Spiritual Combat

Name: Spiritual Combat | And a Treatise on Peace of Soul
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And a Treatise on Peace of Soul

Dom Lorenzo Scupoli(Autor*in)

TAN Books (Verlag)

Erschienen am 1. April 2010

266 Seiten

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Intro
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Contents
The Spiritual Combat
Chapter One: 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: Concerning Distrust of Self
Chapter Three: Confidence in God
Chapter Four: How to Discover Whether We Distrust Ourselves and Place Our Confidence in God
Chapter Five: The Mistake of Considering Cowardice a Virtue
Chapter Six: Further Advice on How to Obtain a Distrust of Oneself and Confidence in God
Chapter Seven: The Right Use of Our Faculties. The Understanding Must First Be Free of Ignorance and Curiosity.
Chapter Eight: An Obstacle to Forming a Correct Judgment. An Aid to the Formation of a Correct Judgment.
Chapter Nine: Another Method to Prevent Deception of the Understanding
Chapter Ten: The Exercise of the Will. The End to Which All of Our Actions, Interior and Exterior, Should Be Directed.
Chapter Eleven: Some Considerations Which Will Incline the Will To Seek Only What is Pleasing to God
Chapter Twelve: The Opposition Within Man's Twofold Nature
Chapter Thirteen: How We are to Encounter Sensuality. What the Will Must Do to Acquire Virtuous Habits.
Chapter Fourteen: What to Do When the Will Is Apparently Overpowered and Unable to Resist the Sensual Appetites.
Chapter Fifteen: Further Advice on How to Fight Skillfully. The Enemies We are to Engage, and the Courage Necessary to Fight Them.
Chapter Sixteen: The Soldier of Christ Must Prepare Early for the Battle
Chapter Seventeen: The Method of Fighting Your Passions and Vices
Chapter Eighteen: How to Curb the Sudden Impulses of Your Passions
Chapter Nineteen: How We Are to Fight Against Impurity
Chapter Twenty: How to Combat Sloth
Chapter Twenty-One: The Proper Use of Our Senses. How They May Help Us to Contemplate Divine Things.
Chapter Twenty-Two: How Sensible Things May Aid Us to Meditate on The Passion and Death of Our Saviour
Chapter Twenty-Three: Other Advantageous Uses of the Senses in Different Situations
Chapter Twenty-Four: How to Govern One's Speech
Chapter Twenty-Five: 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: What We Are to Do When Wounded
Chapter Twenty-Seven: 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: The Cunning Devices Used By the Devil to Destroy Completely Those He has Already Drawn Into Sin
Chapter Twenty-Nine: 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: Concerning the Delusions of Some Who Consider Themselves on the Way to Perfection
Chapter Thirty-One: Concerning the Artifices Employed by the Devil to Make Us Forsake the Virtuous Life
Chapter Thirty-Two: The Last Artifice of the Devil in Making Even the Practice of Virtue an Occasion of Sin
Chapter Thirty-Three: Some Important Instructions for Those Who Wish to Mortify Their Passions and Attain the Necessary Virtues
Chapter Thirty-Four: Virtues are to be Acquired One at a Time and By Degrees
Chapter Thirty-Five: 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: The Practice of Virtue Requires Constant Application
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Concerning the Necessity of Seizing Eagerly All Opportunities of Practicing Virtue Since Our Progress Must Be Constant
Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Necessity of Esteeming All Opportunities Of Fighting for the Acquisition of Virtues-Especially Those Virtues Which Present the Greatest Difficulties
Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Manner in Which We May Exercise the Same Virtue On Different Occasions
Chapter Forty: The Time to be Employed in the Acquisition Of Each Virtue and the Indications of Our Progress
Chapter Forty-One: 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: The Defense Against the Artifices of the Devil When He Suggests Indiscreet Devotions
Chapter Forty-Three: The Tendency of Our Corrupt Natures, Prompted by the Devil, To Indulge in Rash Judgment, and the Remedy for This Evil
Chapter Forty-Four: Prayer
Chapter Forty-Five: Mental Prayer
Chapter Forty-Six: Meditation
Chapter Forty-Seven: Another Method of Meditation
Chapter Forty-Eight: A Method of Prayer Based on the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin
Chapter Forty-Nine: Some Considerations to Induce Confidence In the Assistance of the Blessed Virgin
Chapter Fifty: A Method of Meditation and Prayer Involving the Intercession of the Saints and the Angels
Chapter Fifty-One: Meditation on the Sufferings of Christ and the Sentiments to Be Derived From Contemplation of Them
Chapter Fifty-Two: The Benefits Derived from Meditations on the Cross, And the Imitation of the Virtues of Christ Crucified
Chapter Fifty-Three: Concerning the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist
Chapter Fifty-Four: The Manner in Which We Ought to Receive the Blessed Sacrament
Chapter Fifty-Five: Preparation for Communion, and the Role of the Eucharist in Exciting in Us a Love of God
Chapter Fifty-Six: Concerning Spiritual Communion
Chapter Fifty-Seven: Concerning Thanksgiving
Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Offering of Self to God
Chapter Fifty-Nine: Concerning Sensible Devotion and Dryness
Chapter Sixty: Concerning the Examination of Conscience
Chapter Sixty-One: Concerning the Manner in Which We are to Persevere in the Spiritual Combat Until Death
Chapter Sixty-Two: Concerning Our Preparation Against the Enemies Who Assail Us at the Hour of Death
Chapter Sixty-Three: 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: Concerning the Assault of Despair and Its Remedy
Chapter Sixty-Five: Concerning Temptation to Vainglory
Chapter Sixty-Six: Concerning the Various Illusions Employed By the Devil at the Hour of Our Death
Treatise on Peace of Soul: And Inner Happiness
Chapter One: The Nature of the Human Heart and the Way in Which it Should be Governed
Chapter Two: The Care to be Exercised by the Soul in the Acquisition of Perfect Tranquillity
Chapter Three: The Necessity of Building this Peaceful Habitation by Degrees
Chapter Four: The Necessity of Relinquishing Human Consolations in the Acquisition of Inner Peace
Chapter Five: The Necessity of Keeping the Soul Disengaged and in Solitude that God's Holy Will May Operate In It
Chapter Six: The Necessity of Our Love of Neighbor Being Guided By Prudence that Serenity of Soul Be Not Disturbed
Chapter Seven: The Necessity of Divesting Our Souls Entirely of Their Own Will, that They May Be Presented to God
Chapter Eight: Concerning Our Faith in the Blessed Sacrament, And the Method by Which We Are to Offer Ourselves to God
Chapter Nine: True Happiness is Not to be Found in Pleasure or Comfort, but in God Alone
Chapter Ten: The Necessity of Not Being Dejected at the Obstacles and Repugnance We Find in the Acquisition of This Interior Peace
Chapter Eleven: Concerning the Artifices of the Devil to Destroy Our Peace of Soul, And the Method of Combating Them
Chapter Twelve: The Necessity of Preserving Equanimity of Soul In the Midst of Internal Temptations
Chapter Thirteen: God Permits Temptations for Our Ultimate Welfare
Chapter Fourteen: The Mode of Behavior to be Adopted With Regard to Our Faults
Chapter Fifteen: The Soul, Without Loss of Time, Should Compose Itself and Make Steady Progress
Thoughts on Death
Twelve Advantages: Twelve Advantages to Be Derived From the Contemplation of Death
Thoughts on Penance
Affective Penitence of Heart
How We Are to Ask For It
How We Are To Labor To Attain It

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