FOOTNOTE:
[1] Note.—There are times when we get a little tired of Preludes and Points, and feel that a change of method would be a help to our Meditation. St Ignatius knew this, and knew also that to some minds Preludes and Points would be a positive hindrance; and so he has given us, in his book of the Spiritual Exercises, "Three (other) methods of prayer." Our Meditation to-day is according to the Second Method, which "consists in considering the signification of each word of a prayer." (Text of the Exercises.) St Ignatius says that if one or two words give us sufficient matter for thought and spiritual relish and consolation, we are not to be anxious to pass on, even though the whole time of the Meditation be spent on one word, but leave the rest till the next day. So we may take to-day as many words of the Salve Regina as we find spiritual relish for. This method, St Ignatius tells us, may be applied to "any other prayer whatsoever."
Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious spelling and punctuation errors were repaired, but unusual period spellings and grammar uses were retained. Original placed punctuation such as semi-colons outside closing quotation marks; this was retained.
Table of Contents entries do not always agree with chapter headings in the original; these differences were retained.
Gospel references throughout the main text begin with "St" as in "St Luke." In two exceptions—P. 23 and 97—the "St" was missing and has been added by the transcriber for consistency. The preface, by a different author, does not use "St" before gospel references.
A few uses of "God" were left out of small-caps in the original. These were placed in small-caps to agree with majority use.
Three uses of "ch." were changed to match three uses of "chap." for consistency.
P. 53: Transcriber added a paragraph break between "sacrifices." and (1) for consistent treatment of numbered paragraphs.
Blocking of numbered paragraphs on P. 70-71 and 73 is faithful to the original.