 NOTE: THE DIRECTORIES WHEREIN THE EXCERPTS ARE FOUND ARE CAPITALIZED; THE SUBJECT IS IN PARENTHESIS, ALSO CAPITALIZED.  CATHOLIC CLASSICS: Deathbed Conversions CHRIST THE KING: [EXISTENCE AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD, PROVIDENCE AND GRACE SECTION 1, in 14 parts] God the Prime Mover The Order in the Universe and Providence God, the Supreme Being and Supreme Truth God the Sovereign Good and the Desire for Happiness God, the Ultimate Foundation of Duty On the Nature of God The Divine Simplicity The Infinity of God The Immensity of God The Eternity of God The Divine Incomprehensibility The Wisdom of God The Will and Holy Love of God The Notion of Providence The Characteristics of Providence According to the Old Testament The Hidden Ways of Providence and the Book of Job Providence According to the Gospel Providence and Prayer PROVIDENCE AND GRACE SECTION 4: LENT DIRECTORY, 4 CHAPTERS WHY AND IN WHAT MATTERS WE SHOULD ABANDON OURSELVES TO PROVIDENCE THE MANNER IN WHICH WE MUST ABANDON OURSELVES TO PROVIDENCE PROVIDENCE AND THE DUTY OF THE PRESENT MOMENT THE GRACE OF THE PRESENT MOMENT AND FIDELITY IN LITTLE THINGS The Precept of the Love of God Prayer in General The Heroic Degree of Virtues: A Sub-Directory The Reparational Life The Spiritual Age of Beginners Sins to be Avoided The Predominant Fault Prayer to Overcome Our Predominant Fault The Purification of the Intellect The Purification of the Will Prayer for the Purification of the Will The Healing of Pride The Healing of Sloth The Love of Jesus Crucified and of Mary in the Unitive Way Prayer for Spiritual Union with Jesus MARY: Mary's Plenitude of Grace The Consequence of Mary's Plenitude of Grace Mary and the Distribution of Grace The Universality of Her Mediation, Section 1 The Universality of Her Mediation, Section 2 The Universality of Her Mediation, Section 3 The Mother of Mercy Her Queenship, Part 1 Her Queenship, Part 2 Sovereign Redemption and Its Fruits in Mary Mary's Intellectual Endowments and Her Principal Virtues Discourse on the Immaculate Conception Infused Grace, Contemplation and Mary The Influence of Mary Mediatrix Devotion to Mary in Proficients TRADITION [GRACE AND PROVIDENCE SECTION 2]: The Practical Consequences of the Doctrine of St. Thomas on Grace 1 The Practical Consequences of the Doctrine of St. Thomas on Grace 2 The Practical Consequences of the Doctrine of St. Thomas on Grace 3 Providence and the Grace of a Happy Death Providence and Mercy The Prayer of Quiet of St. Teresa of Avila  ABOUT THE AUTHOR:  Fr. Reginald Marie Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. (1877-1964) is considered the greatest Catholic theologian of the 20th century. Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange came to the attention of Catholic scholars early in the last century, when he wrote against Modernism. Knowing that Modernism---which denied the objective truth of Divine revelation and taught an heretical conception of the evolution of dogma---attacked the very heart of the Catholic faith, Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange authored what are now classic works on apologetics, in defense of the Catholic Faith by way of both philosophy and theology. He taught at the Angelicum in Rome from 1909 to 1960, and served as a consultor to the Holy Office and other Roman Congregations for several years. He is most famous, however, for his works, an astonishing 500 books and articles. In these he has demonstrated that he is a true son of St. Thomas Aquinas [full-color picture above] in the classic Dominican tradition. The sepia image of Fr. Lagrange is one of the few of the theologian in later life that does not feature the glasses he often wore. Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange was best known for his spiritual theology, especially for insisting "that all are called to holiness and for zealously propounding the thesis that infused contemplation and the resulting mystical life are in the normal way of holiness or Christian perfection. His classic work in this field---and his overall masterpiece---is The Three Ages of the Interior Life, in which the Catholic Faith stands out in all its splendor as a Divine work of incomparable integrity, structure and beauty, ordered to raise man to the Divine life of grace and bring to flower in him the "supernatural organism" of Sanctifying Grace and the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost---the wellsprings of all true mysticism. Among his other famous theological works are The Three Ways of the Spiritual Life, Christian Perfection and Contemplation (a forerunner of The Three Ages of the Interior Life), The Love of God and the Cross of Jesus, The Mother of the Saviour and our Interior Life, and Christ the Saviour."  E-MAIL HOME------------------CATHOLIC CLASSICS www.catholictradition.org/Christ/lagrange.htm |