Saints, the: what it is to be a Saint, 50; they are not gloomy, 64, 65; their knowledge of our needs, 82, 152-157; their prayers for us, 115-118; they feel no grief for us on earth, 155; their wills are perfectly conformed to that of God, 116, 156, 163, 165, 167; the Communion of Saints, 158, 164; we ought to pray to them, 157-161; of devotion to the Saints, 57; to the lesser Saints, 117, 160; they are co-workers with God, 154; in what sense their prayers are always heard, 158, 162-168; their merits, 163, 166; how they pray for us, 163, 167 "Saint of Saints, The," 160 Scripture, prayer for knowledge of Holy, 88 Seneca: on petitions, 74; on idolatry, 46 Sentences, the Book of, 6, 25 Sinners, prayer for: 97; the prayers of sinners, 143-146 Sins of conversation, 110 Socrates on prayer, 84 Solicitude, how far it is forbidden, 90 Sorrow, as an effect of devotion, 62, 64 Speculation, 189 Spirit, the Holy, how He helps us to pray, 85 "Spirit and truth," prayer in, 126, 127 Spiritualism, 3 Stability implied in the notion of sanctity, 49 Strabo, Walafrid, his Gloss, 24 Strictness of life not an end in itself, 257 "Sufficiency of life," prayer for, 89 Suffrages for the Dead, 167, 168 _Summa Theologica_: the broad divisions of, 19, 20; the method employed in, 21, 22; the _Tertia Pars_, 13 Superiors and Contemplation, 238 Supererogation, works of, 44 Superstition, 42 Supersubstantial Bread, 103 Supplications as a part of prayer, 146 Swearing, Origen on, 148 Teaching: in what it consists, 227, 228; due to Contemplation, 227; how far it belongs to the Active Life, 226-229; the beauty of the teaching life, 227; how the Angels teach, 231 Temperance: a necessity for the Contemplative Life, 184, 185; how far it is identical with sanctity, 50 Temporal things: the part they play in our life, 89; they are "stepping-stones" to Heaven, 91; how far they may be asked for, 89-95 Thanksgivings as part of prayer, 147 Theological Virtues, the, 39-41, 191, 192 _Theosebeia_, 31