BLESSED FRANCIS' ESTIMATE OF VARIOUS VIRTUES.

UPON THE LESSER VIRTUES.

UPON INCREASE OF FAITH.

UPON TEMPTATIONS AGAINST FAITH.

UPON THE SAME SUBJECT.

UPON CONFIDENCE IN GOD.

OUR MISERY APPEALS TO GOD'S MERCY.

UPON SELF-DISTRUST.

UPON THE JUSTICE AND MERCY OF GOD.

WAITING UPON GOD.

UPON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A HOLY DESIRE OF REWARD AND A MERCENARY SPIRIT.

CONTINUATION OF THE SAME SUBJECT.

GOD SHOULD SUFFICE FOR US ALL.

CHARITY THE SHORT ROAD TO PERFECTION.

UPON WHAT IT IS TO LOVE GOD TRULY.

UPON THE LOVE OF GOD IN GENERAL.

ALL FOR LOVE OF GOD.

THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

UPON THE LOVE OF GOD, CALLED LOVE OF BENEVOLENCE.

DISINTERESTED LOVE OF GOD.

UPON THE CHARACTER OF A TRUE CHRISTIAN.

UPON NOT PUTTING LIMITS TO OUR LOVE OF GOD.

UPON THE LAW AND THE JUST MAN.

UPON DESIRES.

HOW CHARITY EXCELS BOTH FAITH AND HOPE.

SOME THOUGHTS OF BLESSED FRANCIS ON THE PASSION.

UPON THE VANITY OF HEATHEN PHILOSOPHY.

UPON THE PURE LOVE OF OUR NEIGHBOUR.

UPON BEARING WITH ONE ANOTHER.

UPON FRATERNAL CORRECTION.

UPON FINDING EXCUSES FOR THE FAULTS OF OUR FELLOW-MEN.

UPON NOT JUDGING OTHERS.

UPON JUDGING OURSELVES.

UPON SLANDER AND DETRACTION.

UPON HASTY JUDGMENTS.

UPON RIDICULING ONE'S NEIGHBOUR.

UPON CONTRADICTING OTHERS.

UPON LOVING OUR ENEMIES.

UPON FORGIVING OUR ENEMIES.

UPON THE VIRTUE OF CONDESCENSION.

HOW BLESSED FRANCIS ADAPTED HIMSELF TO TIMES, PLACES, AND CIRCUMSTANCES.

UPON THE DEFERENCE DUE TO OUR INFERIORS AND DEPENDENTS.

UPON THE WAY TO TREAT SERVANTS.

ANOTHER INSTANCE OF BLESSED FRANCIS' GENTLENESS WITH HIS OWN SERVANTS.

THE HOLY BISHOP NEVER REFUSED WHAT WAS ASKED OF HIM.

UPON ALMSGIVING.

OUR SAINT'S HOPEFULNESS IN REGARD TO THE CONVERSION OF SINNERS.

BLESSED FRANCIS' SOLICITUDE FOR MALEFACTORS CONDEMNED TO DEATH.

UPON THE SMALL NUMBER OF THE ELECT.

TO LOVE TO BE HATED, AND TO HATE TO BE LOVED.

UPON OBEDIENCE.

UPON THE OBEDIENCE THAT MAY BE PRACTISED BY SUPERIORS.

AN INSTANCE OF OUR SAINT'S OBEDIENCE.

UPON THE LOVE OF HOLY POVERTY.

UPON THE SAME SUBJECT.

UPON POVERTY OF SPIRIT.

FRANCIS' LOVE OF THE POOR.

UPON THE CHRISTIAN VIEW OF POVERTY.

UPON PROSPERITY.

UPON CHARITY AND CHASTITY.

UPON PURITY OF HEART.

UPON CHASTITY AND HUMILITY.

UPON MODESTY.

THE CONTEMPT HE FELT FOR HIS BODY.

UPON OUR SAINT'S HUMILITY.

UPON MERE HUMBLENESS OF SPEECH.

UPON VARIOUS DEGREES OF HUMILITY.

UPON HUMILIATION.

HUMILITY WITH REGARD TO PERFECTION.

UPON EXCUSES.

UPON OUR GOOD NAME.

UPON DESPISING THE ESTEEM OF MEN.

UPON THE VIRTUES WE SHOULD PRACTISE WHEN CALUMNIATED.

UPON SOME SPIRITUAL MAXIMS.

UPON PATIENCE.

HOW TO PROFIT BY BEARING WITH INSULTS.

UPON BEARING WITH IMPORTUNITIES.

