An edition of The Spiritual Doctrine Of Father Louis Lallemant, Of The Company Of Jesus, Preceded By Some Account Of His Life
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The Spiritual Doctrine Of Father Louis Lallemant
Of The Company Of Jesus, Preceded By Some Account Of His Life
by Louis Lallemant and Frederick William Faber
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The Spiritual Doctrine Of Father Louis Lallemant, Of The Company Of Jesus, Preceded By Some Account Of His Life
July 25, 2007, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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The Spiritual Doctrine Of Father Louis Lallemant, Of The Company Of Jesus, Preceded By Some Account Of His Life
June 8, 2006, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS.
Advertisement 1
Life of Father Louis Lallemant 3
FIRST PRINCIPLE.
THE CONSIDERATION OF THE END.
CHAP.
I. God alone can make us happy 37
II. Our happiness depends on our perfect submission to God, who ought to reign alone in our hearts 41
SECOND PRINCIPLE.
THE IDEA OF PERFECTION.
SECTION I.
OF PERFECTION IN GENERAL.
I. The first act of a soul seeking perfection 43
Art. i. How we ought to seek God in all things, and to seek but Him alone 43
ii. We must give ourselves wholly to God 47
iii. How subtlety and dissimulation keep us far from God 49
II. The principal means of perfection 30
Art. i. The sacraments are the principal means of acquiring perfection 50
ii. The use of penances 51
III. The exercise of the virtues that are most necessary to perfection 52
Art. i. Of faith 52
III. Art. ii. How much our want of confidence displeases God and injures ourselves 54
iii. Of humility 56
iv. Of the love of crosses 59
SECTION II.
OF THE PERFECTION PECULIAR TO THE COMPANY OF JESUS.
I. Wherein consists the perfection peculiar to this Company 61
Art. i. The end of the institution of the Company of Jesus, and the means of arriving thereat 61
ii. The Company belongs to Jesus Christ as Saviour 63
iii. St. Ignatius the model of the perfection of the Company 64
II. Of the different dispositions of religious with regard to perfection 65
III. The motives that induce us to labour at our perfection 67
Art. i. The desire of our own salvation 67
ii. The order of a well-regulated zeal 68
iii. The fruit of our labours 68
iv. How many persons are interested in our perfection 69
IV. The means of perfection peculiar to the Company 70
Art. i. In what way the exercise of prayer in the Company should be practised 70
ii. The obedience and exact observance of the rules peculiar to our Company, and the motives thereto 72
V. Zeal for the salvation and perfection of our neighbour 74
Art. i. Motive for zeal 74
ii. What use we ought to make of knowledge, after the example of St. Ignatius 74
iii. The means by which the reputation and influence of the Company are to be maintained 75
VI. Divers counsels 77
Art. i. Advice to a teacher of young religious on their coming out of the noviciate 77
ii. Advice to the Fathers of the third year for the time of their noviciate 82
iii. Advice to the Fathers of the third year, on completing their noviciate, for their conduct during the rest of their life 86
VI. Art. iv. Advice to preachers 90
v. Advice for various employments in the Company 92
THIRD PRINCIPLE.
PURITY OF HEART.
I. Its nature and properties 96
Art. i. In what purity of heart consists 96
ii. How necessary purity of heart is to us 96
iii. The order to be observed in purity of heart, and the different degrees of purity 98
II. The things from which we must cleanse our hearts 100
Art. i. Venial sins 100
ii. The passions 103
iii. The fund of pride there is in us 105
iv. We must not neglect our least imperfections 109
v. Of the denial of our inclinations, in order to put ourselves in a state of holy indifference 110
vi. How we ought to comport ourselves with respect to divine graces, and with what self-abnegation we must receive them 113
III. The care we ought to take to preserve purity of heart in action 117
Art. i. We must perform our actions with a pure intention 117
ii. We ought to act on supernatural principles 118
IV. Mental causes of the corruption of the heart 118
Art. i. Error and false maxims 118
ii. Ignorance 119
V. External causes of the corruption of the heart 122
Art. i. The harm that results from particular friendships, and the conversations of the imperfect 122
ii. The faults we ought to avoid in conversation 123
iii. Of unprofitable visits and conversation 124
FOURTH PRINCIPLE.
OF THE GUIDANCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND DOCILITY THERETO.
