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PREFACE

Part V is confined to the study of the methods of prayer given in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. I am thus com- plying with the request of the religious who have asked me to undertake this work on prayer and who are much attached to St. Ignatius's excellent book.

And finally, throughout, I have tried to emphasize the supreme importance of solid virtue. I had even thought of devoting a series of chapters to it, but in the end I thought it preferable to reserve them for the treatise on extraordinary prayer, where illu- sions are more frequent and more dangerous.

I dedicate this humble work to Our Lady, Mother of all grace but especially of the gift of prayer which she imparted to the Holy Apostles in a marvellous way, by pray- ing with them in the Cenacle (Acts 1:14). By her intercession, may the readers of these pages gain a more perfect detachment from things transitory, a greater desire for what is eternal, and above all else such a burning love of God that they may no longer live but for His glory and the salvation of souls.