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Index. 477
MENTAL prayer, how necessary
it is to the priest, 214, 267, 289, 428,
454; without mental prayer
it will be difficult for a priest to be
saved, 455, and impossible for him to attain perfection, 462.
Mental prayer and mortification are the principal means to
sanctify one s self, 340. The time that we should give to mental
prayer, 214, 467. Answer to excuses: spiritual desolation, 294;
study, 295; labors, 299. We should often meditate on the Pas
sion of Jesus Christ, 215, 387, 438.
MODESTY, a virtue necessary to the priest, 240, 372; modesty in
words, 372, in dress, in his hair, 373, and above all in his looks,
252, 367.
MORTIFICATION in general, how necessary it is, 337;
it is the first means
to acquire sanctity, 258, 339; practice: detachment from prop
erty, 345, from honors, 351, from relatives, 354, from self-will,
357; means of conquering self-will, 360. Necessity of exterior
mortification, 362; its fruits, 365; practice: in the pains that
happen to us, and in lawful pleasures, 365; the eyes, 367; in the
whole exterior, 371; in the taste or appetite, 374; in the touch,
377, in the pains that happen of themselves, 379, 399. Sum
mary, 444. The good that is derived from a mortified life, 383.
O
OCCASION, necessity of avoiding it to preserve chastity, 248, 369.
Remote, proximate, voluntary, necessary occasion, 281. How
the confessor should act in regard to those in the occasion of sin,
282.
OFFICE, divine, how to recite it, 302.
ORDERS, sacred, see Priest, Vocation.
P
PARENTS, one need not obey them when there is question of voca
tion, 190. The priest should be detached from his relatives,
354-
PARISH PRIESTS, their responsibility in regard to
candidates for ordi
nation, 197.
PASSIONS should be subjected to reason, 341, and one should apply
one s self to the subjugation of the dominant passion, 343.
PATIENCE in pains and humiliations, a great means of sanctifying
one s self, 379, 399.
PENANCE administration of the sacrament of penance, see Confessor.
The priest should often confess, and obey his spiritual director,
357. 358, 434- Penitential works that should be practised, 377.
PERFECTION, see Sanctity.