Life of Father Hecker

Life of Father Hecker

Walter Elliott, american Roman Catholic priest and missionary (1842-1928)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- AUTHOR'S PREFACE

-03- INTRODUCTION

-04- CHILDHOOD

-05- YOUTH

-06- THE TURNING POINT

-07- LED BY THE SPIRIT

-08- AT BROOK FARM

-09- INNER LIFE WHILE AT BROOK FARM

-10- STRUGGLES

-11- FRUITLANDS

-12- SELF QUESTIONINGS

-13- AT HOME AGAIN

-14- STUDYING AND WAITING

-15- THE MYSTIC AND THE PHILOSOPHER

-16- HIS SEARCH AMONG THE SECTS

-17- HIS LIFE AT CONCORD

-18- AT THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH

-19- AT THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH CONTINUED

-20- ACROSS THE THRESHOLD

-21- NEW INFLUENCES

-22- YEARNINGS AFTER CONTEMPLATION

-23- FROM NEW YORK TO ST TROND

-24- BROTHER HECKER

-25- HOW BROTHER HECKER MADE HIS STUDIES AND WAS ORDAINED PRIEST

-26- A REDEMPTORIST MISSIONARY

-27- SEPARATION FROM THE REDEMPTORISTS

-28- BEGINNINGS OF THE PAULIST COMMUNITY

-29- FATHER HECKER'S IDEA OF A RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY

-30- FATHER HECKER'S SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE

-31- THE PAULIST PARISH AND MISSIONS

-32- FATHER HECKER'S LECTURES

-33- THE APOSTOLATE OF THE PRESS

-34- THE VATICAN COUNCIL

-35- THE LONG ILLNESS

-36- THE EXPOSITION OF THE CHURCH

-37- IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH

-38- CONCLUSION

-39- APPENDIX

-40- LETTERS FROM CARDINAL NEWMAN

-41- RECOLLECTIONS OF FATHER HECKER BY THE ABBÉ XAVIER DUFRESNE, OF GENEVA