Spiritual Direction, and Auricular Confession
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ISBN13: 9780217321532
Paperback|9780217321532
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Isolation of Women.? Devotion Mse'e.'?Worldly Theology of the Jesuitt and of Home.? Management of Women and Children.?Thirty years War.?Gallant Devotion.?Devout Romances.?Casuists. We have been speaking of a rare exception?of the life of a woman full of works, and doubly full?a saint and founder of a religious order, who had, before, filled the station of a wife, the mother of a family, and wise mistress of a household. The biographies of Madame de Chantal remark upon it as a singular circumstance, that she had, as wife and widow, herself managed her household, governed her dependents, and managed the fortune of her husband, her father, and her children. This was, indeed, a rare circumstance at the time the biographies were written. The family tasks and domestic cares .which we find throughout the sixteenth century, particularly in the houses of burgesses and citizens, was lost in the seventeenth, when every body wished to live in the style of nobles. Idleness became a fashion of the epoch from its circumstances. All society was inactive on the morrow after the religious wars; all local action had ceased, and the central life of courts had hardly commenced. The nobility had finished their adventures, and the sword was hanged against the wall. The citizens had no more emeutes, conspiracies, armed processions, nothing, in short, to do. The ennui of this inactivity of the times weighed most heavily upon woman. She found herself unoccupied and isolated. In the sixteenth century she was in communication with man by the great questions which were debated even in the family circle?by common perils, fears and hopes. In the seventeenth there was nothing of all this. DIVIDE AND CONQUEH.: Add to the absence of these mutual emotions another great difficulty?an...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217321532 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217321534 |
| Weight | 0.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.36 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 156 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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