Part 52

INDEX

Abiding in Christ, 32

Abraham in Limbo, 155

Accidents of the Holy Eucharist, 9

Active Life, the: its meaning, 170, 174, 176, 221, 229; typified in Jacob's Vision, 231; typified by Lia, 174, 222, 225, 234, 242, 246; two features of the Active Life, 221, 241, 247; in what sense it is distinct from the Contemplative Life, 220; how less meritorious than the Contemplative Life, 240-244; not preferable to the Contemplative Life, 233-240; it involves less sacrifice than the Contemplative Life, 244; in what sense it precedes the Contemplative Life, 223, 237, 245, 249-252; how far it is necessary, 186, 221, 239, 245, 250; contrasted with the Contemplative Life, 172, 173; how far it is more stable than the Contemplative Life, 232; its dangers, 136, 147, 186; it is a burden super-imposed upon the Contemplative Life, 238; all are not meant for it, 186, 251, 252; it will not persist after this life, 229-232; the Active Life of the Angels, 231; how far the Active Life is inferior to the Contemplative, 233-240; occasions when it must be embraced, 186, 235, 239; the part which the Moral Virtues play in it, 191, 220-223; it is a preparation for the Contemplative Life, 176, 177, 220, 237, 245; prudence is requisite for it, 186, 223-226; how far the teaching life pertains to the Active Life, 226-229, 230; it will pass away, 177, 191, 229-232; it is the Purgative way, 220; Prelates and the Active Life, 236

Active Religious Orders, they are inferior to the Contemplative, 253-257

Adjure God, in what sense we are said to do so in our prayers, 148

Adoration of the Cross, 37

Adoro Te Devote, the rhythm of St. Thomas in honour of the Holy Eucharist, 112

Albert of Brescia, O.P., 18

Albert the Great, Blessed, 6

Alypius, St. Augustine's friend, 123

Ambrose, St.: on God as the cause of devotion, 57; that the beauty of the soul depends on the Moral Virtues, 184

Andronicus on the meaning of sanctity, 49

Angels, the: how they are differentiated from men, 113, 114, 187, 206; the knowledge of the Angels, 157, 187, 205, 208, 230; the Beatific Vision of the Angels, 231; the intelligence of the Angels, 187, 230; the intercession of the Angels, 165; their conformity to the will of God, 165, 167; the Angelic Hierarchies, 201, 230; the teaching of the Angels 230, 231; the Active Life of the Angels, 231; we shall be like to the Angels, how, 230, 231; Angels gird St. Thomas, 6

Anselm of Laudun, 25

Antony, St.: a patron against Hell-fire, 160; on discretion, 154, 157

Areopagite. Cf. s.v. Denis the Areopagite

Aristotle: on the aptitude for virtue, 35; on honour, 39; that the perfection of the moral virtues lies in their mean, 43; on Justice, 55, 221; that "reason asks for the best things," 69; on the need of temporal things, 89; that "each man's life is that which he would wish to share with his friend," 170; that "to live is to be," 170; on action and contemplation as distinctions in the intellectual life, 171; that life is primarily in the vegetative soul, 171; on three kinds of lives, 175; that knowledge has little to do with the moral virtues, 182, 221; that every act of the intellect may be termed "consideration," 188; that the ultimate happiness of man consists in the contemplation of the highest truth, 193; of man's dependence on the imagination, 201; that motion is the act of a perfect thing, 203; on local motion as the chief of bodily motions, 204; that delight follows upon a perfect work, 213; on the nobility of science, 214; that there is no pleasure contrary to that derived from thought, 217; on application to the Contemplative Life, 217; that the Contemplative Life is "beyond man," 218; that prudence pertains to active happiness, 223; that he who commits adultery to steal is more a thief than an adulterer, 223; that prudence is the right mode of procedure in our actions, 224; that the ends of the moral virtues are the principles of prudence, 224; that the proof of the possession of wisdom is the power to teach, 228; eight proofs that the Contemplative Life is superior to the Active, 234, 235; on the better lot, 236; that habits produce perfect acts, 251

