INDEX.

resignation towards God, 68.

delight in God, 69.

zeal for God's honour and the salvation of souls, 70.
fear of God, 72.

contrition, in the form of a prayer for forgiveness, 194.
self-accusation, 196.

compunction and hatred for sin, 245.

prayer to God, 249.

good resolution, 246.

humility and self-knowledge, 248.

renunciation of pleasures, 251.

renunciation of temporal goods, 252.

renunciation of self-will, 253.

charity, to be elicited from any thing, good or evil, in crea-
tion, 257.

Act, heroic, to be entered into with God, 278.

of thanksgiving after communion, 345.

Actions, daily prayer for recommendation of, to God, 280.
Acts of virtue, method of aspiring to union with God by, 57.

to be elicited from any good which we hear of or see in our neigh-
bour, 255.

to be elicited from any evil which we hear of or see in our neigh-

bour, 256.

in connexion with the Rosary, 462.

Affections, virtuous, method of eliciting, 72.

form for exciting the, after confession, 199.

Agreement of love with God, 86.

Almsgiving seasonable before death, 553.

Ambrose, St., on penance, 204.

prayer from, at the commemoration of the dead, 397.
on the B. V. Mary, 576.

Amendment, prayer for, 176.

purpose of, 283.

Angel-guardian, honour and veneration of, 101.

prayers to, 107.

Holy, hymn to the, 132.

Anger, prayer against, 176.
Apostle, prayer to any holy, 111.
Aspiration of the mind to God, 254.
Aspiration, hourly, 285.

at the time of communion, 341.

to Christ before Mass, 377.

during the day to the holy Name of Jesus, 510.
hourly, to Jesus for a happy death, 515.

before any work, 523.

to B. V. Mary, 591.

in sickness and adversity, 628.

during the agony of death, 650.

Aspirations, thirty-three, in honour of the years of our Lord's Life,

520.

holy, during the recitation of the rosary, 602.

Assistance, divine, prayer for, 11.

of B. V. Mary at the hour of death, prayer for, 605.
Attributes of God, contemplation of, 72.
Avarice, prayer against, 174.

Augustine, St., on penance, 204.

prayer from, after the elevation, 397.

exhortation of, to pray to Mary with all our strength,
590.

Author, notice of the, iii.

Bernard, St., on observance of the festivals of saints, 114.
oblation of, for forgiveness of sins, 178.
hymn of, to Christ Jesus, 516.

prayer of, to B. V. Mary, 355, 597.

prayer of, before death, 651.

Bonaventure, St., oblation of, before celebration, 371.

prayer after communion, 405.

Bounty of God, contemplation of, 79.

Bridget, St., fifteen prayers of, on the Passion, 492.
Canon, prayer at the, 393.

Care of the body, oblation of the, 54.

Celebration and communion, short exercise before, 362.

Chalice, prayer at the elevation of the, 396.

Charity, prayed for in the Lord's Prayer, 236.

act of, to be elicited from any thing good or evil in Creation,
257.

exercise of, 261.

exercise of, before communion, 337, 359.

act of sincere, as a step to a happy death, 623.
exercise of, before death, 646.

Christ, the Way of Life, 211.

proposed for our imitation, 423.

glorious, pleasant, and profitable to follow, 428.
in what the following of, consists, 429.

to be imitated in his humility and meekness, 432.

the example of poverty, and contempt for earthly things, 433.

Christ, the example of patience, 435.

the example of charity, 436.

sum-total of virtue in the cross of, 437.
Christ, the titles of, commemorated, 442.

hymn of the life, Passion, and merits of, 482.
Jesus, the Saviour of the world, prayer to, 649.
Christian, what we learn from the name of, 426.
epitaph of a, 657.

how to act when taken ill, 609.

Church, prayer for the whole, 508.

Collect, explanation of the, in the Mass, 388.
prayer at the, 388.

Colloquy on the right use of prayer, 1.

on the method and practice of honouring the saints, 93.
on the way to do penance, 149.

on the doctrine of a holy life, 210.

on the right practice of holy communion, 291.

on the way to meditate on the life and Passion of our Sa-
viour, 421.

on the way to die well, 530.

Communion, holy, colloquy on the right practice of, 291.

holy, encouragement to, 291.

obstacles to frequent, 296.

why not to be abstained from, 297.

preparation for, through the affection of love, 307.
exercise before, 333.

petition for grace before, 339.

prayer to the Holy Ghost before, 340.

prayer for acceptance of good will before, 341.
aspirations at the time of, 341.

exercise after, 344, 357.

petition after, 350.

thanksgiving after, 345.

oblation of the Son to the Father after, 347.

petition for virtues after, 355.

prayer for others after, 354.

recommended to God through the B. V. Mary, 355.

recommended to God through the saints, 355.

oblation of self before, 361.

united with oblation and merits of Christ, 361.

invocation of SS. and patrons before, 362.

intention directed before, 358.

faith exercised before, 359.

resolution renewed before, 360.

oblation of self and all before, 361.

merits of Christ represented to God the Father before,
362.

saints and patrons invoked before, 362.

short method of exciting the affections before and after,
365.

spiritual, explained, 399.