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...······.Pope Pius XIISecular Institutes ..........Francis N.KorthIntellectual Obedience....·..Augustine G.Ellard  \nBook Reviews  \nQuestions and Answers  \nFor Your Information  \nCommunications  \nREVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS  \n\n| VOLUME XIV   | SEPTEMBER,1955   | NUMBER 5   |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\nCONTENTS  \nEXTERNAL GRACE IN THE SPIRITUALITY OF PERE CAUSSADE—John A.Hardon,S.J.......  .225  \nSOME RECENT PAMPHLETS...  .  ..  .  ..    .  .  .234EFFECTIVE GOVERNING—Claude Aquaviva,S.J........235FOR YOUR INFORMATION .  .  .  .  .  ..  .  .  .  .  ..  .240MOTHER MARY XAVIER WARDE—Sister Mary Julian Baird,R.S.M.241TO TEACHING SISTERS—Pope Pius XII..    .    .....251THE DEDICATED LIFE AND SECULAR INSTITUTES一Francis N.Korth,S.J..  ......257  \nA RATIONAL APPROACH TO INTELLECTUAL OBEDIENCE—Augustine G.Ellard,S.J.......261  \nCOMMUNICATIONS(on “praying reasonably,”and on retreats)...266OUR CONTRIBUTORS...  ....  ..  .  .  .  .  .266BOOK REVIEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS—  \nEditor:Bernard A.Hausmann,S.J.West Baden CollegeWest Baden Springs,Indiana ...........267  \nQUESTIONS AND ANSWERS—  \n22.Introducing a Thirty-Day Retreat ..........278  \n23.Introducing Perpetual Adoration ...........278  \n24.New Devotions at Mother House .  ....  .....279  \n25.Introducing Lay Retreats at Mother House .......279  \n26.Annual Retreat outside Houses of Institute  .......279  \n27.Rank of Lay Sister when Grade is Abolished......  280  \n28.Extended Vacations for Favored Group.  ·  .  ·     ·  .  .280  \nREVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS,September,1955.Vol.XIV,No.5.Published bi-monthly:January,March,May,July,September,and November at the CollegePress,606 Harrison Street,Topeka,Kansas,by St.Mary's College,St.Marys,Kansas,with ecclesiastical approbation.Entered as second class matter January 15,1942,at the Post Ofice,Topeka,Kansas,under the act of March 3,1879.  \nEditorial Board:Augustine G.Ellard,S.J.,Adam C.Ellis,S.J.,Gerald Kelly,S.J.,Francis N.Korth,S.J.Literary Editor:Edwin F.Falteisek,S.J.  \nCopyright,1955,by Adam C.Ellis,S.J.Permission is hereby granted for quota-tions of reasonable length,provided due credit be given this review and the author.Subscription price:3 dollars a year;50 cents a copyPrinted in U.S.A.  \n# External Grace in the Spiritualityof Pere Caussade\n\nJohn A.Hardon,S.J.  \nERE CAUSSADE is unique among ascetical writers in moderntimes.The one book on which his reputation rests,L'Aban-don a la Providence Divine,was not published by him butedited a hundred years after his death,by Father Ramiere,the apostleof the Sacred Heart in France.It was not even a book in the ac-cepted sense but a collection of 132 letters of spiritual direction,which he wrote to the Religious of the Visitation at Nancy,wherehe had charge of the local retreat house.Yet this posthumous workhas enjoyed a diffusion perhaps unequalled in its class during thepast century.As of 1928,it had gone through twenty-one editionsin French and had been translated into a dozen languages.In thenew Enciclopedia Cattolica,published under Vatican auspices,theauthor is described as \"the classic teacher of resignation to the willof God.\"  \nThe full title of the original edition,Self-Abandonment toDivine Providence,Considered as the Easiest Means of Sanctification,gives us the clue to its wide popularity.In the mind of Caussade,the easiest way to spiritual perfection-—for everyone—is completeresignation to the supernatural providence of God.As such,theidea was nothing new,but Caussade's handling of the subject wasdecidedly new.He integrated this familiar concept into the bodyof Catholic doctrine on external grace and thereby clarified whatpreviously had been known,but not so pointedly realized.Thefollowing study is intended to synthesize the basic elements ofCaussade's teaching on self-abandonment to divine providence,where the latter is conceived as a veri","cbCaif5BCFdprhYZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaif5BCFdprhYZ","pdf",2268736,"English","# The Meaning of External 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