THAT HE WHO COMPLAINS SINS.

BLESSED FRANCIS' CALMNESS IN TRIBULATION.

BLESSED FRANCIS' TEST OF PATIENCE IN SUFFERING.

UPON LONG ILLNESSES.

BLESSED FRANCIS' HOLY INDIFFERENCE IN ILLNESS.

UPON THE SHAPE OF THE CROSS.

A DIAMOND CROSS.

HOLY MAGDALEN AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS.

UPON THE POWER OF GENTLENESS AND PATIENCE.

A REJOINDER BOTH STRIKING AND INSTRUCTIVE.

BLESSED FRANCIS' FAVOURITE BEATITUDE.

HIS GRAVITY AND AFFABILITY.

HOW BLESSED FRANCIS DEALT WITH A CRIMINAL WHO DESPAIRED OF SALVATION.

UPON MORTIFICATION.

UPON THE SAME SUBJECT.

UPON FASTING.[1]

DOUBTS SOLVED AS TO SOLDIERS FASTING.

THE GOLDEN MEAN IN DISPENSATIONS.

UPON THE WORDS, "EAT OF ANYTHING THAT IS SET BEFORE YOU."

UPON THE STATE OF PERFECTION.

MARKS OF PROGRESS IN PERFECTION.

UPON THE PERFECTION AIMED AT IN RELIGIOUS HOUSES.

UPON FRUGALITY.

BLESSED FRANCIS' ESTEEM OF THE VIRTUE OF SIMPLICITY.

BLESSED FRANCIS' LOVE OF EXACTITUDE.

A TEST OF RELIGIOUS VOCATION.

UPON FOLLOWING THE COMMON LIFE.

UPON THE JUDGING OF VOCATIONS.

UPON PRUDENCE AND SIMPLICITY.

THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

UPON MENTAL PRAYER.

UPON ASPIRATIONS.

UPON INTERIOR RECOLLECTION AND EJACULATORY PRAYERS.

UPON DOING AND ENDURING.

UPON MORTIFICATION AND PRAYER.

UPON THE PRESENCE OF GOD.

HIS UNITY OF SPIRIT WITH GOD.

HIS GRATITUDE TO GOD FOR SPIRITUAL CONSOLATIONS.

UPON THE SHEDDING OF TEARS.

UPON JOY AND SADNESS.

UPON THE DEGREES OF TRUE DEVOTION.

THE TEST OF TRUE DEVOTION.

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A SERVANT OF GOD.

THAT DEVOTION DOES NOT ALWAYS SPRING FROM CHARITY.

UPON PERFECT CONTENTMENT IN THE PRIVATION OF ALL CONTENT.

UPON THE WILL OF GOD.

HIS RESIGNATION TO THE WILL OF GOD.

THAT WE MUST ALWAYS SUBMIT OURSELVES TO GOD'S HOLY WILL.

HIS SUBLIME THOUGHTS ON HOLY INDIFFERENCE.

NOTHING, SAVE SIN, HAPPENS TO US BUT BY THE WILL OF GOD.

UPON THE SAME SUBJECT.

UPON ABANDONING OURSELVES TO GOD.

UPON INTERIOR DESOLATION.

UPON THE PRESENCE IN OUR SOULS OF THE GRACE OF GOD.

UPON OUR DESIRE TO SAVE OUR SOUL.

UPON GOOD NATURAL INCLINATIONS.

HOW TO SPEAK OF GOD.

UPON ECCENTRICITIES IN DEVOTION.

UPON CONFRATERNITIES.

UPON INTERCOURSE WITH THE WORLD.

AGAINST OVER-EAGERNESS.

UPON THE SAME SUBJECT.

UPON LIBERTY OF SPIRIT.

UPON NATURE AND GRACE.

UPON EXAGGERATED INTROSPECTION.

UPON INTERIOR REFORMATION.

HIS VISION OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY.

HIS DEVOTION TO OUR BLESSED LADY.

HIS DEVOTION TO THE HOLY WINDING SHEET OF TURIN.

UPON MERIT.

UPON GOOD WILL AND GOOD DESIRES.

AGAINST THE MAKING OF RASH VOWS.

UPON THE PRO-PASSIONS OF OUR LORD.

HIS VICTORY OVER THE PASSIONS OF LOVE AND ANGER.

UPON OUR PASSIONS AND EMOTIONS.

HOW HE CAME TO WRITE HIS PHILOTHEA.

UPON THE EXAMPLE OF THE SAINTS.

