A Topic of Moral Theology
Interior Mortification
The abnegation of self-love and of self-will: discovering the ruling passion, and bending the will that resists.
The works themselves ask 1 question under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Also asked about as…
abnegation of self-love · dying to self · self-will (ed.)
In the index as EXAMPLE: we should profit by the good example and give it to others · OBEDIENCE, the good that it brings us · MORTIFICATION, interior · PASSIONS, how we should strive to combat them · WILL, self-will, necessity of being detached from it · PEACE, interior, fruit of obedience · PERFECTION, every Christian must strive to attain it · SUPERIORS, obedience due to them
In the manuals
Pastoral Questions
Ch. III, Question I: Concerning the Pious and Devout, nn. ¶2620, ¶2621, ¶2622, ¶2623 & ¶2624 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
The True Spouse of Jesus Christ
Chapter VII: Interior Mortification, or Abnegation of Self-love—Obedience, nn. ¶580, ¶581, ¶585, ¶586, ¶591, ¶595, ¶596, ¶599, ¶602, ¶605, ¶610, ¶611, ¶614, ¶619, ¶623, ¶624, ¶628, ¶629, ¶630, ¶631, ¶633, ¶639, ¶643, ¶649, ¶658, ¶662, ¶666, ¶667, ¶672, ¶675, ¶676, ¶677, ¶682, ¶689, ¶690, ¶696, ¶700, ¶701, ¶704, ¶705 & ¶706 (41 passages — hover a number to read it)
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.)