On prayer and the contemplative life

by Saint Aquinas Thomas

[75] Rom. viii. 38-39.

[76] De Affectibus.

[77] Of the Divine Names, xii.

[78] Of Virginity, viii.

QUESTION LXXXII

OF DEVOTION

[I. Is Devotion a Special Kind of Act?]
Cardinal Cajetan, On the Meaning of the Term "Devotion"
S. Augustine, Confessions, XIII. viii. 2

[II. Is Devotion an Act of the Virtue of Religion?]

[III. Is Contemplation, that is Meditation, the Cause of Devotion?]
Cardinal Cajetan, On the Causes of Devotion
On the Devotion of Women

[IV. Is Joy an Effect of Devotion?]
Cardinal Cajetan, On Melancholy
S. Augustine, Confessions, II. x.