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St. Bonaventure's Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

St. Bonaventure's Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

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Number of Chapters: 86

Length: 13 hours and 01 minute

Language: English

Seeing himself as "unequal to so great a task", St. Bonaventure nevertheless endeavored to introduce his readers to the practice of "the most beneficial of all devout exercises, and that which is most capable of leading [them] to the summit of Christian perfection": the contemplation of the life of Our Lord. By "frequent and habitual meditations on that divine subject" even "very illiterate persons" have been raised to such "familiarity, confidence, and love of him" that they have become "profoundly versed in the most sublime mysteries of God". What better way "to arm our breast against the flattering, yet fleeting vanities of the world; to render us steady amidst tribulations and adversities; and finally, to preserve us from vice, and facilitate the possession of every virtue"? He addresses his reader in "plain and unpolished" language, "that you may the more easily comprehend the matter here treated, and study rather to improve your mind and heart than flatter your ears." "I hope still more, that if you are but diligent in the exercise of this devout study, that the Lord, whose life is here treated of, will become your master and instructor."
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St. Bonaventure's Preface (Eduardo)
Chapter I. The Angels intercede for Man's redemption (Eduardo)
Chapter II. The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and her seven petitions to God (Eduardo)
Chapter III. The Incarnation of Christ, and the angelical salutation of the Blessed Virgin (Eduardo)
Chapter IV. Our blessed Lady visits her cousin St. Elizabeth, in whose house the Magnificat and Benedictus were composed (Eduardo)
Chapter V. St. Joseph thinks of dismissing the Blessed Virgin, and God suffers his beloved to be afflicted (Eduardo)
Chapter VI. The Nativity of Jesus Christ (Eduardo)
Chapter VII. The Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ (Eduardo)
Chapter VIII. The Epiphany, or manifestation of our Lord Jesus (Eduardo)
Chapter IX. The Blessed Virgin remains at the crib at Bethlehem, till the full term of forty days is expired (Eduardo)
Chapter X. The Purification of our blessed Lady, or Candlemas-day (Eduardo)
Chapter XI. Christ's flight into Egypt (Eduardo)
Chapter XII. Our Lord's return from Egypt (Eduardo)
Chapter XIII. Our Lord remains at Jerusalem (Eduardo)
Chapter XIV. Our Lord's life from his twelfth to his thirtieth year (Eduardo)
Chapter XV. The Baptism of our Lord Jesus Christ (Eduardo)
Chapter XVI. The fast and temptation of Christ; his return to his mother; the four means to attain to a perfect purity of heart; the great advantages of prayer; the resistance to be made to gluttony; why, and for whom God works his miracles (Eduardo)
Chapter XVII. Christ opens the book in the synagogue (Eduardo)
Chapter XVIII. He calls his disciples (Eduardo)
Chapter XIX. The conversion of water into wine at the marriage-feast (Eduardo)
Chapter XX. The sermon of our Lord on the mount, which he begins by poverty (Eduardo)
Chapter XXI. The servant of the centurion and the son of the prince cured (Eduardo)
Chapter XXII. The paralytic brought in to our Lord by the house-top and cured (Eduardo)
Chapter XXIII. Our Lord cures Simon's mother-in-law (Eduardo)
Chapter XXIV. Our Lord sleeps in the boat (Eduardo)
Chapter XXV. The widow's son raised by our Lord (Eduardo)
Chapter XXVI. Our Lord raises a girl from the dead, and cures Martha (Eduardo)
Chapter XXVII. The conversion of Magdalen, and other things (Eduardo)
Chapter XXVIII. John sends his disciples to Jesus (Eduardo)
Chapter XXIX. The death of St. John the Baptist (Eduardo)
Chapter XXX. The conference our Lord had with the Samaritan woman, as he sat, being faint and wearied, by the side of the well to rest himself (Eduardo)
Chapter XXXI. The disciples of our Lord pluck ears of corn and eat them, through hunger, on the Sabbath (Eduardo)
Chapter XXXII. The Jews having driven our Lord Jesus out of the city to the top of a steep mountain, endeavor to throw him down thence (Eduardo)
Chapter XXXIII. The man with a withered hand cured by our Lord Jesus (Eduardo)
Chapter XXXIV. The multiplication of the loaves, and how our Lord provides for those who truly love him (Eduardo)
Chapter XXXV. Our Lord's flight when they would have made him king; and against worldly honors in general (Eduardo)
