Translator’s Preface 

The Prayer: Soul of Christ 

Introductory Observations  

Title of the Exercises  

Presupposition 

First Principle and Foundation 

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 

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  

First Day, First Contemplation 

Note on Colloquies 
First Day Second Contemplation  

Notes 

Second to Seventh Day  

Note 

Rules with Regard to Eating 

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 

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 

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