Table of Contents List of Abbreviations .................................................................................... 7 Preface ........................................................................................................... 11 Introduction . ............................................................................................... 15 CHAPTER I: Charity as the Basis and Source of the Spirituality of the Religious Life.............................. 29 1. The Concept of Supernatural Love ............................................ 30 2. Ways of growing in charity........................................................... 48 2.1. Imago Dei est anima tua – purgation. ....................................... 49 2.2. Anima tua resplenduit sicut sol, a Sole increato illuminata – illumination . ............................................................................... 64 2.3. Divine amicitia – unity and friendship with God .................. 81 3. Charity – the essence of the communal life and the organizing principle of a religious community. ....................... 94 CHAPTER II: The Trinitarian Context of Spirituality.............109 1. . God the Father in the spirituality of the religious life .......... 111 2. Sequela Christi ............................................................................. 121 2.1. Ways of presenting Christ ......................................................... 122 2.2. Imitation of and Conforming to Christ .................................. 135 3. The Holy Spirit as the Author of the Religious Life .............. 145 CHAPTER III: The Immaculist Character of Spirituality.......159 1. . Maternal presence of the Immaculate Virgin ........................ 160 2. Imitatio virtutum Beatae Virginis Mariae ............................. 175 3. Spreading devotion to the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary . ............................................ 190
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