the spiritual combat and a treatise on peace of soul
Tác giả: Dom Lorenzo Scupoli
Ký hiệu tác giả: SC-D
DDC: 248.2 - Kinh nghiệm tôn giáo
Ngôn ngữ: Anh
Số cuốn: 1

Hiện trạng các bản sách

Mã số: 258SB0016985
Nhà xuất bản: Tan, Classics
Năm xuất bản: 1945
Khổ sách: 21
Số trang: 247
Kho sách: Thư viện Sao Biển
Tình trạng: Hiện có
CONTENTS  
PREFACE xi
THE SPIRITUAL COMBAT  
CHAPTER ONE 3
Preliminary Words on Perfection. In What Does Christian  
Perfection Consist? We Must Fight in Order to Attain It.  
The Four Things Necessary for This Combat  
CHAPTER TWO 9
Concerning Distrust of Self  
CHAPTER THREE 13
Confidence in God  
CHAPTER FOUR 17
How to Discover Whether We Distrust Ourselves and Place  
Our Confidence in God  
CHAPTER FIVE 19
The Mistake of Considering Cowardice a Virtue  
CHAPTER SIX 21
Further Advice on How to Obtain a Distrust of Oneself  
and Confidence in God  
CHAPTER SEVEN 23
The Right Use of Our Faculties. The Understanding Must  
First Be Free of Ignorance and Curiosity.  
CHAPTER EIGHT 25
An Obstacle to Forming a Correct Judgment. An Aid to the  
Formation of a Correct Judgment.  
CHAPTER NINE 27
Another Method to Prevent Deception of the Understanding  
CHAPTER TEN 31
The Exercise of the Will. The End to Which All of Our  
Actions, Interior and Exterior, Should Be Directed.  
CHAPTER ELEVEN 35
Some Considerations Which Will Incline the Will to Seek  
Only What is Pleasing to God  
CHAPTER TWELVE 37
The Opposition Within Man's Twofold Nature  
CHAPTER THIRTEEN 41
How We Are to Encounter Sensuality. What the Will Must  
Do to Acquire Virtuous Habits.  
CHAPTER FOURTEEN 45
What to Do When the Will Is Apparently Overpowered and  
Unable to Resist the Sensual Appetites  
CHAPTER FIFTEEN 49
Further Advice on How to Fight Skillfully. The Enemies  
We Are to Engage, and the Courage Necessary to Fight Them  
CHAPTER SIXTEEN 51
The Soldier of Christ Must Prepare Early for the Battle  
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 53
The Method of Fighting Your Passions and Vices  
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 55
How to Curb the Sudden Impulses of Your Passions  
CHAPTER NINETEEN 57
How We Are to Fight Against Impurity  
CHAPTER TWENTY 63
How to Combat Sloth  
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE 67
The Proper Use of Our Senses. How They May Help Us to  
Contemplate Divine Things  
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO 71
How Sensible Things May Aid Us to Meditate on the Passion  
And Death of Our Saviour  
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 73
Other Advantageous Uses of the Senses in Different  
Situations  
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR 79
How to Govern One's Speech  
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE 81
The Soldier of Christ, Resolved to Fight and Conquer His  
Enemies, Must Avoid, as Far as Possible, Anything That  
Intrudes Upon His Peace of Mind  
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX 85
What We Are to Do When Wounded.  
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN 89
The Methods Used by the Devil to Tempt and Seduce Those  
Who Desire to Acquire Virtue, and Those Who Are Still  
the Prisoners of Vice  
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT 91
The Cunning Devices Used by the Devil to Destroy  
Completely Those He Has Already Drawn Into Sin  
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE 93
The Efforts of the Devil to Prevent the Conversion of Those  
Who, Knowing the Diseased Character of Their Souls, Desire  
to Amend Their Lives. The Reason Why Their Good Intentions  
are Frequently Ineffectual.  
CHAPTER THIRTY 97
Concerning the Delusions of Some Who Consider Themselves  
On the Way to Perfection  
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE 99
Concerning the Artifices Employed by the Devil to Make Us  
Forsake the Virtuous Life  
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO 103
The Last Artifice of the Devil in Making Even the Practice  
of Virtue An Occasion of Sin  
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE 107
Some Important Instructions for Those Who Wish to Mortify  
Their Passions and Attain the Necessary Virtues  
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR 111
Virtues Are to Be Acquired One at a Time and by Degrees  
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE 113
The Most Profitable Means of Acquiring Virtue, and the  
Manner in Which We Are to Apply Ourselves to a Particular  
Virtue for a Time  
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX 117
The Practice of Virtue Requires Constant Application  
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN 119
Concerning the Necessity of Seizing Eagerly All Opportunities  
of Practicing Virtue Since Our Progress Must Be Constant  
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT 121
The Necessity of Esteeming All Opportunities of Fighting  
for the Acquisition of Virtues-Especially Those Virtues  
Which Present the Greatest Difficulties  
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE 125
The Manner in Which We May Exercise the Same Virtue on  
Different Occasions  
CHAPTER FORTY 127
The Time to be Employed in the Acquisition of Each Virtue  
and the Indications of Our Progress.  
