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Habits, 35, 251
Harmony of Divine things, 158, 159
Harmony of reason, the, 183
Heaven: there will be no books in, 111;
it is our "Fatherland," 166-168, 173
Holiness, 184
Hope, 191, 192
Hugo à St. Caro, 6, 25
Hugh of St. Victor's: on attention at prayer, 126;
on intensity, 126
Idolatry, 46
Images, veneration of, 37
Imagination, its function, 195, 201
Imprecations in Holy Scripture, 100
Indulgences, 168
Ingratitude, 94
"Insinuation" in prayer, 141[Pg 265]
Intelligence, quickness of, 224
Intellect, the noblest part of man, 79, 80
Intention, 133
"Intercession" as a part of prayer, 146
Intercession of the Saints, 161
Interior Spirit, the true, 247
Interpretive prayer, 163
Isaias, St. Thomas's Commentary on, 10
Isidore of Seville, St.: his etymologies, 24;
on religion, 27;
on the word sanctus, 48;
on prayer, 68
Jacob's Vision, 231
Jeremias prays for the people, though he is in Limbo, 115, 118, 162
Jerome, St.: on the error of Vigilantius, who said the prayers of the Martyrs were not heard, 115, 162;
on making "a virtue of necessity," 35;
on the term "super-substantial" Bread, 103
John of St. Julian, O.P., 5
John XXII., Pope, 23
Josias, King of Juda, in Limbo, 155
Joy as an effect of devotion, 62
Joys of Contemplation, the, 210-216
Justice, the chief of the Moral Virtues, 37, 55, 221
Knowledge, its relation to the Moral Virtues, 182
Latria, 30, 34, 44
Leo the Great, St., on the Jews, 56
Lia, the type of the Active Life, 222, 225, 234, 242, 246
Liberty of Spirit, 237
Life: definitions of, 169, 170, 171, 187;
considered as intellectual, life may be divided into the Active and the Contemplative, 171, 174;
cf. s.v. Contemplative Life and Active Life;
the Active and Contemplative Life compared, 233-257;
the two Lives distinguished, 169-177;
their relative order, 249-252;
the "mixed" life, 175, 185;
the Life of Beatitude, 191;
the bestial life, 175;
the busy life, 175;
the civil life, 175;
the leisurely life, 175, 185;
the pleasurable life, 175;
the life of repose, 172, 173;
the life of toil, 172, 173;
the voluptuous life, 176
Limbo, 118, 154-156
Litany of the Saints, 158
Living for Eternity, on, 83
Livy on the Decii, 51
Lombard, Peter, 25
Lord's Prayer, the: the seven petitions of, 105-111;
the most perfect form of prayer, 105;
distractions in saying it, 132;
why we say Our Father, and not My Father, 96;
this prayer is recited in the name of the whole Church, 145;
in what sense we are tied to this restricted form of prayer, 136, 137;
the Lord's Prayer as a subject of meditation, 192
Lyons, the Council of, St. Thomas summoned to it, 14
Lyra, Nicolas de, his Gloss, 25
Martyrs: the prayers of the, 162-164;
merits of the Martyrs, 256
Marvel, what it is to, 189
Mass, the: to be said distinctly, 122;
the Prayers of, 147;
the Prayer of the Consecration in the Mass, 149, 150
Maximus Valerius, On Socrates, 84
Meditation, 188, 190;
causes devotion, 57;
produces sadness as well as joy, 62-65;
the need of it, 61;
not to be neglected for vocal prayer, 123;
fruitful subjects for, 60;
meditation on the Sacred Passion, 59;
on choosing subtle subjects for meditation, 58, 60, 61[Pg 266]
Melancholy, no fruit of devotion, 64, 65
Merit:
definition of, 166;
source of, 240;
merits and rewards, 242;
none in Heaven, 166, 243;
of the Active and Contemplative Life, 240-244;
the merit of prayer, 141;
those of the Saints, 163;
how we can merit for others, 141
Military Religious Orders, 256
Monica, St., 123
Monte Cassino, 4
Moral Acts, their nature, 225
Moral Virtues, the:
Justice is the chief of the moral virtues, 221;
requisites for the moral virtues, 41;
their place in the Contemplative Life 182-186;
their function, 41, 43, 183-185;
their part in the Active Life, 220-226;
how far they remain after death, 230
Movements of the soul, the three, 172, 203-210
Mysticism, 1-3
