The Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues Part Two Al lector On mortification 23 chapters On modesty and silence 14 chapters On the virtue of humility 40 chapters On temptations 22 chapters On inordinate affection for relatives 7 chapters How Important It Is for a Religious to Avoid Visits to Relations and Journeys to His Own Native Place That a Religious Should Also Avoid, as Far as Possible, Being Visited by His Relations and Any Communication with Them by Letter That Even though It Be under Plea of Preaching, a Religious Should Shun Intercourse with His Relations and Visits to His Native Place That a Religious Should Stand Particularly on His Guard against Occupying Himself with the Business Affairs of His Relations What Has Been Said Is Confirmed by Some Examples Of Other Evils and Losses Caused by Affection for Kindred, and How Christ Our Redeemer Taught Us to Keep Out of Their Way How This Temptation Is Apt to Disguise Itself Not Only under the Appearance of Piety, but of That of Duty, and the Remedy to Be Applied Thereunto On sadness and joy 7 chapters Of the Great Mischiefs That Follow from Sadness In Which Are Given Sundry Reasons Why It Befits Us to Serve God Cheerfully That the Ordinary Faults into Which We Fall Should Not Be Enough to Make Us Abandon This Cheerfulness Of the Roots and Causes of Sadness, and Its Remedies That Recourse to Prayer Is a Grand Means for Getting Rid of Sadness Of Another Very Ordinary Root of Sadness, Which Is the Not Going on As We Should Do in the Service of God; and of the Great Cheerfulness That Comes of a Good Conscience That There Is Such a Thing as Good and Holy Sadness On the treasure and goods we have in Christ, and the way to meditate on the mysteries of His Passion 9 chapters Of the Treasures and Great Blessings That We Have in Christ How Profitable and Pleasing to God Is Meditation on the Passion of Christ. Our Redeemer Of the Method to Be Followed in Meditating the Passion of Christ Our Redeemer, and of the Sentiment of Compassion Which We Should Draw from Thence Of the Sentiment of Sorrow and Contrition for Our Sins, Which We Should Gather from the Meditation on the Passion of Christ Our Lord Of the Sentiment of Love of God Of the Sentiment of Gratitude and Thanksgiving Of the Sentiments of Admiration and Hope Of the Imitation of Christ as the Fruit Which We Should Gather from Meditation on His Mysteries In Which Is Established by Sundry Examples How Profitable and Agreeable to God Is Meditation on the Passion of Christ Our Redeemer On holy Communion and the holy sacrifice of the Mass 16 chapters
