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 …
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Mortification According to the Gospel
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 …
Garrigou-Lagrange: The Religion of Science and Our Times
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 …
Garrigou-Lagrange against Lutheran Errors
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 …
Garrigou-Lagrange: The One Thing Necessary
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 …
On the Supernatural Destiny of the Baptized
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 …