Devotion: defined, 51, 53, 55, 57, 64; is a special act, 51; is due to an act of the will, 53, 57; is an act of the virtue of Religion, 57; is the principal act of the virtue of Religion, 54; involves sacrifice of the heart, 64; it gives a certain measure to human acts, 52; it means promptitude, 53, 55, 56, 57; two causes of it, 57, 62, 63; caused by meditation, 57; especially by meditation on the Sacred Passion, 59, 63; on the goodness of God, 58, 60; on our own defects, 58, 60; obstacles to it, 62; how far it may be hindered by learning, 60; it is productive of sorrow, 62-64; but is not therefore to be confounded with gloominess, 64, 65; it produces joy, 62, 63; devotion to the Saints, 57; the devotion of women, 59, 62; the "devout female sex," 62 Direct movement of the soul, the, 172, 210-213 Discretion, St. Antony on, 254, 257 Distractions, 127. _Cf. s.v._ Prayer, distractions in Divine Office, attention in the recitation of, 128 _Dulia_, 39 Ecstasy, 4; Denis the Areopagite on, 55; that of St. Paul, 199, 200 Ejaculatory prayers, 134, 135 Enemies, prayer for, 99; love of our, 99 Eternity: the "repose" of, 86, 87, 92; the "silence" of, 87 Etymologies, those of St. Thomas and St. Isidore, 24 Eucharist, the Holy: the Accidents of, 9; St. Thomas's reception of It as Viaticum, 15; the "Chief" of the Sacraments, 103; our "Daily Bread," 103, 109; the rhythm, _Adoro Te Devote_, 112 _Eusebeia_, 31 Example, the force of, 222 Exterior religion, 45 External actions, 182, 183 Extraordinary ways of God, the, 3 Faber, Father, 2 Faith, 191, 192 Faith and Vision, 87 Fasting, 63 Fear, 189; the gift of fear, 34; fear of death, 23; of Hell, 36 Female sex, the "devout," 62 "Forgive us our trespasses," 110, 111 Fossa Nuova, 14 Frederic, the Emperor, 8 Friendship, 56 Gifts of God, 92; of the Holy Spirit, 105, 106 Gloom, not a characteristic of the Saints, 64, 65 Gloss, the, on Holy Scripture, 24, 25