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M d d Prayer
devout acts and petitions; in other words, begin your
conversation with God on the subject about which you
have been thinking.
In order to help the. mind in this pious exercise we
must have some definite subject of thought upon which
it is well to read either a text of Holy Scripture or a
kw lines out of some other holy book, for instance:
"The Spiritual Exercises of St. Igllatius";
"The
Following of Christ" . "The Spiritual Combat " ;
Challoner's "Think well On't" ; St. Alphonsus
Liguori's "Devout Reflections," "The Way of Salva-
tion," "The Love of Christ," and "The Blessed Eucharist";
St; Frances of Sales' "Introduction to a
Devout Life," "Meditations for Retreats," and other
works; Bishop Hedley's "Retreat" ; Cochem's "Meditations
on the Four Last Things"; Baxter's "Meditations
for Every Day in the Year"; or any one of the
popular books of meditation used by Religious, such as
Hamon's, De Brandt's, Segneri's, Vercruysse's, and
Ilg's "Meditations on the Life and Passion of Our
Lord." Father Gallwey's "Watches of the Passion,"
and Da Bergamo's "Thoughts and Affections on the
Passion" are worthy of the highest commendation.
St. Alphonsus says: "It is good to meditate upon
the last things - death, judgment, eternity - but let
us above all meditate upon the passion of Christ."
This saint, the great Doch of Prayer, has given us a
beautiful work on "The Passion."
St. Teresa tells us that in her meditations she helped
herself with a book for seventeen years. By reading
the points of a meditation fmm a book, the mind is
rendered attentive and is set on a train of thought.
Further to help the mind you can ask yourself some
such questions as the following: What does this mean?
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