Exterior Mortification

The works themselves ask 1 question under this heading — see them together with their answers.

In the index as EXAMPLE: we should profit by the good example and give it to others · FOOD that we should take: quality · MORTIFICATION, interior · CHASTITY, means to preserve it · MODESTY of the eyes · POVERTY, religious, its necessity · SLEEP: mortification as to taking sleep · APPETITE, mortification of · Custody of the eyes · DISCIPLINES or FLAGELLATIONS, their use · DRESS, modesty and poverty in the manner in which we should clothe ourselves · EYES, modesty and mortification of the eyes · FASTING recommended · FLESH-MEAT, hurtful to the soul · FRIENDSHIPS, dangerous · HAIR-CLOTH, various kinds · LOVE, DIVINE · MELANCHOLY, an evil that should be avoided · Mortification · OBSERVANCE, zeal and firmness to sustain it · RECREATION: modesty in conversation · SADNESS, or melancholy, a fault that should be avoided · SINGULARITY, to be avoided · SMELL, sense of, should be mortified

In the manuals

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Treated under the broader heading Mortification (Self-denial) — The Roman Catechism — this work does not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so its treatment stands one heading up (ed.)