TABLE OF CONTENTS

[PREFACE ]
[ENCYCLICAL LETTER OF LEO XIII, 9TH MAY, 1897 ]
[GOD'S PRESENCE ]
[DEGREES OF GOD'S PRESENCE ]
[GOD'S SPECIAL PRESENCE IN THE JUST ]
[NATURE OF THIS PRESENCE ]
[MODE OF THIS PRESENCE, KNOWLEDGE ]
[MODE OF THIS PRESENCE, LOVE ]
[THIS PRESENCE IS OF THE SAME NATURE AS THAT IN HEAVEN ]
[THIS PRESENCE COMMON TO THE WHOLE TRINITY ]
[THIS PRESENCE HAS CERTAIN EFFECTS ]
[FORGIVENESS OF SIN ]
[JUSTIFICATION ]
[DEIFICATION ]
[ADOPTED SONSHIP ]
[HEIRS OF GOD ]
[GUIDANCE IN SPIRITUAL LIFE ]
[GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT ]
[BEATITUDES ]
[FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT ]
[KNOWLEDGE ]
[UNDERSTANDING ]
[WISDOM ]
[COUNSEL ]
[FORTITUDE ]
[PIETY ]
[FEAR OF THE LORD ]
[GRACE]

THE ABIDING PRESENCE
OF THE HOLY GHOST
IN THE SOUL

[ENCYCLICAL] LETTER FOR PENTECOST, 1897 [1]

TO OUR VENERABLE BRETHREN,
THE PATRIARCHS, PRIMATES, ARCHBISHOPS,
BISHOPS, AND OTHER LOCAL ORDINARIES
HAVING PEACE AND COMMUNION WITH THE
HOLY SEE