Are Contemplative Orders superior to Active Orders? (3)

Martyrs: the prayers of the, 162-164;
  merits of the Martyrs, 256

Marvel, what it is to, 189

Mass, the: to be said distinctly, 122;
  the Prayers of, 147;
  the Prayer of the Consecration in the Mass, 149, 150

Maximus Valerius, On Socrates, 84

Meditation, 188, 190;
  causes devotion, 57;
  produces sadness as well as joy, 62-65;
  the need of it, 61;
  not to be neglected for vocal prayer, 123;
  fruitful subjects for, 60;
  meditation on the Sacred Passion, 59;
  on choosing subtle subjects for meditation, 58, 60, 61

Melancholy, no fruit of devotion, 64, 65

Merit:
  definition of, 166;
  source of, 240;
  merits and rewards, 242;
  none in Heaven, 166, 243;
  of the Active and Contemplative Life, 240-244;
  the merit of prayer, 141;
  those of the Saints, 163;
  how we can merit for others, 141

Military Religious Orders, 256

Monica, St., 123

Monte Cassino, 4

Moral Acts, their nature, 225

Moral Virtues, the:
  Justice is the chief of the moral virtues, 221;
  requisites for the moral virtues, 41;
  their place in the Contemplative Life 182-186;
  their function, 41, 43, 183-185;
  their part in the Active Life, 220-226;
  how far they remain after death, 230

Movements of the soul, the three, 172, 203-210

Mysticism, 1-3

Necessity, to make a virtue of, 35, 44

Nestorius's error concerning the Person of Christ, 161

Novelty of St. Thomas's teaching, 6, 7

"Obsecration" as a part of prayer, 147-149

Observance, strictness of, 257

Occultism, 3

Office, attention at the Divine, 128

Origen on sanctity, 47;
  on not swearing, 148

Passion, Meditation on the Sacred, 59, 63, 128

Perfection, 44

Peter Lombard, 25

Philosophy is better than riches, 236

Postillæ, 24

Prayer to St. Thomas before study, A, 16

Prayer: defined, 68, 69, 76, 78, 85, 102, 105, 127, 136, 148;
  it is an act, 161;
  not an act of the appetitive powers, 68, 71, 77;
  it is an act of the virtue of religion, 76-80, 161;
  after devotion, prayer is the highest act of the virtue of religion, 77;
  it is a conversation with God, 74;
  by it we become God's beggars, 110;
  it is peculiar to the rational creation, 112-114;
  in what sense the brute creatures pray, 114;
  prayer is a gift from God, 139;
  three requisites for prayer, 146;
  four requisites for prayer, 138;
  the real meaning of "petition," 78, 79;
  the prayer of desire, 92, 105;
  in what sense desire is not prayer, 77, 78;
  prayer is a real cause, 72, 74, 166
    Why we should pray:
  prayer is reasonable, 71-76, 107, 120, 147;
  the merit of prayer, 125, 137-143;
  the effects of prayer, 71, 120, 125, 132, 138;
  prayer causes union with God, 70, 71
    Errors concerning prayer:
  in general, 72;
  it is not an adjuring of God, 148;
  it never wearies God, 79, 80;
  "much speaking" in prayer, 135;
  it cannot change God's decrees, 72, 73, 86, 107, 161;
  it does not "bend" His will, 86;
  God knows beforehand what we would pray for, 73, 75, 80, 86, 120
    Of prayers heard and unheard:
  the condition necessary if our prayers are to be heard, 89, 96, 141, 144;
  of prayers heard in anger, 142, 143;
  in what sense the prayers of sinners are heard, 143-146;
  the prayers of the poor are speedily heard, 69;
  how the prayers of the Saints are heard, 162, 168;
  the prayers of the Martyrs and Apostles, 162, 163;
  why prayers are not heard, 142;
  of unheard prayers, 140;
  why our prayers for others are sometimes not heard, 96;
  in what sense the prayers of sinners are heard, 143-146
    How we should pray:
  at regular intervals, 134;
  our attitude in prayer, 150, 151;
  beginning occupations with prayer, 70;
  prayer "without ceasing," 91, 137;
  attention at prayer, 125;
  three kinds of attention, 120, 133;
  distractions, 121, 127-133;
  the length of our prayers, 133-137;
  hindrances to prayer, 75;
  the recitation of Psalms, 123;
  prayer "in spirit and in truth," 126;
  weariness in prayer, 134
    What we should pray for:
  the impetratory value of prayer, 138, 141;
  what we should pray for in general, 129, 142;
  for Beatitude, 85-87;
  prayer for definite things, 84-88;
  for "sufficiency of life," 89;
  against death, 83;
  for continence, 87;
  for knowledge of Holy Scripture, 88;
  for deliverance from toothache, 92, 94;
  for others, 95, 97, 98, 229;
  for the wicked, 97;
  for the good, 98;
  for our inferiors, 98;
  for temporal blessings, 89-95;
  for the predestinate, 167;
  for our enemies, 99-102;
  the Saints in Heaven pray for the resurrection of their bodies, 116
    To whom we should pray:
  not to God alone, 80-84;
  to the Angels, 81;
  to the Saints, 157-161;
  to the lesser Saints, 117
    Who pray for us, and how:
  the Angels pray for us, how, 114;
  in what sense the Son and the Holy Spirit are said to pray, 113, 115;
  how the Holy Spirit helps our prayers, 85;
  the Saints pray for us, 115-118;
  how, 156, 163, 166, 167;
  how we merit the prayers of the Saints, 162;
  how our prayers are known to the Saints, 152-157;
  those in Limbo prayed for those on earth, 118;
  those in Purgatory cannot pray for us, 117
    Divers forms of prayer:
  vocal prayer, 119-125;
  ejaculatory prayer, 134, 135;
  prayer in secret, 121;
  prayer of the heart, 124;
  thanksgiving as a part of prayer, 149;
  postulations as a part of prayer, 146-148
    The Lord's Prayer:
  we say not "my Father," but "our Father," 96;
  the seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer, 102-111;
  the Lord's Prayer not said without distractions, 132;
  in what sense we are tied to the Lord's Prayer as a formula, 136, 137
    The Church's prayers:
  in general, 76, 147, 158;
  public and private prayers, 119, 121, 122, 135;
  how the prayer "of many" avails, 98;
  the prayer of the Consecration at Mass, 149, 150

