The Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues Part One A los religiosos de la Compañía de Jesús On the esteem, desire and affection we ought to have for what concerns our spiritual progress 18 chapters On the perfection of our ordinary actions 9 chapters That Our Advancement and Perfection Consists in Doing Ordinary Actions Extraordinarily Well That It Ought Greatly to Animate Us to Perfection, That God Has Put It in Something That Is Very Easy In What the Goodness and Perfection of Our Actions Consists, and of Some Means to Do Them Well Of Another Means to Do Our Actions Well, Which Is to Do Them as if We Had Nothing Else to Do Of Another Means, Which Is to Do Every Action as if It Were to Be the Last of Our Life Of Another Means of Doing Our Actions Well, Which Is to Take No Account of Anything beyond Today Of Another Means to Do Our Actions Well, Which Is to Get into a Way of So Doing Them Of How Great Importance It Is for a Religious Not to Slow Down in the Way of Virtue How Important It Is for Novices to Make Progress during the Time of Their Novitiate, and Accustom Themselves to Do the Exercises of Religion Well On rectitude and purity of intention in our actions 14 chapters On union and fraternal charity 20 chapters On prayer 28 chapters On the presence of God 5 chapters Of the Excellence of This Exercise and the Great Benefits That It Contains In What This Practice of Walking Always in the Presence vf God Consists Of the Acts of the Will, in Which This Exercise Chiefly Consists, and How We Are to Practise Them Further Explanation of This Exercise, and a Method of Walking in the Presence of God Very Easy and Profitable and Leading to Great Perfection Of Some Differences and Advantages Which This Particular Exercise of Walking Always in the Presence of God Has over Others On the examination of conscience 11 chapters The Importance of Examination of Conscience On What Subjects the Particular Examen Should Be Made Of Two Important Pieces of Advice How to Hit Upon and Choose the Right Subject for Particular Examen That the Particular Examen Must Be Made on One Thing Only How to Divide the Particular Examen According to the Parts and Degrees of Virtues That the Matter of the Particular Examen Should Not Be Lightly Changed, and for What Length of Time It Is Well to Keep It on the Same Subject How the Particular Examen Is To Be Made That in the Examen We Should Insist and Dwell Principally on Sorrow and Purpose of Amendment That It Is a Very Helpful Thing to Add Some Penances to the Examen Of the General Examination of Conscience That the Examen of Conscience Is a Means of Putting into Execution All Other Spiritual Methods and Directions, and the Reason Why We Do Not Profit by It Is That We Do Not Make It As We Ought On conformity with the will of God 34 chapters
