CONTENTS. BOOK I. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CARE OF THE SICK. Chap. I.— The Sick Directions for the Sick 3 In what manner those in charge of the Sick should act 6 Chap. II.— The Dying 8 Chap. III.— The Last Sacraments 13 Directions for the Communion of the Sick and administration of Extreme Unction 19 Chap. IV.— The Dead : the Body 21 Before the Burial 22 The Burial 23 Chap. V.— The Souls of the Dead 25 How to help them 28 Chap. VI.— The Grave 31 The Happiness of the Body 89 The Happiness of the Soul 48 Farewell— Adieu ! 46 The Hope of meeting again in Heaven 50 Letter of St Jerome 56 Letter of St. Francis de Sales 77 Letter of Fenelon to a Lady 78 Extracts from some of Fenelon's Letters 80 Let us think of Heaven 84 Letter of St. Leger to his mother 97 BOOK II. CONSOLATION. We meet again in Heaven 99 Reflections at a grave 104 Two dwellings where nothing passes away 104 O nothingness of human hopes 105 In its last end my soul shall also leave its miserable body 107 Temporary expiation 108 Piety towards the Dead 109 Means of Relieving the Dead 110 1. Prayer 110 2. Good Works 114 We are too forgetful of the Dead 115 He passed through death, but did not remain there 119 Do yon mourn the seed which you have sown in the ground 122 What ends soon is always short 123 Ah I how happy we shall be if we are altogether in heaven 125 "Be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope" 126 In Heaven we know our own 128 Sorrow and Resignation of a mother who weeps for the death of her child 141 The mystery of sorrow imposed on mothers 143 Faith 147 Hope 156 Charity 163 Consolation in suffering 170 BOOK III. A Votive Mass for the Sick 177 Litany for a Happy Death 182 Prayers for deliverance from sudden death 186 Preparation for death 191 Exhortation said by the Priest before administering the Blessed Eucharist to the Sick 195 Exhortation after Communion 199 „ before Extreme Unction 201 „ after Extreme Unction 204 Questions to excite the Sick to make Acts of the necessary Virtues 207 Short Acts of the most necessary virtues, to be suggested to the Sick 209 Before the Last Benediction 211 Recommendation of a Departing Soul 213 Prayers to be said by the Dying Person 224 Acts of Thanksgiving, Resignation, &c. 228 BOOK IV. Mass for the Dead 283 Dies Iras 236 Various Prayers for the Dead 250 Deprofundis 254 Miserere 256 Prayers from the Office of the Dead 260 Heroic Act of Charity for the Souls in Purgatory 262