The Spiritual Letters of Archbishop Fénelon: Letters to Men

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1902 - 311 pages
 

Contents

Avoiding Scruples
33
Evils of a Disdainful Manner
35
Concerning Scruples about Common Things
36
Real Humility
38
How to meet Trial
41
The same Subject
43
Prejudice
44
Peace amid Trial
46
Not to postpone Plans of Amendment
48
A Holy Life possible Everywhere
49
The Practice of Recollection at Bytimes
67
To the Comtesse de Montberon to Letter LXI
74
On the Death of the Same
82
Danger of Scruples
89
LETTER PAGE XLIV How to accept Encouragement ΠΟΙ
101
Discretion in Practice
102
Dangers of a Selftormenting Spirit
104
Selfwill in Religious Exercises
107
Gods Gifts to be welcomed from whatever Source
108
I see another Law warring against the Law of my Mind
110
Separated Friends meet in God III
111
Perseverance
114
Of some Social Perils
115
Selfdeceit
117
On the Privation of Sensible Sweetness
120
The Struggles of Selfwill
122
The Cross Everywhere
124
On being kept back from a Sermon
125
The Danger of Selfchosen Plans
126
To the Marquise de Risbourg On Selfseeking in Friendship
127
On Slackness in Religious Life
128
To a Lady the same till No LXX Hearkening to God
131
On giving way to the Imagination
132
The same Subject
133
On Meditation
134
LETTER PAGE LXVIII The Value of Privations
135
How to use Eager Aspirations
136
To a Lady living in the World On her Desire for Knowledge
137
Dangers of Human Applause
139
How to bear Affronts
141
Recollection in a Life of Restraint
143
Patience under Contradiction
145
Benefits of looking Death in the Face
146
The Necessity and Benefit of Suffering
147
Need of calming Natural Activity
149
Forbearance to Others
150
To One entering the Religious Life On Calm ness of Mind
151
All for God
154
To a Religious in Illness
168
On Dryness in Devotion
169
How to use Seasons of Spiritual Peace
171
LETTER PAGE XCII On the Prospect of Death in Old Age
173
On some Difficulties of Temperament
174
To a Lady recovering from Sickness
178
Combined Exactitude and Freedom
180
To One in Retirement
184
Forbearance to Others and to Self
186
On seeking Help in Interior Trouble
188
On Openness and Candour
189
Selflove
191
To a Lady Concerning certain Family Difficul ties
192
To a Lady who was Anxious concerning her Son
193
God to be served in Ordinary Ways
195
How to accept all Gods Dealings thankfully
197
Selfconsciousness
199
Fearfulness
202
To a Lady in Sickness
203
To the Same
205
To One suffering from Jealousy
207
The Restlessness of Selfconceit
209
To a Lady On the Death of her Husband
210
To the Duchesse de Chevreuse some time after her Husbands Death
212
To the Young Duchesse de Montemart On some Domestic Troubles
215
LETTER PAGE CXV To the Duchesse Douairière de Montemart On bearing Reproof
218
To the Same In Reply to some Questions con cerning Selfknowledge
220
To the Same On Crosses
225
To La Sour Charlotte de SaintCyprien On the Dangers of Intellectual Attractions
227
To the Same On the same Subject
228
To the Same Sickness a true Penitential Exercise
229
To La Mère Marie de LAscension the Archbishops Niece On the Duties of a Superior
232
To One about to enter the Religious Life On Indecision and Weakness
235
To a Novice about to be professed
238
To a Lady On Confession and Communion
239
On the Employment of Time
245
To One living in the World On the Lawfulness of Amusements
248
To a Lady at Court The Burden of Pro sperity
257
To a Lady at Court Gods various Crosses
261
On Excessive Sensitiveness to Trials
266
Gods Severity all Love
268
Christian Perfection
271
Simplicity and Selfconsciousness
277
The Presence of God
291
On Conformity to the Will of God
295
Inward Peace
300
On Gratitude
307
CXXXVIII The Life of Peace
310

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Page 130 - Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Page 260 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Page 283 - But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment; yea, I judge not mine own. self ; (for I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified;) but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
Page 141 - Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you; and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly of heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Page 290 - For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Page 53 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much : and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Page 204 - Son, for mine own part I have no further delight in any thing in this life. What I do here any longer, and to what end I am here, I know not, now that my hopes in this world are accomplished. One thing there was for which I desired to linger for a while in this life, that I might see thee a Catholic Christian before I died. My God hath done this for me more abundantly, that I should now see thee withal, despising earthly happiness, become His servant: what do I here?
Page 181 - For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Page 167 - And why ? I was grieved at the wicked : I do also see the ungodly in such prosperity.
Page 204 - It is only by dying to other things that we are fitted for physical death. Some people often dwell upon the thought of death without accepting the " death unto self," whereas that makes people indifferent to bodily death, even when they are not specially thinking of it. S. Augustine tells us how his mother, S. Monica, said to him, " Son, for mine own part I have no further delight in anything in this life. What I do here any longer, and to what end I am here, I know not.

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