An edition of A soldier's confidences with God
(1918)
A soldier's confidences with God
Spiritual Colloquies Of Giosuè Borsi
by Giosuè Borsi
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Contents
BOOK ONE
COLLOQUY PAGE
I. The Convert Begins his Confidences With God 3
II. He, Like St. Francis of Assisi, Muses on the Supreme Blessing of Poverty 10
III. He Indicts the World — and Finds himself Guilty 17
IV. He Discourses on the Joy of Conversing with God 23
V. He Meditates on Communion and Venial Sins 32
VI. He Discourses upon Free Will 37
VII. He Determines to Be a Doer and not A Talker 49
VIII. He, Like Elias, Longs for Death 55
IX. He Realizes the Desolation of the Heart from which God has Withdrawn 68
X. He Meditates on God's Indulgence to Those who Do the best they Can 77
XI. He Reproaches himself for Pharisaical Vainglory 82
XII. He Discourses on the Folly of Relying Too Much On The Forbearance OF God 87
XIII. He Breaks forth into a Rhapsody of Holy Love 95
XIV. He Philosophizes on the Seed that Perishes 102
XV. He Meditates upon the Infinite Love OF God 109
XVI. He Gives himself up Wholly to the Love of God 117
XVII. He Finds out what is the Real Rest for the Soul 125
BOOK TWO
XVIII. He Reaches the Threshold of a New Life 138
XIX. He Delights in Anticipation of Holy Communion 143
XX. He Explains Why He Holds Aloof From Agitation 145
XXI. He Reproves Himself For His Pharisaical Aloofness 151
XXII. He Analyzes His Vanity And Sees The Fruitlessness Thereof 156
XXIII. He Reproves Himself For An Ill-Spent Day 162
XXIV. He Consigns To The Flames All The Writings Of His Pagan Youth 163
XXV. He Finds That His Faith Is Of The Intellect And Not Of The Heart 171
XXVI. He Applies St. James's Text To What He Thought Was His Wisdom 178
XXVII. He Continues The Searching Analysis Of His Vaunted Virtues 182
XXVIII. He Begs For The Charity That Suffereth Long And Is Kind L88
XXIX. He Sounds The Depths Of His Own Nothingness Before God 192
XXX. The Glorious Prayer Of The Christian Soldier Going Forth To War 200
XXXI. He Meditates Upon The Virtue Of Tranquility 207
XXXII. He Meditates On The Imperturbable Serenity Of Almighty God 211
XXXIII. He Reflects On The Inconstancy Of His Nature, And How He Finds A Remedy 216
XXXIV. He Prays For The Blessing Of God Upon The Italian Arms 225
XXXV. He Reflects On The Many Ways In Which God Is Ever Before The Man Who Wants To Find Him 228
XXXVI. He Bids Farewell To All He Has Held Dear In Life 234
BOOK THREE
XXXVII. He Discourses On The Righteousness Of Killing In A Holy War 247
XXXVIII. He Perceives How God Can Draw Blessings Even From The Scourge Of War 251
XXXIX. He Discovers That Victory Must Be In Himself 255
Xl. He Makes Up His Mind That Others May Be Saved By Him 263
XLI. He Perceives The Wondrous Assistance He Is To Have In The Work Of Regeneration 270
XLII. He Reflects On The Triune Truth Which Is The Secret Of Salvation 274
XLIII. He Applies The Truth To Himself And Is Ready For Any Sacrifice 275
XLIV. He Reflects On The Horrors Of War And The Consolation Of Knowing God 282
XLV. He Meditates Upon The Triumph Of God In The Ruin Of Worlds 286
XLVI. He Continues His Meditation On The Triumph Of God 291
XLVII. He Prays Fervently For Italy And For Her Victory 295
XLVIII. He Discovers How Much More Courage It Takes To Face Life Than To Face Death 302
XLIX. He Discovers Why The Saints Reject The Merits Of Their Good Works 306
L. He Meditates On Pascal's Commentary On The Passion In The Garden Of Gethsemane 312
LI. He Meditates On The Hypocrisy That Makes Us Judge And Deceive Our Neighbors 316
LII. He Reads Ezechiel's Prophecies Of God's Wrath And Ultimate Triumph 320
LIII. He Foresees that the Word of Peace WILL Come, not from the Wise or Great of the World, but from Some Obscure Mouth 326
LIV. He Serenely Commends his Soul to God on the Eve of Battle 332
Giosue Borsi's Last Letter to his Mother 337
Giosue Borsi's Spiritual Will and Testament 351
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