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CHAPTER V. Examination of your Condition as regards yourself. 1. HOW do you love yourself? Is it a love which concerns this life chiefly? If…
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CHAPTER XV. An Illustration. LET me illustrate what I have said by an anecdote of Saint Bernard. It is common to most beginners in God’s…
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CHAPTER VI. When Temptation and Delectation are Sin. THAT princess, whom we have already taken as an illustration, was not to blame in the unlawful…
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CHAPTER XL. Counsels to Widows. SAINT PAUL teaches us all in the person of S. Timothy when he says, “Honour widows that are widows indeed.”…
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CHAPTER XXXVIII. Counsels to Married People. MARRIAGE is a great Sacrament both in Jesus Christ and His Church, and one to be honoured to all,…
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CHAPTER XXXI. Of Amusements and Recreations: what are allowable. WE must needs occasionally relax the mind, and the body requires some recreation also. Cassian relates…
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CHAPTER XXVII. Of Unseemly Words, and the Respect due to Others. SAINT JAMES says, “If any man offend not in word, the same is, a…
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CHAPTER XXIII. On The Practice of Bodily Mortification. IT has been said that if one writes a word on an almond, and then replace it…
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The beginnings one can only watch and see. Father Quinn as mentioned in prior posts has a work up in Door County. A couple…
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CHAPTER XIII. How to maintain Purity. BE exceedingly quick in turning aside from the slightest thing leading to impurity, for it is an evil which…