Thanks. Perhaps in addition, you might be able to tell me how the Catholics of the day understood the word "watching". Owens speaks of it in context of a spiritual discipline or self-mortification which is to be avoided. I quote from the book:

Even if some are not neglecting the things appointed by God to lead to mortification, they may not be using them in their proper place and order. Praying, fasting, watching, meditation, and the like certainly have their use for the business at hand, but many consider them as the fountain and not the stream from the fountain. These actions are the means only, and subordinate to the Spirit and to faith. Many are satisfied when they fast so much, pray so much, and keep certain hours and times even if the work of mortification is not done..."

Putting this in my own words and boiling it down, this tells me that while these disciplines are fine as the tools they were intended, they have been abused by those who think that the mere doing of them accomplishes mortification, which it doesn't.

"Watching" as you have described it, sounds like a thing every Christian does all the time, so I guess I'm asking, what did it look like for a Catholic to do it, that got Owens riled up?

Stand Fast, Craigellachie!