Salesian Literature

Chapter 1  :  Of the love of conformity proceeding from sacred complacency

Chapter 2  :  Of the conformity of submission which proceeds from the love of benevolence

Chapter 3  :  How we are to conform ourselves to that divine will, which is called the signified will

Chapter 4  :  Of the conformity of our will to the will which God has to save us

Chapter 5  :  Of the conformity of our will to that will of God’s which is signified to us by his commandments

Chapter 6  :  Of the conformity of our will to that will of God which is signified unto us by his counsels

Chapter 7  :  That the love of God’s will signified in the commandments moves us to the love of the counsels

Chapter 8  :  That the contempt of the evangelical counsels is a great sin

Chapter 9  :  A continuation of the preceding discourse.  How everyone, while bound to love, is not bound to practise, all the evangelical counsels, and yet how everyone should practise what he is able

Chapter 10  :  How we are to conform ourselves to God’s will signified unto us by inspirations, and first, of the variety of the means by which God inspires us

Chapter 11  :  Of the union of our will with God’s in the inspirations which are given for the extraordinary practice of virtues; and of perseverance in one’s vocation, the first mark of inspiration

Chapter 12  :  Of the union of man’s will with God’s in those inspirations which are contrary to ordinary laws; and of peace and tranquillity of heart, second mark of inspiration

Chapter 13  :  Third mark of inspiration, which is holy obedience to the Church and superiors

Chapter 14  :  A short method to know God’s will

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