Journal of a Soul.
- 1st ed.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- TRANSLATOR'S NOTE -- INTRODUCTION -- MEDITATION -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- CHRONOLOGY 1881-1963 -- I-JOURNAL OF A SOUL 1895-1962 -- 1895-1900: In the Seminary at Bergamo -- 1895 [1] Rules of life to be observed by young men who wish to make progress in the life of piety and study -- 1896 [2] Resolutions made during the Spiritual Exercises of 1896 and confirmed in 1897 and 1898 -- 1897 [3] Of holy purity -- 1898 [4] Spiritual notes -- [5] Spiritual notes from the monthly retreat after the death of my parish priest, Father Rebuzzini, the saintly guardian of my childhood and my vocation -- [6] Maxims derived from meditations during the retreat, 1898 -- 1899 [7] Spiritual notes -- 1900 [8] Impressions and reflections during the holy retreat of the Year of Grace 1900, February, seminary of Bergamo -- [9] A solemn promise to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, made under the patronage of St Aloysius Gonzaga -- [10] Holy Year, 1900-Jesus, Mary, Joseph! -- 1901-1903: In the Seminary in Rome -- 1901 [11] Spiritual retreat, 28 April, 1901. Rome. Third Sunday after Easter -- 1902 [12] & -- #134 -- Jesus, Mary, Joseph! Notes made during the Spiritual Exercises after the Babylonian Captivity, 10-20 December, 1902, under Father Francesco Pitocchi -- [13] The Year of Grace, 1902-spiritual diary in the name of the Lord. Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love for you -- 1903 [14] Spiritual notes -- [15] & -- #134 -- Jesus, Mary, Joseph! Notes written during the Easter retreat in preparation for the order of subdeacon, 1-10 April, 1903 -- [16] During the mid-vacation retreat at Roccantica, 29 August, 1903 -- [17] During the Triduum at the beginning of the academic year, Rome, 1-3 November, 1903 -- [18] & -- #134. Jesus, Mary, Joseph! During the retreat in preparation for the ordination to the diaconate, 9-18 December, 1903 -- 1904: The Year of My Ordination as Priest -- 1904 [19] Feast of the Holy Family, 24 January, 1904 -- [20] Triduum Exercises of Holy Week, 28-29-30 March, 1904 -- [21] & -- #134 -- Jesus, Mary, Joseph! 1-10 August, 1904. Notes written during the retreat in preparation for my ordination as a priest. Made in the Retreat House of the Passionist Fathers of St John and St Paul on the Caelian Hill -- [22] & -- #134 -- Jesus, Mary, Joseph! 4 November, 1904. Triduum before the beginning of the academic year -- [23] 8 December, 1904. Fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary -- 1905-1914: Secretary to Mgr Radini Tedeschi, Bishop of Bergamo -- 1905-1906 -- 1907 [24] Retreat of 1907, in the House of the Holy Family at Martinengo, 1-7 September -- 1908 [25] Retreat of 25-31 October, at Martinengo with the Bishop -- 1909 [26] & -- #134 -- During the retreat made at Martinengo with the Bishop, from 19-25 September, 1909 -- 1910 [27] & -- #134 -- During the retreat made at Martinengo with the Bishop, from 2-8 October, 1910 -- 1911 [28] & -- #134 -- Retreat made at Martinengo with the Bishop, 1-7 October, 1911 -- 1912 [29] During the retreat made at Martinengo with the Bishop, from 13-19 October, 1912 -- 1913 [30] & -- #134 -- During the retreat made at Martinengo with the Bishop, from 19-25 October, 1913 -- 1914 [31] After ten years of priesthood: 1904-10 August, 1914 -- [32] Retreat, 27 September-3 October, 1914, with the Priests of the Sacred Heart -- 1915-1918: The War -- 1915 [33] 23 May, 1915 -- 1918-1920: Spiritual Director of the Seminary at Bergamo -- 1919 [34] Retreat after the war, in the house of the Priests of the Sacred Heart, 28 April-3 May, 1919. 1921-1924: Rome, in the Service at Propaganda Fide -- 1924 [35] Retreat, Rome, Villa Carpegna, 13-19 January, 1924 -- 1925: Episcopal Consecration -- 1925 [36] Rome, Villa Carpegna, 13-17 March, 1925. Preparation for my episcopal consecration -- 1925-1934: Papal Representative in Bulgaria -- 1926 [37] Retreat, 27 November-2 December, 1926. Rome, Monastery of St Paul -- 1927 [38] Retreat, 1927. Ljubljana (Slovenia). House of the Jesuit Fathers. 9-13 November -- 1928 [39] Annual retreat at Babek on the Bosporus. Villa of the Lazarist Fathers. 20-24 December, 1928 -- 1930 [40] Retreat, 1930, at Rustchuk, in the house of the Passionist Fathers. 28 April-4 May -- 1931 [41] Short retreat at Bujukada on the Bosporus, at the house of the Conventual Franciscans. 18-21 June, 1931 -- 1933 [42] Retreat in Sofia with the Capuchin Fathers. 4-8 September, 1933 -- 1934 [43] Retreat in 1934 at Rustchuk, with the Passionist Fathers. 