- 1Author’s Preface
- 2Chapter I — Childhood
- 3Chapter II — Youth
- 4Chapter III — The Turning-Point
- 5Chapter IV — Led by the Spirit
- 6Chapter V — At Brook Farm
- 7Chapter VI — Inner Life While at Brook Farm
- 8Chapter VII — Struggles
- 9Chapter VIII — Fruitlands
- 10Chapter IX — Self-Questionings
- 11Chapter X — At Home Again
- 12Chapter XI — Studying and Waiting
- 13Chapter XII — The Mystic and the Philosopher
- 14Chapter XIII — His Search Among the Sects
- 15Chapter XIV — His Life at Concord
- 16Chapter XV — At the Door of the Church
- 17Chapter XVI — At the Door of the Church — Continued
- 18Chapter XVII — Across the Threshold
- 19Chapter XVIII — New Influences
- 20Chapter XIX — Yearnings After Contemplation
- 21Chapter XX — From New York to St. Trond
- 22Chapter XXI — Brother Hecker
- 23Chapter XXII — How Brother Hecker Made His Studies and Was Ordained…
- 24Chapter XXIII — A Redemptorist Missionary
- 25Chapter XXIV — Separation From the Redemptorists
- 26Chapter XXV — Beginnings of the Paulist Community
- 27Chapter XXVI — Father Hecker’s Idea of a Religious Community
- 28Chapter XXVII — Father Hecker’s Spiritual Doctrine
- 29Chapter XXVIII — The Paulist Parish and Missions
- 30Chapter XXIX — Father Hecker’s Lectures
- 31Chapter XXX — The Apostolate of the Press
- 32Chapter XXXI — The Vatican Council
- 33Chapter XXXII — The Long Illness
- 34Chapter XXXIII — “The Exposition of the Church”
- 35Chapter XXXIV — In the Shadow of Death
- 36Chapter XXXV — Conclusion
- 37Appendix
- 38Recollections of Father Hecker by the Abbé Xavier Dufresne, of Geneva
The Life of Father Hecker
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