Spiritual Letters

by Chapman, John

• ISBN13: 9780860123347
• ISBN10: 0860123340
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Burns & Oates Ltd

Summary

Abbott Chapman's Spiritual Letters, collected and edited posthumously by Dom Roger Hudleston, have been read and found of profound help by countless thousands since they were first published almost half a century ago.

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION	v
A MEMOIR OF ABBOT CHAPMAN	1	(32)
PART I LETTERS TO LAY FOLK
1-16 TO ONE LIVING IN THE WORLD	33	(24)
17-22 TO A LITERARY MAN	57	(22)
23-25 TO ALGAR? HOROLD, ESQ., EDITOR OF " THE DUBLIN REVIEW "	79	(4)
26-27 TO AN UNMARRIED LADY	83	(11)
28-33 TO A LADY LIVING IN THE WORLD	94	(9)
34-36 TO A MARRIED LADY	103	(4)
37-38 TO A LADY LIVING IN THE WORLD	107	(2)
39 TO A MARRIED LADY	109	(4)
PART II LETTERS TO RELIGIOUS
40-41 TO A BENEDICTINE MONK	113	(3)
42-50 TO A CANONESS REGULAR OF THE LATERAN	116	(16)
51-53 TO TWO OTHERS OF THE SAME ORDER	132	(3)
54-72 TO A BENEDICTINE NUN	135	(36)
73-74 TO A CANONESS REGULAR OF THE LATERAN	171	(7)
75-76 TO AN URSULINE NUN	178	(6)
77-79 TO A SERVITE NUN	184	(3)
80 TO A CARMELITE NUN	187	(1)
81 TO A SECULAR PRIEST	187	(4)
PART III LETTERS TO A JESUIT
82-95 TO A JESUIT SCHOLASTIC	191	(96)
APPENDIX I
CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER, A FEW SIMPLE RULES	287	(8)
A NOTE UPON " CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER "	295	(2)
APPENDIX II
WHAT " IS " MYSTICISM?	297	(28)
SUPPLEMENT
96-99 TO A SECULAR PRIEST	325	(8)
100 TO A YOUNG RELIGIOUS	333