27-31 August -- 1935-1944: Papal Representative in Turkey and Greece -- 1935 [44] Spiritual Exercises in Istanbul, 15-22 December, 1935, with my priests -- 1936 [45] Ranica [Bergamo], Villa of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart. 13-16 October, 1936 -- 1937 [46] Retreat with my secular clergy in Istanbul, at the Apostolic Delegation. 12-18 December, 1937 -- 1939 [47] Retreat, 12-18 November, 1939, Istanbul, in the Residence of the Jesuit Fathers of Ayas Pasa, 'Sacred Heart' -- 1940 [48] Retreat, 25 November-1 December, 1940, at Terapia on the Bosporus, the Villa of the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion -- 1942 [49] Retreat with my clergy at the Apostolic Delegation, from the feast of Christ the King to All Saints Day. Istanbul, 25-31 October, 1942 -- 1943-1944 [50] Note -- 1945-1952: Papal Representative in France -- 1945 [51] Retreat at Solesmes during Holy Week, from 26 March-2 April, 1945. 1947 [52] Retreat, 8-13 December, 1947. Paris, Clamart, at Villa Manresa, the House of the Jesuit Fathers -- 1948 [53] Annual retreat, 23-27 November, 1948. Benedictine monastery of the Sacred Heart at En Calcat [Dourgne] -- 1950 [54] Spiritual notes written during my brief retreat at Oran (Algeria), 6-9 April, 1950, Thursday, Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Day -- 1952 [55] Retreat at Montmartre. with the Carmelite nuns. Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Holy Week, 10-12 April, 1952 -- 1953-1958: Cardinal Patriarch of Venice -- 1953 [56] Retreat with the Bishops of the Province of the Three Venetias, at Fietta, in the Villa of the Venetian Seminary, 15-21 May, 1953. Preacher, Father Federico da Baselga, Capuchin -- 1954 [57] Retreat at Torreglia in 1954, 6-12 June. Preacher, Mgr Landucci -- 1955 [58] Retreat with the episcopate of the Three Venetias, Villa Immacolata of Torreglia (Padua), from 20-25 May, 1955. Preacher, Father Riccardo Lombardi, S.J. -- 1956 [59] Retreat in the seminary at S. Maria della Salute (Venice), 11-15 June, 1956 -- 1957 [60] Retreat with the episcopate of the Province of the Three Venetias, 2-7 June, 1957, at Torreglia. Preacher, Mgr van Lierde, Sacristan to His Holiness -- 1958 [61] Retreat at [Col Draga di] Possagno, House of the Sacred Heart, with the Cavanis Fathers, 22-26 September, 1958. The preacher, invited by me, was Mgr Aurelio Signora, Archbishop, Prelate of Pompei -- 1958-1963: Pope -- 1958 [62] Retreat at the Vatican for Advent, 30 November-6 December, 1958. Preacher, Father Messori Roncaglia, S.J. -- 1959 [63] Retreat in the Vatican, 29 November-5 December, 1959. Preacher, at my invitation, Mgr Giuseppe Angrisani, Bishop of Casale, who made an edifying impression on all -- 1960 [64] Retreat in the Vatican, from 27 November-3 December, 1960. Preacher, Mgr Pirro Scavizzi, Imperiari missionary. 1961 [65] My retreat in preparation for the completion of the eightieth year of my life. Castel Gandolfo, 10-15 August, 1961 -- [66] Retreat in the Vatican, 26 November-2 December, 1961. Preacher, Father Ilarino da Milano, Capuchin -- 1962 [67] July and August, 1962 -- [68] The Pope's private retreat for the week 8-16 September -- [69] Beginning of my private retreat before the Council, in the Torre San Giovanni -- [70] Summary of great graces bestowed on a man who thinks poorly of himself -- II-FOUR LETTERS 1901-1961 -- 1901 [71] Letter to his parents -- [72-73] To the Rector of the Roman Seminary -- 1961 [74] Spiritual testament 'to the Roncalli family' -- III-SPIRITUAL TESTAMENT -- 1954 [75] Spiritual testament and my final dispositions -- [76] My final dispositions -- [77] [From the will drawn up between 1939 and 1944] -- IV-THE HOLY ROSARY -- 1960 [78] Apostolic Letter of H.H. John XXIII to the Bishops and faithful of the whole Catholic world -- [79] A brief sequence of devout considerations arranged for each decade of the rosary -- V-SOME PRAYERS -- 1929 [80] To the Child Jesus -- 1940 [81] For the safety of the city of Istanbul -- 1954 [82] O Holy Father Pius X -- [83] To the Madonna del Bosco -- [84] O Mary, Queen of the Lebanon -- 1955 [85] Mary, Fountain of Mercy and Mother of Joy -- 1956 [86] To Our Lady of Fatima -- [87] The Glory of Mary -- 1958 [88] To the Virgin of Lourdes -- 1959 [89] Prayer for the Diocesan Synod of Rome -- [90] To the Immaculate Virgin of Lourdes -- [91] Prayer for the Second Ecumenical Vatican Council -- 1960 [92] To St Joseph the Worker -- [93] Prayer for the Bishops -- [94] O sweet Child of Bethlehem -- 1961 [95] To the Child Jesus -- [96] Seminarists' prayer to the Madonna della Fiducia -- [97] To Mary, Queen of the World -- [98] Prayer for the students of the college of Propaganda Fide. 1962 [99] Prayer for the daily offering of the Breviary for the success of the Council.