The Soul of the Apostolate

TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART ONE: Active Works and the Interior Life; What They Mean -- 1-1.) God wants good works, and therefore zealous action -- 1-2.) God wills that the life-principle of our works be Christ -- 1-3.) what is interior life -- 1-4.) ignorance and neglect of this interior life -- 1-5.) Is the interior life lazy -- 1-6.) Is the interior life selfish -- 1-7.) No conflict between the interior life and the salvation of souls ---------- PART TWO: Union of the Active Life and the Interior Life -- 2-1.) Priority of the interior life -- 2-2.) Good works an overflow from the interior life -- 2-3.) Active works begin and end in the interior life -- 2-4.) The active and interior lives are interdependent -- 2-5.) Excellence of this union ---------- PART THREE: Danger of the Active Life without Interior Life -- 3-1.) Active works are a means of sanctification to interior souls only -- 3-2.) The active worker without interior life -- 3-3.) Interior life the foundation of sanctity in the active worker ---------- PART FOUR: Action Made Fruitful by the Interior Life -- 4-1.) The interior life is the condition of all fruitfulness in active works ---------- PART FIVE: Principles and Hints for the Interior Life -- 5-1.) To active workers: hints on the interior life -- 5-2.) Mental prayer absolutely necessary -- 5-3.) The liturgical life, a source of interior life, is absolutely necessary to the apostolic worker -- 5-3a.) What is the liturgy -- 5-3b.) What is luturgical life -- 5-3c.) The liturgical spirit; three principles -- 5-3d.) Advantages of the liturgical life -- 5-3e.) Practice of the interior life -- 5-4.) Custody of the heart. The keystone of the interior, hence essential to the apostolate -- 5-4a.) Resolution: purity of intention -- 5-5.) The apostle must have an ardent devotion to Mary ---------- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX: Ten Aids to Mental Prayer