Meditations – St. Ignatius of Loyola
Meditations – St. Francis DeSales
The following meditations are taken from St. Francis DeSales classic book “An Introduction to a Devout Life”. They were written as an aide to spiritual renewal, “In order to obtain this sensitiveness and contrition, exercise yourself carefully in the following meditations which, if well practiced, will, by the grace of God, uproot from your heart both sin and the affections of sin. I have prepared them to that end; and would have you take them in order, one daily, and as early in the morning as possible, for that is the fittest time for such exercises, then ponder and ruminate over it during the rest of the day.”
Meditation Two – Of the End for Which we Were Created.
Meditation Three – Of the Gifts of God.
Meditation Six – On Judgement.
Meditation Eight – On Paradise.
Meditation Nine – On the Choice Upon to You Between Heaven and Hell.
Meditation Ten – How the Soul Chooses the Devout Life.