Practice of mental prayer. First Treatise, Ordinary Prayer

Practice of mental prayer. First Treatise, Ordinary Prayer

Author: Maumigny, René de., 1837-

Year: 1913

Practice of mental prayer. First Treatise, Ordinary Prayer [you are here] Practice Of Mental Prayer Second Treatise; Extraordinary Prayer CONTENTS Preface 12 PART I Excellence and Advantages of Menial Prayer. 1. Excellence of Prayer 13 II. First and Second Advantage of Prayer! It Ensures our Salvation and Enriches us with Numerous Merits 16 III. Third Advantage of Prayer: It Leads to Christian Perfection 21 IV. Fourth Advantage of Prayer: It Causes the Soul to Taste Spiritual Joys Incomparably Superior to All the False Pleasures of the World 28 V. Fifth Advantage of Prayer: It Gives Apostolic Works their True Fruit 32 PART II The Principal Acts of Prayer. I. Preparation for Prayer 37 II. The First Act: That of Placing Oneself in the Presence of God, which must never be Omitted in Beginning Meditation 43 III. Second Preliminary Act: Adoration 49 IV. Third Preliminary Act: Petition to the Holy Ghost for Grace 52 V. Exercise of the Imagination and of the Sensitive Appetite 56 VI. Exercise of the Memory and Understanding 59 VII. The Acts of Faith, the most Perfect of the Acts which the Intellect can Make in Prayer 63 VIII. Why Acts of the Will are more Important than those of the Under