A Golden Treatise of Mental Prayer
St. Peter of Alcántara's handbook of mental prayer (c. 1556): seven meditations for the days of the week, seven on the Passion, the six parts of prayer, eight counsels, and a second part on devotion, its aids, hindrances and temptations. The meditations of Part I draw on Luis de Granada's Libro de la oración y meditación. English: G. S. Hollings's edition (1905), which differs from the Spanish in places (it abridges some meditations and lacks the dedicatory prologue).
Contents
Source: Complete Spanish text: prologue, Part I (12 chapters, with the 14 daily meditations) and Part II (5 chapters). Page furniture removed, chapters split. · English chapters follow the Spanish ids. The appendices (Short Introduction, Three Things) are not included here. Hollings's scripture-reference footnotes are not kept (their markers are lost in the OCR). · Used only to compare readings.