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The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ

St Alphonsus Liguori († 1787) · Pratica di amar Gesù Cristo · 1768

Anonymous English translation, in The Holy Eucharist, vol. VI of the Centenary Edition of the ascetical works, ed. Eugene Grimm, C.SS.R. (1835–1891), New York: Benziger Brothers, 1887.

St Alphonsus’ commentary on St Paul’s praise of charity (1 Cor. xiii. 4-7), each chapter closing with “Affections and Prayers”. The footnotes give the Latin of his quotations.

  1. Introduction: how deserving Jesus Christ is of our love
  2. The love of Jesus Christ in the virtues of charity (1 Cor. xiii. 4-7)
  3. Chapter I. Charity is patient
  4. Chapter II. Charity is kind
  5. Chapter III. Charity envieth not
  6. Chapter IV. Charity dealeth not perversely
  7. Chapter V. Charity is not puffed up
  8. Chapter VI. Charity is not ambitious
  9. Chapter VII. Charity seeketh not her own
  10. Chapter VIII. Charity is not provoked to anger
  11. Chapter IX. Charity thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth with the truth
  12. Chapter X. Charity beareth all things
  13. Chapter XI. Charity believeth all things
  14. Chapter XII. Charity hopeth all things
  15. Chapter XIII. Charity beareth all things
  16. Summary of the virtues practised by him who loves Jesus Christ

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in The Holy Eucharist, vol. VI of the Centenary Edition of the ascetical works, ed. Eugene Grimm, C.SS.R. (1835–1891), New York: Benziger Brothers, 1887. Digital text: Internet Archive scan alphonsusworks06alfouoft (University of Toronto), read with three OCR engines and corrected; a few misreadings may remain. Public domain in the US and Canada: published in 1887; the editor, Eugene Grimm, died in 1891.

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