PUBLISHERS' PREFACE TO THE SECOND REVISED EDITION. CHAPTER 1. THE BEATIFIC VISION. CHAPTER II. THE BEATIFIC VISION. (CONTINUED.) CHAPTER III. THE BEATIFIC VISION. (CONTINUED.) CHAPTER IV. THE BEATIFIC VISION. (CONTINUED.) CHAPTER V. THE BEAUTY AND GLORY OF THE RISEN BODY. CHAPTER VI. THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE RISEN BODY. CHAPTER VII. THE IMPASSIBILITY AND IMMORTALITY OF THE RISEN BODY. CHAPTER VIII. SEVERAL ERRORS TO BE AVOIDED IN OUR MEDITATIONS ON HEAVEN. CHAPTER IX. THE LIFE OF THE BLESSED IN HEAVEN. CHAPTER X. PLEASURES OF THE GLORIFIED SENSES. CHAPTER XI. SOCIAL JOYS OF HEAVEN. CHAPTER XII. WILL THE KNOWLEDGE THAT SOME OF OUR OWN ARE LOST, MAR OUR HAPPINESS IN HEAVEN? CHAPTER XIII. THE LIGHT OF GLORY. CHAPTER XIV. DEGREES OF HAPPINESS IN HEAVEN. CHAPTER XV. DEGREES OF ENJOYMENT THROUGH THE GLORIFIED SENSES. CHAPTER XVI. THE GLORY OF JESUS AND MARY. CHAPTER XVII. THE GLORY OF THE MARTYRS. CHAPTER XVIII. THE GLORY OF THE DOCTORS AND CONFESSORS. CHAPTER XIX. THE GLORY OF THE VIRGINS AND RELIGIOUS. CHAPTER XX. THE GLORY OF PENITENTS AND PIOUS PEOPLE. CHAPTER XXI. THE ETERNITY OF HEAVEN'S HAPPINESS. Title: The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus Author: F. J. Boudreaux Language: English E-text prepared by David McClamrock THE HAPPINESS OF HEAVENBy a Father of the Society of Jesus F. J. BOUDREAUX (Requiescat in pace) "Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess the kingdom prepared for you."—Matth. xxv. 34. APPROBATIONS.I, Ferdinand Coosemans, Provincial of the Society of Jesus in Missouri, in virtue of power granted to me by the Very Reverend P. Beck, Superior General of the same Society, hereby permit the publication of a book entitled: "THE HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN, by a Father of the Society of Jesus;" the same having been approved by the censors appointed by me to revise it. St. Louis, Mo., 1 Nov., 1870. F. Coosemans, S.J. Liber supradictus, cum a Censoribus Nostris fuerit jam probatus, imprimatur. + MARTINUS JOANNES, Archiep. Baltimor. Entered, according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by John Baltimore: Published by John Murphy & Co. New York: Catholic |