Contemplations And Meditations On The Passion And Death, And On The Glorious Life Of Our Lord Jesus Christ, According To The Method Of St. Ignatius

THE rapid selc of the four first editions of this little work has shown that its value has been appreciated. The Translator has added to it the Ieditat8ions on The Glorious Life of Our Lorci, which, without in weaning the expense of the book, will be found to add t onsiclerably to its worth. The whole has been ewefully revised, and eve1. y suggestion that has been kindly offered as an improvement has been adopted. The Translator takes this opllortunitg of thanking the many kind friends who have taken an interest in the work, anti so charitably aidad in propagating its s ile. Shc earnestly begs for a c nt inuanocfe the same kind efiorts in farour of the New Edition. Copies can be had on application to the Sisters of Nercy, Co entrya, s tvelI as ol the Publishers. THE French work, Viditatiom s e l m Ia Zldfhode de St. Ig. m e, sut h Vk et s1l. r 14s Jlysthres de N.-S. Christ, hw beeu for several years in use in this country, as well as in France and hss been found of great value by thoue who have taken it for their guide. Althorigl the moet eerious obstacles to success in mental prdycr are arl un nortificd life, want of recollection of the Divilie Prcscnce, and neglect to prepaye overnight for the inlportant work wlt, h which the next day is to begin, there is no doribt that the want of a good mxnual interposes great additional diificul ties, A book mo. y contain abtin lnnce of admirable matter, and be uuefnl for instruction or spiritual seatl ling, and yet be almost a hindrance, instead of n help, to meditation. A good 1nethod faithfrilly followetl divisions not arbitrarily made, but sugge epting trains of thought, really distinct, and yet not diverging, hut harmonious y ubordinat etdoone leading idea the exclusion of all irrelevant, dpeculative, and s perfluoulnsa tter brevity and sin plicityo f expreasior, and the unction which can hardly be found except when the IIcditationa have been first made devoutly in the same form by the proposer of them-these eeern the most essential coilditions for such a work and experience, the b a t test of such things, has found them uuited in the Manual, the fourth volutne of which on our Lords sufferi lgs i, s now, for the first time, accessible in English. The Translator, who is herself familiar with these Meclitations. by long me, has ailliecl at as faithful n reproduction of t, he original as the English idiorn permits. She places the little work under the patronage of the great Sainl whose method is faithfully followed, mid something of whose spirit has Gcen caught, i r th ese Meditations at il r epeats the prayer of the who use them to r ou isli their pietmy, nd o pen their 11eart as fresh to the knowlerlge attd love uf Jesus Christ, my so imitate Him iu their lives as to secure rtertlal hnppiness. As some Inay prefer asirnpler form of lhe prayer Anima Cl rist t i h an illat given on g q e 5, the prayer is giveu llcrc in Latin and English -drli naC hriati, aanctifiar be. Soul of Chrlut, anctifym o. Corpu C h isti, s alva rile. Hody of Christ, save ne. S ngnis Christi, inebria na. Blood of Christ, incbriule me. Aqcl la tcris Chrlstl, I v am e. Vater from the side c f C llri t, , w aah me. Pnlisit Chriati, conforh me. Pnasion of Chriat, utrcngthen me...