Part 54

Consecration, the Prayer of the, 147, 149, 150

Contemplation and the Contemplative Life: the meaning of contemplation, 188, 189, 196, 201, 202, 211, 230, 234, 235, 237; it is something beautiful in the soul, 184; not purely an affair of the intellect, 179-182, 189; its relation to the affective powers, 211; the place which reason occupies in contemplation, 195, 210, 211, 225, 226, 249; the place occupied by the imagination, 195; in what sense contemplation involves many acts, 187-192; how far contemplation may be described according to the three species of motion--circular, direct, and oblique, 172, 203-210; contemplation is natural to man, 210; it is pleasurable, 211; it is primarily concerned with God, 180, 241, 250; it does not, in this present life, fall on the Divine Essence as such, 199-203; its ultimate goal, 180, 184, 187, 193, 194, 196, 198, 203, 229; its ultimate goal in this life, 212, 220; how it is distinguished from meditation and thought, 188; and from speculation, 189; four integral parts of contemplation, 193, 194; four phases in it, 194; six steps in it, 195, 196; the contemplation of this present life, 193, 213, 214; not on earth as in Heaven, 176, 177, 217, 243; it is "beyond man," 218; a busy life does not exclude it, 238; it is lawful to desire it, 240; contemplation and ecstasy, 200; four subjects of contemplation, 194; the repose of contemplation, in what it consists, 204, 205, 234, 235, 246

The Contemplative Life: its meaning, 184, 186, 237, 250; how it is distinguished from the Active Life, 169, 173, 220, 234, 235; it is superior to the Active Life, 233-240; it is more meritorious than it, 240-244; its great merit, 242; it is prepared for in the Active Life, 239, 245-249; the Active Life precedes it, 249-252; the Contemplative Life directs the Active, 251; the relation of the Contemplative Life to the Theological virtues, 192; and to the Moral virtues, 182-186, 221, 222, 239; it demands temperance, 184, 185; and chastity, which it in turn fosters, 184, 185; it calls for the subjection of the passions, 184, 185; it results in the subjugation of the passions, 213; it involves a certain liberty of spirit, 234, 237; it is often distasteful, 215, 216; it means the sacrifice of our own soul, 244; its joys, 177, 197, 210-216, 234, 248; its combats, 212, 213; it is imperfect here on earth, 243; it is not incompatible with Prelacy, 236; its relation to the office of teaching, 236-239; it is not meant for all, 235, 236, 239, 241, 251, 252; reading is sometimes necessary for it, 190; how far it refrains from all external actions, 182; it is typified by Rachel, 174, 180, 184, 234, 242; also by Mary of Bethany, 174, 190, 197, 234, 235, 248; it is foreshown in Jacob's Vision, 231

Contemplative Religious Orders: in what sense they are the best, 253-257

Contemplatives, 32

Continence, a prayer for, 87

Conversation, sins of, 110

Correction, fraternal, 97

Created things must serve as stepping-stones, 193

Cross, Adoration of the, 37

Cultus, 31

Cyprian, St., on Our Father, not My Father, 96

Damascene, St. John: on Wonderment, 189; definitions of prayer, 69, 71, 85, 142, 148

Dead, Prayers for the, 167, 168

Death, fear of, 83

Decii, the, 52

Defects, the thought of our, causes devotion, 63, 64

Delights, earthly, as opposed to heavenly, 215, 216

Denis the Areopagite, 24; on sanctity, 49; on ecstasy, 55; on beginning all with prayer, 70; on being co-workers with God, 154; of the knowledge of the Angels, 157; of the harmony in Divine things, 158; that life implies motion, 171; on the three movements of the soul, 172, 203-210; of the difference between the Angelic and the human intellect, 186; that the goal of contemplation is to attain to the uniformity of the Divine contemplation, 218; that in contemplation here on earth we do not see the Divine Essence, 200; on the illumination of the Angels, 230; of the Divine harmony, 255

Desires, their function and necessity, 77, 91, 105

Devotion: defined, 51, 53, 55, 57, 64; is a special act, 51; is due to an act of the will, 53, 57; is an act of the virtue of Religion, 57; is the principal act of the virtue of Religion, 54; involves sacrifice of the heart, 64; it gives a certain measure to human acts, 52; it means promptitude, 53, 55, 56, 57; two causes of it, 57, 62, 63; caused by meditation, 57; especially by meditation on the Sacred Passion, 59, 63; on the goodness of God, 58, 60; on our own defects, 58, 60; obstacles to it, 62; how far it may be hindered by learning, 60; it is productive of sorrow, 62-64; but is not therefore to be confounded with gloominess, 64, 65; it produces joy, 62, 63; devotion to the Saints, 57; the devotion of women, 59, 62; the "devout female sex," 62

Direct movement of the soul, the, 172, 210-213

Discretion, St. Antony on, 254, 257

Distractions, 127. Cf. s.v. Prayer, distractions in

Divine Office, attention in the recitation of, 128

Dulia, 39

Ecstasy, 4; Denis the Areopagite on, 55; that of St. Paul, 199, 200

Ejaculatory prayers, 134, 135