The first section is on the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The next section is on visits to the Blessed Sacrament and to the Blessed Virgin Mary. This includes an instruction on Spiritual Communion. There are eight meditations for the Feast and Octave of Corpus Christi. This is followed by a Novena to the Sacred Heart. Over 200 pages are devoted to meditations on charity, commenting on Saint Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians, chapter 13: Charity is... This is followed by ten meditations on Charity. This work closes with a pious exercise to obtain the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost. Saint...

Saint Alphonsus tells us a good story: "If a traveller, on his journey to his own country; were to stop and spend his all in building a palace in a land through which he ought only to pass, and neglect to provide a dwelling for himself in that country in which her was to reside his whole life, he would be thought mad. And must not the Christian be deemed mad who think only of gratifying himself in this world, through which, he has only to pass during a few days, and heeds not the danger of being miserable in the next, where he must live forever, as long as God shall be God?" This holy saint...