MABILLON, 144.
MARGARET MARY (St), 56,
196.

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MARTIN (Dom Claud), 144.
MARTYRIUS, monk, 408.
MARY, Mother of God. See Vir-
gin Mary.

MARY MAGDALEN OF PAZZI
(St), 300.

Mass, (Holy Sacrifice of the Mass),
celebrated by the Abbot sym-
bolises the union of the Com-
munity, 62; reproduces the
Sacrifice of the Cross, 110-III;
to renew one's Profession at
Holy Mass, 118; the liturgy
of the Mass, full of the spirit
of compunction, 156-157; how
we ought to live our Mass, 118;
renders all glory to God
through Christ, 323; the kiss
of peace at Mass, 430.
MAUR (St), 272.

MECHTILDE (St), 35-36, 188,

264, 281, 322, 333-334, 386,
387, 412.
MECHTILDE OF MAGDEBOURG,
325.

Miseries, acknowledged, cal!

forth God's mercy, 216; to
appropriate to oneself the
riches of Christ, 439. See Weak-
nesses.

OLINOS, 351.
Monasticism, its end, 5 sq.; the
perfect development of our
adoption in Jesus, 32 sq.; its
analogy with the Church, 42,
75; perfection of Christianity,
95, 125, 127, 186, 256, 259,
428; makes strong souls, 143
sq.

Monastery, the monk's love for

his monastery, 80 sq.; 413 sq.
spiritual workshop, 122 sq.
can possess, 197; normal and
habitual place of the monk,
419; the peace to be tasted
there, 441-442, 443.
Monk, is fixed in the state of
perfection, 34-35; his union
with Christ, 35-36; should find
all in Him, 36-39, love and
submission that he owes to
the Abbot, 55-56, 273; how
he ought to hear his word,
57-59; obey him, 59-61; the
monk's faith in Christ, 89-90;
overcomes the world in order
to follow Christ, 90-91 ; perfect
Christian, 95; faith animates
and explains his life, 96; ought
to see all things in the light
of faith, 98 sq.; must renounce
everything to follow Christ,
107, 146; to ofier himself as a
holocaust at his Profession,
III sq.; to sanctify himself
according to the Holy Rule,
116. 311, 415; ought to keep
the observance, for love's sake,
138-142; to reproduce the
features of Christ, 146; for
love of Jesus, to embrace the
immolations of the monastic
life, 181-182; how the monk
may live his Mass, 188: must
expect all from the Abbot,
195-196; obedience gives value
to his actions, 261; the monk
should always see Christ in
the Abbot, 267-268; let him-
self be guided by the Abbot,
269 sq., 280; to love his
monastery, 414; absolute love
which the monk owes to Christ,
423 sq.; Jesus Christ, every-
thing for the monk, 443.
MORIN (Dom), 69, 404.
Mortification. See Renunciation.
MOSES, 274, 329.

Motive, its predominant influence
in the value of our actions, 2-3.
Murmuring, the evil of murmur-
ing, 55, 282 sq.

Novitiate (Canonical), 107.

Obedience, St. Benedict uncom-

promising for all that concerns
obedience, 60-61; must vivify
the labour of the monks, 71-72;
to obey one another, 79; to
submit private mortifications
to the control of obedience,
183 obedience must be im-
mediate at the sound of the
bell, 185; constitutes the
3rh degree of humility, 231;
causes holy abandonment to
be practised, 379. See Confe-
rence XII, pp. 250-290.
Obediences which appear impos-
sible to execute, 240-241, 275,
381.

Observance (Outward), must be
vivified by love, 136-142; kept
faithfully, the best of penances,
185; danger of breaches of
observance, 415.

Obstacles to divine union ought
to be generously set aside, 149
sq.

Order that reigned in creation,

before sin, 431.

Orders (Religious), their diversity,

67, 186, 259; their union with
the Church, 75; to sanctify
oneself according to the spirit
of one's Order, 116, 311, 415.
Origin, 366.

Ownership (Vice of). 193 sq. See
Poverty.

Parable of the Prodigal Son. 152;
of the Pharisee and Publican,
137, 214.
PASCAL, 140.
Patience in the midst of con-

tempt and difficulties, 231-232;
sister of obedience, 275; to
support mutually our failings
and infirmities, 402 sq., 406.
PAUL (St), 207, 240, 345, 402,
429 and passim.
Peace that self-surrendered souls
enjoy, 396. See Conference
XVIII, pp. 428-443.
Perfection (Benedictine), consists
above all in obedience, 263.
See Holiness.