Chapter XXXVI. Our Lord prays on the mount; and descending walks on the waters; some reflections on prayer (Eduardo)
Chapter XXXVII. Christ relieves the daughter of the woman of Canaan who was possessed with the devil; our guardian angels faithfully assist us (Eduardo)
Chapter XXXVIII. The Pharisees and others scandalized at the words of our Lord (Eduardo)
Chapter XXXIX. The reward promised by our Lord to those who forsake all for him (Eduardo)
Chapter XL. Our Lord Jesus asks his disciples what the Jews say of him (Eduardo)
Chapter XLI. The glorious transfiguration of our Lord Jesus on Mount Tabor (Eduardo)
Chapter XLII. Our Lord casts the buyers and sellers out of the temple (Eduardo)
Chapter XLIII. The sick man who was healed at the water in Jerusalem, called Probatica Piscina (Eduardo)
Chapter XLIV. Our Lord Jesus received by the two sisters, Mary and Martha; and of the two sorts of lives signified thereby (Eduardo)
Chapter XLV. Our Lord warns the Jews that the church shall devolve on the Gentiles, in the parable of the husbandmen who killed the son of their Lord (Eduardo)
Chapter XLVI. The Jews seek to ensnare our Lord by his own words (Eduardo)
Chapter XLVII. The blind man restored to sight at Jericho; etc. (Eduardo)
Chapter XLVIII. Our Lord goes into the house of Zacheus (Eduardo)
Chapter XLIX. Christ gives sight to the man born blind (Eduardo)
Chapter L. Our Lord retreats from the temple to hide himself, when the Jews would have stoned him (Eduardo)
Chapter LI. The Jews seek a second time to stone him (Eduardo)
Chapter LII. The raising of Lazarus (Eduardo)
Chapter LIII. Christ curses the fig-tree (Eduardo)
Chapter LIV. The woman detected in adultery (Eduardo)
Chapter LV. The conspiracy of the Jews against Christ, and his flight into the city of Ephraim (Eduardo)
Chapter LVI. Our Lord's return to Bethania, where Mary Magdalen anoints his feet (Eduardo)
Chapter LVII. Our Lord Jesus comes to Jerusalem en Palm Sunday riding on an ass (Eduardo)
Chapter LVIII. What our Lord Jesus did from Palm Sunday to the following Thursday (Eduardo)
Chapter LIX. Our Lord's supper the night before his passion, and circumstances relating to it (Eduardo)
Chapter LX. The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, and his prayer in the garden (Eduardo)
Chapter LXI. Our Lord Jesus betrayed by Judas (Eduardo)
Chapter LXII. Our blessed Lord is carried before Pilate, scourged at the pillar, and crowned with thorns (Eduardo)
Chapter LXIII. Our Lord is condemned to suffer a cruel death on the cross, and compelled to carry the same to Mount Calvary (Eduardo)
Chapter LXIV. Our Lord Jesus Christ is nailed to the cross (Eduardo)
Chapter LXV. The words which our Lord spoke while hanging upon the cross: he yields up his spirit (Eduardo)
Chapter LXVI. The opening of our blessed Saviour's side with a spear (Eduardo)
Chapter LXVII. The descent of our Lord from the cross (Eduardo)
Chapter LXVIII. The embalming and burial of our Lord's body (Eduardo)
Chapter LXIX. Our blessed Lady's departure from the sepulchre, and return to Mount Sion (Eduardo)
Chapter LXX. A meditation on our blessed Lady's conversation with her devout companions (Eduardo)
Chapter LXXI. Our Lord Jesus descends into the Limbo of the Fathers (Eduardo)
Chapter LXXII. The glorious resurrection of our Lord Jesus, and his appearance first to his mother (Eduardo)
Chapter LXXIII. The coming of the three Marys to the sepulchre, etc. (Eduardo)
Chapter LXXIV. Our Lord's appearance to the holy women (Eduardo)
Chapter LXXV. Our Lord's appearance to Joseph, to James the less, and to Peter (Eduardo)
Chapter LXXVI. Christ returns to the holy Fathers after his resurrection (Eduardo)
Chapter LXXVII. Christ appears to the two disciples going to Emmaus (Eduardo)
Chapter LXXVIII. Our Lord appears to the disciples who were shut up on the day of the resurrection (Eduardo)
Chapter LXXIX. Our Lord appears to the disciples on the octave of Easter, when St. Thomas was with them (Eduardo)
Chapter LXXX. Our Lord appears to his disciples in Galilee (Eduardo)
Chapter LXXXI. He appears to them again near the sea of Tiberias (Eduardo)
Chapter LXXXII. Our Lord appears to more than five hundred disciples together; some remarks relating to his apparitions in general (Eduardo)
Chapter LXXXIII. The glorious ascension of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (Eduardo)
Chapter LXXXIV. The coming of the Holy Ghost (Eduardo)
Appendix. Rhythmical Prayer to the Sacred Members of Jesus hanging upon the Cross. By St. Bernard (Eduardo)
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