The Book of Divine Consolations of the Blessed Angela of Foligno

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Cosimo, Inc., 1 giu 2007 - 316 pagine

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TREATISE I
1
TREATISE II
24
CHAP PAGE
45
Of the Book of Life which is Christ
53
How Christ laid aside His wisdom and
59
Of the humility and contempt of our Saviour
66
Of the many and divers cruelties used towards
78
How that we should follow the infallible
84
Of the many signs and effects of love
146
Sixth Vision and Consolation wherein she beheld
178
Eighth Vision and Consolation wherein she beheld
186
Ninth Vision wherein it was certified unto
194
First Consolation of the Passion of Christ
201
Fourth Consolation of the Passion of Christ
206
Sixth Consolation of the Passion of our Lord Jesus
212
Seventh Consolation of the Passion of our Lord
220

An exhortation to take comfort and
93
How the heart must be given wholly unto
101
Of the humility and example of Christ
108
Of charity and how that we should fear
117
The soul is united with God in three
123
How that love created and excited
130
The way to find the love of God is
133
How that each person should desire
139
Fourth Vision of the Sacrament of the Altar
226
Second Vision of the Blessed Virgin
232
First Vision concerning her children
234
Instruction and Consolation received from
240
An Illumination of the understanding given unto
249
The testament and last admonition of the Blessed
258
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Pagina 118 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Pagina 112 - For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
Pagina 170 - ... love, yet when it saw that ineffable Thing it was itself filled with unutterable joy, and it was taken out of the state it was in, and placed in this great and ineffable state. . . . But if thou seekest to know that which I beheld, I can tell thee nothing, save that I beheld a Fullness and a Clearness, and felt them within me so abundantly that I cannot describe it, nor give any image thereof : for what I beheld was not bodily, but as though it were in heaven.
Pagina 62 - that ye sought me ? Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business ?"* In the course of his ministry, he taught his disciples, that he was not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."f He spoke of his submission to death as his own voluntary act, done in obedience to the will of the* Father: " No man taketh it (my life) from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have...
Pagina 173 - the eyes of my soul were opened and I beheld the plenitude of God, by which I understood the whole world both here and beyond the sea, the abyss, and all other things.
Pagina 179 - One time in Lent . . . the eyes of my soul were opened, and I saw Love advancing gently towards me, and I saw the beginning but not the end. There seemed to me only a continuation and an eternity thereof, so that I cannot tell its likeness nor colour; but directly this Love reached me I beheld all these things more clearly with the eyes of the soul than I could do with the eyes of the body. This Love came towards me after the manner of a sickle. Not that there was any actual and measureable likeness;...
Pagina 178 - I was lifted higher still ; and then I no longer beheld the power and will as before. But I beheld a Thing, as fixed and stable as it was indescribable; and more than this I cannot say, save that I have often said already, namely, that it was all good.
Pagina 6 - In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way of God ; my husband died likewise, and in a short time there also died all my children. And because I had commenced to follow the aforesaid way, and had prayed God that He MEANING AND VALUE OF MYSTICISM would rid me of them, I had great consolation of their deaths, albeit I did also feel some grief.
Pagina 29 - Paradise if this should endure, its joy being so great that it filleth the whole body . . . because of this change in my body therefore, I was not always able to conceal my state from my companion, or from the other persons with whom I consorted; because at times my countenance was all resplendent and rosy, and my eyes shone like candles.
Pagina 178 - I no longer beheld the power and will as before. But I beheld a Thing, as fixed and stable as it was indescribable; and more than this I cannot say, save that I have often said already, namely, that it was all good. And although my soul beheld not love, yet when it saw that indescribable Thing, it was itself filled with indescribable joy, so that it was taken out of the state it was in before, and placed in this great and ineffable state. I know not whether I was then in the body or out of the body....

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