Perseverance (Virtue of), needs

the virtue of fortitude, 143 sq.;
assured by renunciation, 174-
175.

PETER (St), 272.

PETER DAMIAN (St), 258.
Pharisaism, what it is, 137, 138,

139, 187, 214-215, 417; the
bitter zeal of which it is the
source, 398-399.

PIUS X, 31I.

Plaints, differ from murmuring,
285.

Poverty, makes us practice aban-
donment, 378. See Conference
X, pp. 191-209.

Praise. See Divine Office.
Prayer, necessity of prayer at the
beginning of ever undertaking,
133-134; to pray with com-
punction, 154-155; to have
recourse to prayer in time of
temptation, 166; necessity of
prayer in order to obtain com-
punction, 167; and to obtain
humility, 244. See Divine
Office; and Conference XV,
PP. 337-371.
Preaching, means employed by
God to save the world and
sanctify souls, 57.

Predestination in Jesus Christ 21,
73-74.

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Presence of God, ought to be
habitual to the monk, 367-368.
See Recollection.
Pride, how temptation subdues
it, 163-164; why God resists
the proud, 212 sq.; pride
does not accept reprimands,
231; urges us to hide our
faults, 232-233; seeks to
domineer and to make oneself
singular, 236; makes one
commit the sin of Lucifer,
247. See Humility.
Protestants, wherein especially
lies the difference between
Catholics and Protestants, 254.
Psalms, in them every form of
love towards God finds ex-
pression, 304-305; they con-
tain formulas of prayer for all
our needs, 312-314; Christ
said the Psalms, 322; to recite
them in union with Him, 322;
to adapt our soul to the diffe-
rent sentiments expressed in
them, 331. See Divine Office.
PSEUDO-DENYS, 6.

Recollection, necessary in order

to remain united to God, 128,
361; makes us live under the
eyes of God, 367-370. See Life
of Prayer.
Recreation, not to be absent from
it, 405-406.
Religious. See Monk.

Religious Life. See Monk. Monas-
ticism.

Religious Profession, inaugurates
our monastic life, 121; by
Profession the monk gives his
liberty and his whole being to
God, 257; to remain faithful
to what we gave on the day
of our Pro- fession, 270, 240,
379; second Baptism, 349. See
Conference VI, pp. 106-120.
Resistance to grace, unyielding-

ness of the soul; danger of this
disposition, 151, 438.
Respect, which ought to reign
among the members of a reli-
gious Community, 79-80, 400-

401.

Return to God, necessary for
sinful man, 20, 148; is carried
out in following Christ, 21 sq.;
by renunciation, 189; by obe-
dience, 256.

Reverence towards God, the only
true attitude of the creature,
223; caused by contemplation
of the Divine perfections, 224;
source of humility as conceived
by St. Benedict, 225 sq, 378;
ought to fill our soul during
Divine Office, 317, 329 sq.;
during prayer, 343.
Routine, how it is avoided, 104,
335.

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REYLANDT (Dom), 218, 219,
226, 238, 263, 276, 354.
Rule of St Benedict, abridgment
of Christianity, I; its "Chris-
tocentric character, 37-39;
shines by discretion, 50-51;
embued with kindness and
spirit of mercy, 53; its in-
fluence throughout centuries,
82; code according to which
we are to sanctify ourselves,
116, 311; leads to perfection,
380; pure reflection of the
Gospel, 404; everything in

it is arranged in order to gain
peace, 442.

Sacrifice of Christ. See Jesus
Christ.

Saints, mark to be found in all
the saints, in spite of their
various characters, 338.
Sanctity. See Holiness.
Seeking after God, end and aim
of monastic life, 67, 252, 259,
293, 442; requires absolute
detachment, 191-192, 395; God
gives Himself to the soul that
seeks Him alone, 443. See Con-
ference I, pp. 1-18.
Self-love, 151. See Pride.
Silence, constitutes one of the
best mortifications, 185; mark
of humility, 237; inviolable at
the" Station", 321; necessary
in order to be united to God,
361-363.

Sin, hinders union with God,
149 sq.; distinction to be made
between deliberate venial sin
and faults of frailty, 151; sin
has made man the enemy of
God, 432; not to trouble about
past sins, 439. See Compunc-
tion.

Singularity, 77 sq., 236.
Solitude, favours recollection,

361, 431; solitude of the soul,
362 363; our Lord leads us
into solitude that He may
speak to us, 371.