UPON THE LOVE OF GOD'S WORD.

HIS LOVE OF RETIREMENT.

HOW HE SANCTIFIED HIS RECREATIONS.

WHAT HE DREW FROM SOME LINES OF POETRY.

UPON BEING CONTENT WITH OUR POSITION IN LIFE.

UPON SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND CONTENTEDNESS.

THE REVERENCE OF BLESSED FRANCIS FOR THE SICK.

UPON THE CARE OF THE SICK.

UPON SPEAKING WELL OF THE DEAD.

UPON DEATH.

UPON WISHING TO DIE.

UPON THE SAME SUBJECT.

UPON THE DESIRE OF HEAVEN.

WHAT IT IS TO DIE IN GOD.

UPON LENGTH OF LIFE.

UPON PURGATORY.

UPON PENANCE.

UPON PENITENT CONFUSION.

UPON INTERIOR PEACE AMIDST ANXIETIES.

UPON DISCOURAGEMENT.

UPON RISING AFTER A FALL.

UPON KINDLINESS TOWARDS OURSELVES.

UPON IMPERFECTIONS.

THE JUST MAN FALLS SEVEN TIMES IN THE DAY.

UPON THE PURGATIVE WAY.

UPON VENIAL SIN.

UPON COMPLICITY IN THE SINS OF ANOTHER.

UPON EQUIVOCATING.

UPON SOLITUDE.

UPON VANITY.

UPON THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH PUFFS UP.

UPON SCRUPLES.

UPON TEMPTATIONS.

UPON THE SAME SUBJECT.

THOUGHTS ON THE INCARNATION.

UPON CONFESSION AND COMMUNION.

UPON CONFESSION.

UPON A CHANGE OF CONFESSOR.

UPON DIFFERENT METHODS OF DIRECTION.

ADVICE UPON HAVING A DIRECTOR.

UPON TRUE AND MISTAKEN ZEAL.

UPON THE INSTITUTION OF THE VISITATION ORDER.

HIS DEFENCE OF HIS NEW CONGREGATION OF THE VISITATION.

UPON THE ODOUR OF SANCTITY.

HE REBUKES PHARISAISM.

UPON RELIGIOUS SUPERIORS.

UPON UNLEARNED SUPERIORS.

UPON THE FOUNDING OF CONVENTS.

UPON RECEIVING THE INFIRM INTO COMMUNITIES.

UPON SELF-PITY.

UPON THE GOVERNMENT OF NUNS BY RELIGIOUS MEN.

THAT WE MUST NOT BE WEDDED TO OUR OWN PLANS.

HIS VIEWS REGARDING ECCLESIASTICAL DIGNITIES.

HIS PROMOTION TO THE BISHOPRIC OF GENEVA AND HIS REFUSAL OF THE ARCHBISHOPRIC OF PARIS.

A BISHOP'S CARE FOR HIS FLOCK.

ON THE FIRST DUTY OF BISHOPS.

UPON THE PASTORAL CHARGE.

UPON THE CARE OF SOULS.

UPON LEARNING AND PIETY.

ADVICE TO BISHOP CAMUS AS TO RESIGNING HIS SEE.

THE JOYOUS SPIRIT OF BLESSED FRANCIS.

UPON DAILY MASS. HIS ADVICE TO A YOUNG PRIEST.[1]

A PRIEST SAYING MASS SHOULD BE CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS.

BLESSED FRANCIS ENCOURAGES THE BISHOP OF BELLEY.

UPON A COMPASSIONATE MIND.

UPON DOING ONE'S DUTY, WITHOUT RESPECT OF PERSONS.

THE HONOUR DUE TO VIRTUE.

UPON MEMORY AND JUDGMENT.

A PRIEST SHOULD NOT AIM AT IMITATING IN HIS SERMONS ANY PARTICULAR PREACHER.

UPON SHORT SERMONS.

UPON PREACHING AND PREACHERS.

BLESSED FRANCIS AND THE BISHOP OF BELLEY'S SERMON.

UPON CONTROVERSY.

THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

UPON REASON AND REASONING.

UPON QUOTING HOLY SCRIPTURE.

UPON POLITICAL DIPLOMACY.

UPON AMBITION.

UPON COURTS AND COURTIERS.

UPON THE CARNIVAL.

AN INSTANCE OF HIS COMPASSION FOR ANIMALS.

UPON HUNTING.

UPON THE FEAR OF GHOSTS.

HIS PORTRAIT.

UPON BLESSED FRANCIS' TRUE CHARITY.

THE END.