Prudentia Politica: The most extraordinary (and little known) book ever written about our Faith...

viernes, 19 de julio de 2013

The most extraordinary (and little known) book ever written about our Faith...

Catechism of the

"Summa Theologica"

of

Saint Thomas Aquinas

For the Use of the Faithful

by

R. P. Thomas Pègues, O.P.

Master in Theology

Member of the Roman Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas

Formerly Professor of St. Thomas at the Collegio Angelico, Rome

Now Regent of Studies at St. Maximin, France

Adapted from the French and

Done into English by Aelred Whitacre, O.P.

"Deriventur fontes ti foras;

et in plateis aquas tuas divide."

-- Prov. V. 16.

New York, Cincinnati, Chicago

Benziger Brothers

Printers to the Holy Apostolic See

Publishers of Benziger's Magazine

1922

Read here: http://www3.nd.edu/

Contents

Brief of His Holiness Pope Benedict XV

Foreword

The First Part

Of God

Sovereign Being: Cause and Lord of All Things

Of God's existence

Of God's nature and attributes

Of the divine operations

Of the divine persons

Of the creation

Of the world

Of the angels: their nature

Of the inner life of the angels

Of the creation of the angels

Of the probation of the angels

Of the fall of the bad angels

Of the creation of material substances, and the work of the six days

Of man: his nature; his spiritual and immortal soul

Of the vegetative and sensitive powers

Of the mind and its act of understanding

Of man's powers of loving: free will

Of man's origin or his creation by God

Of the state of happiness in which man was created

Of the conservation of things and their government

Of God's action in the government of the universe; and of miracles

Of the action this government

Of the angels: the hierarchies and the orders

Of the action of the good angels on the corporeal world.

Of the action of the good angels upon man; the guardian angels

Of the action of the bad angels or of the demons

Of the action of the material world or of the whole of the cosmos

Of the action of man himself

Of the point upon which the whole course of divine government is centered

The Second Part

Of Man

Who came from God and who must return to Him

First Section

General View of Man's Return to God

Of man's resemblance to God
Of the last end or happiness
Of the object of this happiness
Of the possession of this happiness
Of the means of realizing this possession, or of the good acts
Of what is implied in a human act for it to be a good meritorious act
Of the affective movements (passions)
Of the virtues
Of the gifts which crown and perfect the virtues
Of the beatitudes and of the fruit of the Holy Spirit
Of vices which are the principle of man's bad actions
Of original sin, and of its consequences
Of the diverse gravity of sins
Of mortal sins and venial sins
Of the exterior principle (law)
Of divers laws; and first, of the eternal law
Of the natural law
Of human law
Of the divine law -- the decalogue
Of grace

Second Section

Detailed View of Man's Return to God

Of the species of good and bad acts considered in detail

Of faith and its nature

Of the gifts of the holy ghost that correspond to faith

Of the precepts relating to faith

Of hope and its nature -- of the vices opposed thereto

Of the gift of fear which corresponds to the virtue of hope

Of the precepts relating to hope

Of charity and its nature

Of the secondary acts, or the effects of charity

Of the vices opposed to charity and their acts: of hatred

Of the precepts relating to charity

Of the gift of wisdom which corresponds to charity

Of the moral virtues: of prudence, its nature and elements

Of the gift of counsel which corresponds to prudence

Of the sins that are opposed to prudence, viz., of imprudence

Of the precepts relating to prudence

Of justice and its nature; of law; of natural law; of positive

Of the act of particular justice, viz.,judgment

Of particular justice, and of its species

Of the act of commutative justice, viz., of restitution

Of the sins opposed to distributive justice

Of the right of property, and of the duties it entails

Of the sins against justice by words; of the judgment

Of the sins of speech committed in the ordinary course of life

Of the sins that deceive our neighbour (fraud and usury)

Of the elements of the virtue of justice

Of the virtues attaching to justice: of religion

Of religion and its nature

Of religion and its interior acts: of devotion; of prayer

Of the external acts of religion: of adoration; of sacrifice

Of the sins opposed to religion: of superstition, and of divination

Of filial respect towards one's parents, and towards one's country

Of reverence towards superiors

Of gratitude

Of revenge or of retributive justice

Of truthfulness -- and of the sins opposed thereto

Of friendship; and of the opposite sins

Of liberality; and of the sins opposed thereto

Of natural equity (or epikeia)

Of the gift of piety

Of the precepts relating to justice

Of the virtue of fortitude and its act; of martyrdom

Of the virtues annexed to fortitude; of magnanimity

Of magnificence; and of the sins thereto opposed

Of patience -- of longanimity and of constancy

Of perseverance; and of the sins opposed thereto

Of the gift of fortitude

Of the precepts relating to fortitude

Of temperance; of abstinence, and of fasting

Of sobriety and of the sin opposed to it, viz., drunkenness

Of chastity and of virginity

Of the virtues annexed to temperance, viz., of continence

Of clemency and of meekness; and of the sins opposed thereto

Of modesty: of humility and of its opposite sin pride

Of the virtue of the studious

Of external modesty

Of the gift that corresponds to the virtue of temperance

Of the precepts relating to temperance

Of the two kinds of life, viz., of the active and the contemplative

The Third Part

Jesus Christ

God made man in order to lead men to God

Of the mystery of the Incarnation

Of the fittingness and necessity of the Incarnation

Concerning that which the son of God took of us

Of the privileges or prerogatives of the human nature

Of the fulness of grace in the human nature

Of the grace of Christ in so far as he is head of the church

Of the knowledge of Christ: of his beatific knowledge

Of the power of our Lord Jesus Christ as man

Of the defects of Christ's human nature;

Of the consequences of the incarnation of the son of God

Of the unity and multiplicity in Jesus Christ

Of the consequences of the incarnation of God the son

Of Christ's divine sonship; and of his predestination

Of the consequences of the incarnation in relation to us

Of the manner according to which the incarnation took place

Of Christ's entry into the world

Of the name Jesus Christ given to God the son incarnate

Of the baptism of Jesus Christ

Of our blessed Lord's life on earth: of his temptation

Of our blessed Lord's leavin'g this world

Of our Lord's descent into hell

Of the exaltation of Jesus Christ: of his resurrection

Of his ascension; and of his authority

Of the sacraments of Jesus Christ: of their nature and

Of the sacrament of baptism: of its nature

Of those who can receive the sacrament of baptism

Of the effects of the sacrament of baptism

Of the dignity and of the duties

Of the sacrament of confirmation; of its nature and necessity

Which of the two sacraments requires the better instruction: confirmation or Holy Eucharist?

Of the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist

Of the matter and form of the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist

Of the effects of the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist

Of the reception of the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist

Of the minister of the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist

Of the holy sacrifice of the mass

Of the sacrament of penance: of its nature and virtue

Of the effects of the sacrament of penance

Of the part of the penitent in the sacrament of penance

Of the minister of the sacrament of penance,

Of the sacrament of extreme unction

Of the sacrament of holy orders

Of the sacrament of matrimony; of its nature, impediments, duties

Of the intermediary state of souls after death and of purgatory

Of heaven

Of hell

Of the particular judgment

Of the place of those who are not judged (limbo of infants)

Of the end of the world and the sequel thereof

Of the resurrection

Of the last judgment

Of eternal punishment

Of eternal happiness

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