This also includes meditations for every day in the week and a novena for All Souls Day. Also a devout method for hearing Mass from Saint Leonard of Port Maurice. Faith teaches, and we are obliged to believe, that Jesus Christ is really present in the consecrated Host, under the appearances of bread; but we should also know that he remains on our altars, as on a throne of love and of mercy, there to dispense his graces, and there to show his love for us, by remaining with us night and day in this hidden manner. We know that the holy Church has instituted the festival of the most holy...

There is another edition of this work in reprint, which is incomplete, ending at chapter 16. This edition has the complete work of Saint Alphonsus. Although originally written for nuns, lay people, both men and women, have found much good spiritual advice in these holy pages.