Spiritual Life, its simplicity and
sureness for souls living on the
Liturgy, 319. See Fidelity, Mor-
tification, Holiness, Watchful-

ness.

Stability, characteristic of the
Benedictine Life, 72-73; what
explains its importance, 73-75.
States of Prayer. See Ways (Spiri-
tual).
Sufferings, how the spirit of
compunction makes us accept
them, 159; necessity of suffer-
ings, 175; holy souls wish to
share in Christ's sufferings,
176; to receive from God's
hands the trials that He sends
us, 186; are of value only
through being united with

those of Jesus, 187 sq.; per-
missible to complain to God in
suffering, 285; ordinary way
to attain a high degree of
prayer, 360; abandonment to
God in hours of trial, 384-386;
to confide our sufferings to
Our Lord, 386-388; inevitable
sufferings in prayer made in
common, 306-309; do not
trouble the soul united to God,
438.

Superior. See Abbot.
Supernatural Life, its transcen-
dency over the natural life,
92-93; directed by the light
of faith, 97-98; to let Christ
govern our activity, 205-208;
all supernatural good comes
to us from God, 221-221. See
Adoption (Divine) Grace,
Holiness.

Temptation, we can overcome it
only through faith in Christ,
102; role of temptation in the
spiritual life, 161 sq., 394;
does not trouble the peace of
a soul that trusts in Our Lord,
437-438.

TERESA (S), 9, 14, 155, 156,

192, 239, 244, 245, 264, 289-
290, 335, 345, 371, 388, 402,
414, 418, 422.
TERTULLIAN, 28.
THOMAS of AQUINAS (S$), 3,

112, 116, 122, 121, 143, 144,
148, 210, 213, 215, 218, 220,
221, 223, 224, 227, 228, 230,
231, 234, 235, 237, 240, 241,
242, 243, 250, 279, 329, 413,
429, 431, 434, 442.
Tepidity. See Lukewarmness.
Trent (Council of), 95, 143, 222,
229, 316, 412.
Trinity (Blessed), procession of
the Divine Persons, 203.
Truth, to be true with the Abbot
and with oneself, 233; to see
things as God sees them, 291-
292; is the "science of the
Saints, 394.

Union with God, procures joy,

104-105; 369; can be obtained

only by renunciation, 189;
union in prayer, 358-360; God
unites us to Himself when we
have no longer any other will
than His, 288, 394-395. See
Recollection, Life of Prayer.
Uselessness, how it can creep into
our life, 7-8.

Vices, how the Abbot must cor-

rect them, 53-54; the harm
they cause to the soul, 128,
148-150; in what manner they
must be repressed, 175, 185.
VIRGIN MARY, did not deny

God's graces in her, 239; lived
in inward contemplation, 363.
Vision (Beatific). See Heaven.
Visits of God to the faithful and
recollected soul, 76, 368.
Vocation (Religious), has its
source in God's love for us,
40-41, 371.

Vows, in what consists the vow
of conversion of our man-
ners
established
149; are
to procure the practice of the
corresponding virtues, 181;
why the vow of poverty is
not explicitly formulated in
monastic profession, 193; will
form the matter of our judg-
ment at the last day, 287. See
Profession.

Watchfulness, to put away what
could separate us from God,
165.

Ways (Spiritual). how the three
states of prayer are not com-
pletely separated from each
other, 346-347.

a) the labour of conversion,
129, 131, 148-150, 347-349.
b) progress in faith and love,
104-130; the illuminative way,
349 sq.

c) the state of perfect charity,
131, 241, 363 ; the life of union,
358, 369; contemplation and
transforming prayer, 358 sq.
Weaknesses, the more we feel

ourselves weak, the more we
are strong, 247; we cannot
do anything without the help
of grace, 374-375; not to be
astonished at the weakness of

others, 538-537. See Grace,
Miseries.
WOLTER (Dom Maur), 417, 427.
Word (the Divine), Exemplar

of all creation, 92-93, 123; is
the Canticle eternally sung in
sinu Patris, 294; in becoming
Incarnate still remains the
Word, 295; by the Word-made-
Flesh the Eternal Canticle is
perpetuated in creation, 296.
Word of God, how it must be
heard, 57-59; in the Holy

Scriptures, 362 sq.
Work. See Labour.

Zeal, for God's glory and the
good of souls, 397-398, 421-
422, 424; bitter and excessive
zeal, 398-400; good zeal to be
exercised towards our brethren
in the cloister, 400-401; to-
wards the Community, 413 sq.;
apostolic zeal of monks, 416
sq.