Arius, his error regarding the Person of Christ, 161

Athanasius, St., on the chanting of the Psalms, 123

Attention: mental, 225; in prayer, 125-133; three kinds of, 128, 129, 133

Attitudes in prayer, 150, 151

Augustine, St.: St. Thomas's kinship with him in doctrine, 17-19; they are seen in a vision together, 18; the Breviary Hymn to, 26; definition of religion, 28, 29, 30; on Latvia, 30; on Eusebeia, 31; on abiding in Christ, 32; on the desire of God, 32; on prayer for wealth, 33; on sacrifice, 32, 46; of true worship, 40; of idolatry, 46; on the value of external acts in prayer, 46; of virginity, 50; on "God alone," 54, 92, 108, 142, 197, 189, 203, 219; on the will and the understanding, 57; on true grief, 65; prayer defined, 69; why we should pray, 75; on the prayers of the Church, 76; when we pray we are God's beggars, 79, 110; of those who say "He knows already; why then pray?" 80; of the knowledge the dead have of our affairs, 82; on shrinking from death, 83; on avoidance of Hell, 86; of the Beatific Vision, 87, 229; a prayer for continence, 87; and for the knowledge of Holy Scripture, 88; it is lawful to pray for what it is lawful to desire, 89; on prayer for "sufficiency of life," 89; on "seeking first the Kingdom of God," 90; on prayer "without ceasing," 91; of the prayer of desire, 92, 134; his prayer for deliverance from toothache, 92; why temporal favours are sometimes not granted, 94, 95; on prayer for others, 96; that we cannot here distinguish between the predestinate and the reprobate, 97; on the imprecations in Holy Scripture, 100, 101; on prayer for the wicked, 101; on the Lord's Prayer, that it is the most perfect form of prayer, 102; on "our Daily Bread," 103, 109; "hallowed be Thy Name," 104; "Thy kingdom come," 105; "Thy will be done," 105; "forgive us our trespasses," 110, 111; of the Lord's Prayer and the gifts of the Holy Spirit, 106; of the two versions of the Lord's Prayer in St. Matthew and St. Luke, 107; on true righteousness, 111; on exterior religion, 119; on the chanting of the Psalter, 123; on the prayer of the heart, 124; on distractions, 129-131; on prayer at definite times, 134; on the brief prayers of the hermits of old, 134; on "much speaking" in prayer, 135; that God urges us to pray, 138, 139; that prayer is a gift of God, 139; on unheard prayers, 140, 142; on prayers heard in anger, 142, 143; in what sense the prayers of sinners are heard, 143, 144; on the attitudes to be adopted in and of the time and place for prayer, 127, 150, 151; of the knowledge of the Saints in Limbo, 154-156; why the prayers of the Saints are heard, 167; the Contemplative contrasted with the Active Life, 172-174, 186; the three "lives," 175, 185; the "mixed" life, 226; of the final possession and vision of God, 176, 177, 191, 203; on the use of leisure, 186; the claims of the two lives, the Active and the Contemplative, 186, 248; of the Active Life, 236; of the Active Life as opposed to the Contemplative, 238; that every operation of the intellect may be termed "thought," 188; of the derivation of the term "speculation," 189; of our present perfection, 190, 191; on the pleasures of sense, 185; that the contemplation of God is the goal of all our acts, 193; that we must use created things as stepping-stones to the things that abide for ever, 193; on Mary's "better part," 196, 197; on Martha and Mary, 234, 235, 248; that in contemplation we do not see God Himself, 199; the greater the danger in the battle, the greater the joy in the triumph, 212; on the transitory nature of our present contemplation, 218; on the beauty of the teaching life, 227; how the moral virtues remain after death, 230; of the repose of Contemplation, 230, 241; of his desire for solitude, yet he feels that he must work for others, 239; he dare hope for the Contemplative Life, 240; of the higher reason, 249

Basil, St.: on distractions, 127, 128; on unheard prayers, 141

Beatific Vision, the, 87, 153, 172, 176, 177, 180, 181, 193, 198-203, 217

Beatitude, in what it consists, 172, 176, 177, 181, 191, 198, 218, 219, 229

Beatitude, a prayer for, 192