The doctrine of the Gospel on the necessity of mortification is explained at considerable length by St. Paul in his epistles. Frequent quotation is made of his words: “I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway” (I Cor. 9:27). Likewise…
To see the true spirit of Christian mortification, we must consider what our Lord says about it in the Gospel and how the saints understood it and lived it. The Savior did not come upon earth to carry out a human work of philanthropy, but a divine work of charity. He accomplished it by speaking…
From The Three Ages of the Interior Life Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. — The Question of the One Thing Necessary at the Present Time What we have just said is true at all times; but the question of the interior life is being more sharply raised today than in several periods less troubled than ours.…
From The Three Ages of the Interior Life Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. — It is all the more important to recall the necessity and the true nature of the interior life, because the true conception of it, as given to us in the Gospel, in the Epistles of St. Paul and in the whole of…
From The Three Ages of the Interior Life By Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. — As everyone can easily understand, the interior life is an elevated form of intimate conversation which everyone has with himself as soon as he is alone, even in the tumult of a great city. From the moment he ceases to converse with…
From The Three Ages of the Interior Life By Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. — Let us now examine more closely the full development of our eternal life in heaven, in order that we may better appreciate the value of that sanctifying grace which is its beginning. In particular let us compare it with what would…
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