Untitled - Saints' Books

Index. 479
READING, spiritual, to be made every day, 431.
RELAPSING SINNERS, how the priest should treat them, 283, 285.
RETREAT, monthly, recommended to priests, 434.
RUBRICS of the Mass, they bind under pain of sin, 218, 220.
RULE of life for a secular priest, 427.
RULES spiritual for a priest who aspires to perfection, 436.
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SANCTITY which a priest should have, 48, 97, no, 122, 178, 230, 286.
Perfection required for admission to holy Orders, 192;
it should
be greater than that of the simply religious, 192. See Chastity,
Mortification, Mental Prayer, Vocation. Rule of life, 427. Spirit
ual Rules, 436. Spiritual Maxims, 446. The priest should labor
for the sanctification of souls, see Souls.
SCANDAL given by the priest, its gravity, its consequences, 138, 231.
SCIENCE requisite in order to take holy Orders, 193; in order to hear
confessions, 273. The science of the saints necessary before all,
296, 449, 468.
SERMON, see Preaching.
SEVERITY, sometimes just and necessary, 326.
SILENCE, one should love it, and should speak only to edify others,
37i, 439-
SiN; gravity of the sins of the priest, 70, 109, 128, 142; chastisement,
75, 113; the sin of scandal, 138. See Incontinence. The little
faults about which one cares not disposes one to grievous faults,
89, 93, 103. A priest cannot be satisfied with avoiding grievous
sins, 97. How venial sins are cancelled, 102. Sin is incom
patible with mental prayer, 292.
We should avoid every sin, and
being troubled after sin, 329, 436. The sin of him who enters
holy Orders without a vocation, 198. The confessor should
avoid judging lightly that a sin is a mortal sin, 278.
SOBRIETY, always necessary, 374, 430, especially at supper, 433.
SOLITUDE, how much one should love it, 439.
SOULS, the priest should labor for their salvation, 154, 161, 266;
means to be employed, 178, 265, 422; pleasures that it gives to
God when we labor for the salvation of souls, 166; reward of his
zeal, 172. He should, above all, sanctify himself, 298; he should
fear offices to which the care of souls is attached, 253.
SPEECH, the priest should speak little and in a proper manner, 371.
STUDY: it is necessary for the priest to study Moral Theology, 273;
Study does not prevent one from practising mental prayer, 295;