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A PREFACE ON THE FOUNDATION AND TRUE NATURE OF THE VIRTUE OF ABANDONMENT , TO EXPLAIN AND DEFEND Father Caussade’s Doctrine .

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Book First. The Nature and Excellence of the Virtue of Holy Abandonment.

CHAPTER I. The Sanctity of the Righteous of the Old Law, and of Joseph and of Mary herself, consisted in Fidelity to the Order of God.

CHAPTER II. The Duties of each Moment are the Shadows which veil the Divine Action.

CHAPTER III. How much Easier Sanctity becomes when studied from this Point of View.

CHAPTER IV. Perfection does not consist in knowing the Order of God, but in submitting to it.

CHAPTER V. Reading and other Exercises only sanctify us in so far as they are the Channels of the Divine Action.

CHAPTER VI. The Mind and other Human Means are Useful only in as far as they are the Instruments of the Divine Action.

CHAPTER VII. There is no Enduring Peace but in Submission to the Divine Action.

CHAPTER VIII. The Perfection of Souls and the Excellence of Different States are in Proportion to their Conformity to the Order of God.

CHAPTER IX. All the Riches of Grace are the Fruit of Purity of Heart and Perfect Self-abandonment.

Book Second. The Divine Action and the Manner in which it unceasingly works the Sanctification of Souls.

CHAPTER I. The Divine Action is everywhere and always Present, though only Visible to the Eye of Faith.

CHAPTER II. The Divine Action is all the more Visible to the Eye of Faith when hidden under Appearances most Repugnant to the Senses.

CHAPTER III. The Divine Action offers us at each Moment Infinite Blessings, which we receive in proportion to our Faith and Love.

CHAPTER IV. God reveals Himself to us as Mysteriously, as Adorably, and with as much Reality in the most Ordinary Events as in the great Events of History and the Holy Scriptures.

CHAPTER V. The Divine Action continues in our Hearts the Revelation begun in Holy Scripture; but the Characters in which it is written will be Visible only at the Last Day.

CHAPTER VI. Divine Love is communicated to us through the Veil of Creatures, as Jesus communicates Himself to us through the Veil of the Eucharistic Species.

CHAPTER VII. The Divine Action, the Will of God, is as unworthily treated and disregarded in its Daily Manifestation by many Christians as was Jesus in the Flesh by the Jews.

CHAPTER VIII. The Revelation of the Present Moment is the more Profitable that it is addressed Directly to us.

CHAPTER IX. The Revelation of the Present Moment is an Inexhaustible Source of Sanctity.

CHAPTER X. The Present Moment is the Manifestation of the Name of God and the Coming of His Kingdom.

CHAPTER XI. The Divine Will imparts the Highest Sanctity to Souls; they have but to abandon Themselves to its Divine Action.

CHAPTER XII. The Divine Action alone can sanctify us, for it forms us after the Divine Model of our Perfection.

Book Third. The Paternal Care with which God surrounds Souls wholly abandoned to Him.

CHAPTER I. God Himself guides Souls who wholly abandon themselves to Him.

CHAPTER II. The more God seems to withdraw Light from the Soul abandoned to His Direction, the more Safely He guides Her.

CHAPTER III. The Afflictions with which God visits the Soul are but Loving Artifices at which she will One Day rejoice.

CHAPTER IV. The more God seems to take from a Soul wholly abandoned to Him, the more Generous He is to her.

CHAPTER V. The less Capable the Faithful Soul is of defending Herself, the more Powerfully does God defend Her.

CHAPTER VI. The Soul abandoned to the Will of God, so far from resisting her Enemies, finds in them Useful Auxiliaries.

CHAPTER VII. The Soul who abandons Herself to God has no Need to justify Herself by Words or Actions: the Divine Action justifies Her.

CHAPTER VIII. God gives Life to the Soul abandoned to Him by Means which apparently lead only to Death.

CHAPTER IX. Love holds the Place of All Things to Souls who walk in the Way of Abandonment.

CHAPTER X. The Faithful Soul finds in Submission to the Will of God more Force and Strength than the Proudest of those who resist Him.

CHAPTER XI. The Soul abandoned to God learns to recognize His Will even in the Proud who resist Him. All Creatures, whether Good or Evil, reveal Him to her.

CHAPTER XII. God assures to Faithful Souls a Glorious Victory over the Powers of Earth and Hell.

APPENDIX.

I. A very easy Means of acquiring Peace of Heart.

II. On Perfect Abandonment.

III. A Short and Easy Method of making the Prayer of Faith, and of the Simple Presence of God.

IV. Exercise of Loving Union of our Will with that of God.

V. Act of Abandonment.

Another Act of Abandonment.

Another Act of Abandonment.