Prelates and Contemplative Life, 236

Prosper, St., the Book of Sentences Gleaned from St. Augustine, 140

Prudence: its relation to the other Moral Virtues, 224;
  it is requisite for the Active Life, 223-226

Purity of soul, 252

Purgatory: why the suffrages of the Church do not empty it at once, 167, 168;
  the souls in Purgatory do not know our needs, 83;
  neither do they pray for us, 83, 116, 118;
  Brother Romanus passed sixteen days in Purgatory, 12

Rabanus Maurus: his Gloss, 25;
  on Prayer, 69

Rachel, a type of the Contemplative Life, 163, 174, 180, 184, 234, 242

Reading necessary for prayer, 190

Reason: its function, 206;
  the higher and the lower, 249;
  the speculative and the practical, 68

Religion: the virtue of, 27-50;
  that it is a virtue, 34;
  definition of, 27-31, 39, 49;
  its principle is charity, 56;
  it is one virtue, 35;
  and a Moral Virtue, 40;
  and a special virtue, 37-39;
  not a Theological Virtue, 39;
  the via media in, 41;
  the harmony of, 42;
  is superior to the other Moral Virtues, 42;
  is not for God's profit, but for ours, 43;
  demands external acts, 44;
  how far it is identified with sanctity, 47-50

Religious Orders, the Active and Contemplative compared, 253-257

Religious people, 31, 50, 61;
  they are not always Saints, 50

Reposeful characters, 252

Romanus, Brother, appears to St. Thomas, 12

Sacrifice, the real nature of, 38, 46, 244

Saints, the: what it is to be a Saint, 50;
  they are not gloomy, 64, 65;
  their knowledge of our needs, 82, 152-157;
  their prayers for us, 115-118;
  they feel no grief for us on earth, 155;
  their wills are perfectly conformed to that of God, 116, 156, 163, 165, 167;
  the Communion of Saints, 158, 164;
  we ought to pray to them, 157-161;
  of devotion to the Saints, 57;
  to the lesser Saints, 117, 160;
  they are co-workers with God, 154;
  in what sense their prayers are always heard, 158, 162-168;
  their merits, 163, 166;
  how they pray for us, 163, 167

