A Topic of Moral Theology
Mortification (Self-denial)
The denial of self by which the appetites are brought under: its necessity, its measure, and the discretion it asks.
The works themselves ask 2 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Within this topic
See also The Means of Perfection — in The Spiritual Life (Christian Perfection)
Also asked about as…
denying yourself · penance as a practice (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 · FOOD that we should take: quality · CHASTITY, means to preserve it · Actions: perfection consists in performing our actions well · MODESTY of the eyes · Mortification · PASSIONS, how we should strive to combat them · PERFECTION, every Christian must strive to attain it · POVERTY, religious, its necessity · RULES: obedience to the Rule · SLEEP: mortification as to taking sleep · WILL, self-will, necessity of being detached from it · APPETITE, mortification of · CONFESSOR: need and choice of a director · CORRECTION, how to give it · COUNSELLORS, particular admonitions · Custody of the eyes · DISCIPLINES or FLAGELLATIONS, their use · DRESS, modesty and poverty in the manner in which we should clothe ourselves · EXAMINATION of conscience for confession · EYES, modesty and mortification of the eyes · FASTING recommended
In the manuals
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Pastoral Questions
Ch. III, Question I: Concerning the Pious and Devout, nn. ¶2609–¶2624 (16 passages)
The Catechism of the Council of Trent (The Roman Catechism)
Pt. III, The Sixth Commandment, n. ¶30 — Mortification. But the body is to be mortified and the sensual appetites to be repressed not only by fasting, and particularly, by the fasts instituted by the Church, but also by watching, pious pilgrimages, and other works of austerit… Read in context →
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, ¶707, ¶708, ¶709, ¶714, ¶715, ¶718, ¶722, ¶725, ¶726, ¶727, ¶730, ¶731, ¶732, ¶733, ¶734, ¶739, ¶740, ¶741, ¶744, ¶749, ¶750, ¶751, ¶752, ¶753, ¶754, ¶757, ¶761, ¶762, ¶763, ¶766, ¶767, ¶770, ¶775, ¶776, ¶777, ¶781, ¶782, ¶783, ¶784, ¶788, ¶794, ¶795, ¶796, ¶797, ¶801, ¶805, ¶806, ¶808, ¶810, ¶811, ¶813, ¶814, ¶815, ¶816, ¶821, ¶823, ¶824, ¶825, ¶827, ¶828, ¶831, ¶832, ¶837, ¶838, ¶839, ¶840, ¶842, ¶844, ¶847, ¶848, ¶849, ¶850, ¶853, ¶854, ¶857, ¶858, ¶859, ¶862, ¶867, ¶868, ¶870, ¶871, ¶872, ¶873, ¶876, ¶881, ¶882, ¶887, ¶891, ¶897, ¶898, ¶901 & ¶902 (134 passages — hover a number to read it)
Chapter VIII: Exterior Mortification, nn. ¶905, ¶906, ¶907, ¶909, ¶915, ¶916, ¶921, ¶923, ¶924, ¶927, ¶928, ¶929, ¶930, ¶935, ¶936, ¶942, ¶943, ¶949, ¶950, ¶954, ¶955, ¶959, ¶960, ¶962, ¶963, ¶964, ¶965, ¶966, ¶969, ¶970, ¶977, ¶978, ¶979, ¶983, ¶984, ¶987, ¶991, ¶997, ¶1001, ¶1002, ¶1003, ¶1004, ¶1005, ¶1011, ¶1012, ¶1013, ¶1014, ¶1018, ¶1019, ¶1020, ¶1023, ¶1024, ¶1025, ¶1026, ¶1029, ¶1030, ¶1031, ¶1033, ¶1034, ¶1036, ¶1042, ¶1044, ¶1045, ¶1049, ¶1050, ¶1055, ¶1056, ¶1057, ¶1059, ¶1060, ¶1061, ¶1069, ¶1074, ¶1075, ¶1077, ¶1083, ¶1084, ¶1089, ¶1090, ¶1091, ¶1097, ¶1100, ¶1101, ¶1102, ¶1103, ¶1105, ¶1108, ¶1109, ¶1110, ¶1113, ¶1114, ¶1115, ¶1116, ¶1117, ¶1118, ¶1119, ¶1120, ¶1121, ¶1122, ¶1124, ¶1125, ¶1126, ¶1127 & ¶1128 (104 passages — hover a number to read it)
Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues
Tr. I, Disputation XXVI: On Homic…, Q. IX, Doubt I: Whether it is lawful to shorten our life by mortifications, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Temperance — Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · Rickaby, Moral Philosophy · Rickaby, Four-Square — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)