring My Sons from Far Away, and My Daughters from the End of the Earth
When You Come to Serve the Lord, Prepare Yourself for Trials
All the Nations Shall Glorify Your Name
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