The Practice of Mental Prayer. Father Rene de Maumigny

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СКАЧАТЬ CHAPTER 13 1. Excellence of Prayer…………………………………… II. First and Second Advantage of Prayer! It En- sures our Salvation and Enriches us with Numer- ous 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………………………………. 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

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IV.	Third Preliminary Act: Petition to the Holy Ghost for Grace……………………………….......	52
V.	Exercise of the Imagination and of the Sensi- tive 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 Understanding………........................
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IX.	The Act of Hope…………………..................................	71
X.	Charity or Pure Love of God Consists in De- siring Every Kind of Good Thing for God, because He is Infinitely Worthy of it on Account of His Infinite Perfections……..............
		78
XI.	A Soul in which there is the Pure Love of Charity strives furthermore towards Union with God, so as to no longer Live for Itself but for God…………………………………………
		83
XII.	Charity is a Love not only out of Benevolence, but also of Friendship between God and the Just Man………………………………………..
		89
XIII.	Charity Requires that we Love God above all Things……………………………………….…
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XIV.	How the Two Kinds of Love—Affective and Effective—should be Exercised during Prayer……………………………………..……….
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XV.	We must Consider God as our Supreme Bene- factor in order to Gain a Love of Him……….…
		102
XVI.	To Obtain the Love of God we must Regard Him as the Creator and Sovereign Lord of all Things…………………….………………..
		110
XVII.	To Obtain the Love of God we must Look upon God as our Best Friend…………………….
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XVIII.	To Gain the Love of God we must Consider Him as the Best of Fathers	121
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