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE 129
The Need of Moderation in the Desire to Be Freed of Those  
Evils Patiently Borne, and the Manner in Which Our Desires  
Are to Be Regulated  
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO 131
The Defense Against the Artifices of the Devil When He  
Suggests Indiscreet Devotions  
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE 135
The Tendency of Our Corrupt Natures, Prompted by the Devil,  
to Indulge in Rash Judgment, and the Remedy for This Evil  
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR 139
Prayer  
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE 143
Mental Prayer  
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX 145
Meditation  
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN 147
Another Method of Meditation  
CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT 149
A Method of Prayer Based on the Intercession of the  
Blessed Virgin  
CHAPTER FORTY-NINE 151
Some Considerations to Induce Confidence in the Assistance  
of the Blessed Virgin  
CHAPTER FIFTY 153
A Method of Meditation and Prayer Involving the Intercession  
of The Saints and the Angels  
CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE 155
Meditation on the Sufferings of Christ and the Sentiments  
to Be Derived From Contemplation of Them  
CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO 159
The Benefits Derived from Meditations on the Cross, and the  
Imitation of The Virtues of Christ Crucified  
CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE 163
Concerning the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist  
CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR 165
The Manner in Which We Ought to Receive the Blessed Sacrament  
CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE 169
Preparation for Communion, and the Role of the Eucharist  
in Exciting In Us a Love of God  
CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX 175
Concerning Spiritual Communion  
CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN 177
Concerning Thanksgiving  
CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT 179
The Offering of Self to God  
CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE 183
Concerning Sensible Devotion and Dryness  
CHAPTER SIXTY 189
Concerning the Examination of Conscience  
CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE 191
Concerning the Manner in Which We are to Persevere in the  
Spiritual Combat Until Death  
CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO 193
Concerning Our Preparation Against the Enemies Who Assail  
Us at the Hour of Death  
CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE 195
Concerning the Four Assaults of the Enemy at the Hour of  
Death. The First Assault Against Faith and the Manner of  
Resisting It  
CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR 197
Concerning the Assault of Despair and Its Remedy  
CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE 199
Concerning Temptation to Vainglory  
CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX 201
Concerning the Various Illusions Employed by the Devil at  
the Hour of Our Death  
TREATISE ON PEACE OF SOUL AND INNER HAPPINESS 205
CHAPTER ONE 207
The Nature of the Human Heart and the Way in Which It  
Should Be Governed  
CHAPTER TWO 209
The Care to be Exercised by the Soul in the Acquisition  
of Perfect Tranquility  
CHAPTER THREE 211
The Necessity of Building this Peaceful Habitation by  
Degrees  
CHAPTER FOUR 213
The Necessity of Relinquishing Human Consolations in the  
Acquisition of Inner Peace  
CHAPTER FIVE 215
The Necessity of Keeping the Soul Disengaged and in  
Solitude that God's Holy Will May Operate in It  
CHAPTER SIX 215
The Necessity of Our Love of Neighbor Being Guided by Prudence that Serenity of Soul be Not  
Disturbed  
CHAPTER SEVEN 217
The Necessity of Divesting Our Souls Entirely of Their Own Will, that They May Be Presented to God  
CHAPTER EIGHT 221
Concerning Our Faith in the Blessed Sacrament, and the Method by Which We are to Offer Ourselves to God  
CHAPTER NINE 223
True Happiness is Not to be Found in Pleasure or Comfort, but in God Alone  
CHAPTER TEN 225
The Necessity of Not Being Dejected at the Obstacles and Repugnance We Find in the Acquisition of This Interior Peace  
CHAPTER ELEVEN 227
Concerning the Artifices of the Devil to Destroy Our Peace of Soul, and The Methods of Combating Them  
CHAPTER TWELVE 229
The Necessity of Preserving Equanimity of Soul in the Midst of Internal Temptations  
CHAPTER THIRTEEN 231
God Permits Temptations for Our Ultimate Welfare  
CHAPTER FOURTEEN 235
The Mode of Behavior to be Adopted with Regard to Our Faults  
CHAPTER FIFTEEN 237
The Soul, Without Loss of Time, Should Compose Itself and Make Steady Progress  
THOUGHTS ON DEATH  
TWELVE ADVANTAGES 241
Twelve Advantages to Be Derived from the Contemplation of Death  
THOUGHTS ON PENANCE 243
Affective Penitence Of Heart 245
How We Are To Ask For It 245
How We Are To Labor To Attain It 246