I. The nature of docility to the guidance of the Holy Spirit 126
Art. i. In what this docility consists 126
ii. The means of attaining this docility 127
iii. Objections against this doctrine of the guidance of the Holy Spirit 128
II. The motives which lead us to the practice of this docility 131
Art. i. That perfection, and even salvation, depend on docility to grace 131 \
ii. There are but few perfect souls, because there are but few who follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit 135
iii The excellence of grace, and the injustice of the opposition we offer to it 137
iv. The Holy Spirit exercises the office of comforter to faithful souls 139
III. Of the gifts of the Holy Spirit in general 141
Art. i. Of the nature of the gifts of the Holy Spirit 141
ii. Of the effects of the gifts of the Holy Spirit 143
iii. Whence it comes that the gifts of the Holy Spirit produce so little effect in souls 147
IV. Of the gifts of the Holy Spirit in detail 150
Art i. Of the gift of wisdom 150
ii. Of the gift of understanding 158
iii. Of the gift of science 162
iv. Of the gift of counsel 171
v. Of the gift of piety 178
vi. Of the gift of fortitude 182
vii. Of the gift of the fear of God 188
V. Of the fruits of the Holy Spirit 193
Art. i. Of the nature of the fruits of the Holy Spirit 193
ii. Of the fruits of ckarity, joy, and peace 195
iii. Of the fruits of patience and meekness 198
iv. Of the fruits of goodness and benignity 199
v. Of Ihe fruits of longanimity 199
vi. Of the fruits of faith 199
vii. Of the fruits of modesty, temperance, and chastity 201
VI. The obstacles which the devil puts in our way in the practice of docility to the guidance of the Holy Spirit 202
Art. i. How the devil prevents our spiritual advancement 202
ii. Different artifices of the devil to deceive us 203
iii. Of distinguishing between the operations of God and those of the devil 205
iv. Secret illusions 206
v. Marks of a deluded soul 207
vi. What we ought to observe in the movements leading us to good 208
FIFTH PRINCIPLE.
RECOLLECTION, AND THE INTERIOR LIFE.
I. Of the nature and causes of the interior life 209
Art. i. In what the interior life consists 209
ii. How we ought to imitate the interior life of God 211
iii. How it is that we make so little progress in the interior life 212
II. Of the motives that lead us to the interior life 213
Art. i. We make no progress in the ways of perfection unless we give ourselves to the interior life 213
ii. W ithout prayer we cannot acquit ourselves of the duties of our vocation, nor gather fruit from our ministrations 215
iii. Peace is not found except in the interior life, and our dissatisfactions spring only from our not being interior men 219
III. The occupations of the interior life 220
Art. i. Of watchfulness over our interior 220
ii. How important it is that we should join the interior life with our exterior occupations 225
iii. We ought not to engage in exterior occupations of our own accord 227
IV. Advice for the interior life 228
Art i. We ought to cultivate the will more than the understanding 228
ii. The path of faith is a safer way to perfection than that of sensible graces 229
iii. The best mode of practising the virtues 229
IV. Art iii. The advantages of contemplation 301
iv. Contemplation, so far from being opposed thereto, is necessary to the Apostolic life 304
v. What contemplation is 306
vi. Of the properties and effects of contemplation 308
vii. Different divisions of the degrees of contemplation 312
viii. Another division of the degrees of contemplation 317
ix. Opinion on the above divisions 321
ADDITIONS.
I. Of perfection in general 327
Art. i. Motives that excite us to perfection 327
ii. Wherein perfection consists, and what dispositions we ought to bring thereto 327
iii. Of the practice of perfection 329
II. Of purity of heart 330
III. In what the faithful service of God consists 332
IV. Important advice for the advancement of souls 332
V. Of humility 333
VI. Of holy simplicity 334
VII. Of the spirit of devotion 335
VIII. Of different kinds of religious, and of the things that are most prejudicial to certain holy communities 337
IX. Of the spirit of the Company of Jesus 338
X. Of the kingdom of God in souls 344
Art. i. In what the kingdom of God consists, and its advantages 344
ii. Of the conduct of the kingdom of God 345
iii. Of the happiness of the kingdom of God 347
iv. Of the practice of the interior kingdom of God, or the means of establishing it within us 349
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