No results may be expected from a vague desire for the interior life, conceived after the hurried reading of some book.
This desire must take shape in a precise, fervent, and practical resolution.
Many active workers have asked us to help them on their way to carry out their project of an interior life by stating a few general resolutions.
The answer to their requests means adding a kind of appendix to the present volume.
However, we are glad to accede to their desires, since we are convinced that no active worker, priest or layman, will have truly profited by the reading of what has been said so far, unless he is fully determined to set apart a certain time, every morning, for mental prayer; and that, on the other hand, no priest who wishes to make progress in the interior life can neglect to use the liturgical life or to practice custody of the heart.
It seems to us more practical to present these three points in the form of personal resolutions.
We make no pretense of originating a new method of mental prayer, but merely attempt to extract the pith of the best methods.
I. Fidelity to Mental Prayer
II. What Mental Prayer Ought to Be
III. How Am I Going to Make My Mental Prayer?
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