The Practice of Perfection and Christian VirtuesPart Two On mortification That We Must Join Mortification to Prayer, and That These Two Things Must Help One Another In What Mortification Consists, and the Need in Which We Stand of It That One of the Greatest Chastisements of God Is to Give a Man Over to His Appetites and Desires, Abandoning Him So That He Goes After Them Of Holy Hatred of Oneself, and the Spirit of Mortification and Penance That Is Born of It That All Our Spiritual Advancement and Perfection Consists in Mortification That Mortification Is Especially Necessary for Religious, Particularly for Such as Have to Do with Their Neighbor Of Two Sorts of Mortification and Penance, and How the Society Embraces and Practises Both That Mortification Is Not a Hatred, but a True Love, Not of Our Soul Alone, but Even of Our Very Body That He Who Makes No Effort to Mortify Himself Does Not Only Not Live the Life of a Spiritual, but Not Even of a Rational, Being That There Is Greater Trouble in Not Practising Mortification Than in Practising It Here We Begin to Treat of That Practice of Mortification How the Exercise of Mortification Ought to Be Put in Practice ieee ON being the principal means available on How We Should Mortify Ourselves in Lawful Things, and in Necessary Things, Too That We Should Chiefly Mortify Ourselves in That Vice or Passion Which Has the Greater Sway Over Us and Makes Us Fall into Our Greatest Faults That We Ought Not to Omit Mortifications in Small Things, and How Profitable and Pleasing to God These Mortifications Are Of the Harm and Mischief That Comes of Neglecting Mortification in Small Things Three Important Admonitions Upon This Subject That It Is Always Necessary to Exercise Ourselves in Mortification, How Good and Advanced Soever We May Be in Virtue Of Two Means That Will Make the Practice of Mortification Easy and Sweet, Which Are the Grace of God and His Holy Love Of Another Motive That Will Facilitate and Make Agreeable the Practice of Mortification, Namely, the Hope of Reward What Has Been Said in the Preceding Chapter Is Confirmed by Some Examples Of Another Motive That Will Help Us, and Render the Practice of Mortification Easy, Which Is the Example of Christ Our Redeemer Of Three Degrees of Mortification