"Saint of Saints, The," 160

Scripture, prayer for knowledge of Holy, 88

Seneca: on petitions, 74;
  on idolatry, 46

Sentences, the Book of, 6, 25

Sinners, prayer for: 97;
  the prayers of sinners, 143-146

Sins of conversation, 110

Socrates on prayer, 84

Solicitude, how far it is forbidden, 90

Sorrow, as an effect of devotion, 62, 64

Speculation, 189

Spirit, the Holy, how He helps us to pray, 85

"Spirit and truth," prayer in, 126, 127

Spiritualism, 3

Stability implied in the notion of sanctity, 49

Strabo, Walafrid, his Gloss, 24

Strictness of life not an end in itself, 257

"Sufficiency of life," prayer for, 89

Suffrages for the Dead, 167, 168

Summa Theologica: the broad divisions of, 19, 20;
  the method employed in, 21, 22;
  the Tertia Pars, 13

Superiors and Contemplation, 238

Supererogation, works of, 44

Superstition, 42

Supersubstantial Bread, 103

Supplications as a part of prayer, 146

Swearing, Origen on, 148

Teaching: in what it consists, 227, 228;
  due to Contemplation, 227;
  how far it belongs to the Active Life, 226-229;
  the beauty of the teaching life, 227;
  how the Angels teach, 231

Temperance: a necessity for the Contemplative Life, 184, 185;
  how far it is identical with sanctity, 50

Temporal things: the part they play in our life, 89;
  they are "stepping-stones" to Heaven, 91;
  how far they may be asked for, 89-95

Thanksgivings as part of prayer, 147

Theological Virtues, the, 39-41, 191, 192

Theosebeia, 31

Thomas Aquinas, St.: born at Rocca Secca, 4;
  his early occupation with Divine things, 5;
  goes to Monte Cassino, 4;
  to Naples University, 5;
  receives the habit of the Friars Preachers, 5;
  is sent to Santa Sabina, 5;
  is imprisoned, and studies the Bible, the Sentences, and the Philosophy of Aristotle, 6;
  is created Bachelor in Theology, 6;
  the novelty of his teaching, 7, 8;
  created Master in Theology, 7;
  says he would prefer to possess St. Chrysostom's Commentaries on the Gospel according to St. Matthew to the possession of the city of Paris, 10;
  hears from Our Lord's lips, Bene scripsisti de Me, Thoma, 10;
  his three petitions, 8;
  his prayer before study, 8-11;
  is visited by St. Peter and St. Paul, who explain to him a passage of Isaias, 11;
  Brother Romanus appears to him, 12;
  his approaching end is revealed to him, 12, 13;
  the Crucifix speaks to him, 13;
  he ceases to write, 14;
  his emotion on hearing the words, Ne projicias nos, sung, 14;
  is summoned to the Council of Lyons, 14;
  his faith in the Holy Eucharist, 9, 15;
  his dying words, 15;
  his rhythm, Adoro Te Devote, 112;
  the method of his teaching, 19;
  his teaching is regarded as miraculous, 23;
  his use of the works of the Fathers, 16, 18, 23;
  his teaching and that of St. Augustine, 16-18;
  his self-effacement, 23

Tocco, William of, biographer of St. Thomas, 5 note, 6, 8, 9, 11, 15

Toothache: St. Thomas's deliverance from it, 93;
  St. Augustine's deliverance from it, 93

Trinity, the Holy: how to pray to, 81;
  the Collect for Trinity Sunday, 147

Union with God, 3, 197, 198.
Cf. s.v. God

Valgornera, Theologia Mystica, 1

Via media in religion, 41

Vigilantius's errors regarding prayer, 117, 162

Virginity, 50

Virgins, the five wise and the five foolish, 247

Virtue: definition of, 34;
  its praiseworthy character, 43;
  it lies in the will, 43

Walafrid Strabo, his Gloss, 24

Will: the object of the, 57;
  its functions, 52, 70;
  the part it plays in the Contemplative Life, 179-181

Women, the natural devotion of, 59

Worship: in what it consists, 41

Zeal for souls, 243, 244