The Garden of the Soul

Bishop Challoner's manual of spiritual exercises and instructions for Christians who, living in the world, aspire to devotion (1740): the summary of Christian doctrine, morning and evening exercises, the method of meditation with St. Francis de Sales's ten meditations, the Mass, Vespers and Benediction, the ordinary actions of the day, remedies against sin, confession, communion, the sick and the dead. The text is the 1916 reprint of the 1741 impression of the first edition, before a century and a half of editions rewrote it; the feast and fasting tables, Vespers and Complin and a few sentences were brought up to date in 1916.