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Index
Introduction
I. Holiness Is the Work of the Holy Spirit
1. The Task is Beyond Our Power
2. Only God Knows Each Person’s Road
3. Faithfulness to Grace Draws Down Further Graces
II. How Can We Foster Inspirations?
1. Practice Praise and Thanksgiving
2. Desire and Ask For Them
3. Resolve to Refuse God Nothing
4. Practice Filial and Trusting Obedience
5. Practice Abandonment
6. Practice Detachment
7. Practice Silence and Peace
8. Persevere Faithfully in Prayer
9. Examine the Movements of Our Hearts
10. Open Our Hearts To a Spiritual Director
III. How Can We Know that an Inspiration Comes from God?
1. Progressively Acquire a “Spiritual Sense”
2. Criteria Confirming that an Inspiration Comes from God
External criterion: God doesn’t contradict Himself
Consistency with Holy Scripture and the teaching of the Church
Consistency with the demands of our vocation
Internal criterion: A tree is known by its fruit
Building up our experience
Discernment of spirits
Complementary signs: Constancy and humility
Is God’s will always the choice that is most difficult?
Different reactions depending on the importance of the inspirations
Being unresponsive to grace
Conclusion
Appendices
I. A Prayer by Cardinal Mercer
II. Quotations from Fr. Louis Lallemant (1587–1635)
1. Docility to the Holy Spirit
2. Means for reaching docility
3. Response to certain objections to docility
4. Motives for docility: Perfection and even salvation depend on docility to grace
5. The excellence of grace and the injustice of opposing it
III. Quotations from St. Francis de Sales (1567–1622)
1. Criteria for the discernment of spirits
2. Obedience, sign of the truth of inspirations
3. Brief method of recognizing God’s will
4. The Holy Spirit worked in our Lady without any obstacle
5. The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit
IV. Freedom and Submission
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