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MORTIFICATION

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 If any ‘Nulla dies sine cruce!’ A fourfold profit Denying material food, Do you not know Every sin Seek only To suppose which nourishes No day without its flows from fasting— that fasting is committed either that he man would cross; not a single our body, nurtures an to gather would admit (1) The mortification against God, come day in which we interior disposition to can master and this is prevented to his close of vices. flowers, are not to shoulder listen to Christ and be , by prayer, friendship after me, fed by His saving word. the flowers of the cross of (2) An elevation lift up the soul, or against our pleasure- let him … This way is not a of the mind Through fasting sacrifice, and loving and praying, confirm it in the neighbor, and this deny sorrowful one, towards God. is remedied offer them to people because Christ himself we allow Him to come paths of virtue, who want himself, (3) The acquisition and satisfy the deepest by almsdeeds, comes to our aid, and prepare a fine the good Lord to be free of virtue. hunger that we or against ourselves, take up his and in his company from all experience in the depths reward for the and this is forestalled for his (4) The reward of trials is cross and there is no room of our being: the hunger Christian? by fasting. pleasure. for sadness. eternal blessedness. and thirst for God. ridiculous. follow me. St. Hedwig of Silesia St. St. Josemaria Benedict XVI St. Therese of Lisieux St. Teresa of Avila Matthew 16:24 St. Thomas Aquinas

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 It is your Miss no single When it Our whole being, We put Not the intellect, body and soul, Haven't you In the old Law, self- opportunity ourselves that leads is all must participate actively gone against but God; God would accept no of making some over, in this religious act to all not the will, but God; you to hate small sacrifice, whereby the creature your own victim as a holocaust you will recognizes divine sorts of not the soul, but God; and avoid here by a smiling preference, your inconveniences if it had not been anything not holiness and majesty. not taste, but God; look, there by a The necessity of whims, to satisfy not touch, but God; flayed; in like manner, that might kindly word; regret mortification of the flesh stands clearly revealed if sometime, in our guilty not the heart, but God; our hearts can cause pain or always doing having we consider the fragility something? You passions not the body, but God; never be immolated mortification the smallest suffered; of our nature, in which, but when it thing right , rather since 's sin, flesh must realize that not food and drink, and sacrificed to God to your spirit and spirit have is a question and doing it all but God; or your flesh you will contrasting desires. the One who of overcoming until they shall for love. . . This exercise of bodily not clothing, but God; and makes regret asks you is them we have been stripped Believe me, the mortification – not repose in bed, you love having far removed from any nailed to a cross, will not writing of pious but God; of the old skin and seek out suffered form of stoicism does not lift a finger. books, the imply a condemnation suffering in all not riches, but God; of their habits, everything so little of the flesh … It is just this composing of the his senses and not distinctions, inclinations, that may and On the contrary, penny's worth sublimest poetry; mortification aims at faculties, with a but God; give them of suffering repugnances, all that does not suffered the liberation of man, God in all pleasure and who often finds himself, of thorns that nobody and superfluous equal the that and always. contentment. because of on his head … wants to smallest act little so concupiscence, almost affections. of self-denial. chained by his own for you. spend. St. Vincent Pallotti badly. St. St. St. Therese of Lisieux senses. St. Josemaria Escriva St. Leonard Bl. Sebastian Valfre Pope Paul VI 17 18 19 For 20 21 22 23 24 Be not The soul The more Without We do not Cleanse become perfection curious we indulge mortification perfect does not about should ourselves by the Feed your vessel, in soft there multiplication consist in matters treat the of that living and exercises, macerating that do not prayer is penances body as pamper our and or killing concern you may bodies, no austerities, thee; never its child, but rather the body, the more happiness by the speak of on receive rebellious purity but in killing correcting on of love our perverse them and they will with which without fastings. grace more become we do self-will. do not ask earth. them. against about them. hurting it. abundantly. St. Josemaria Escriva St. Frances de Sales the spirit. St. St. Teresa of Avila St. Francis de Sales St. St. Rita

25 26 27 28 29 30 31 The I shall remind myself Let the If the word A For Holy If the love of the labors He undertook of love is whoever perfection of a crucifix of God is detached seeks God in preaching, of his Christian be not Mary, often on in your heart, man whilst weariness while traveling, your lips, You will wanting consists in of the temptations He only in Refuge to hold should mortifying suffered while fasting, of his without understand on to his my eyes vigils while praying, and of being that to suffer always be own likes himself for the and on of and the tears he shed out of for God is a love of Christ. backed looking to dislikes, compassion. I will my joy to which Sinners, by little see what may seek Where there remember, moreover, his breast, all earthly him day is no great sorrows, and the insults, Pray sacrifices, pleasures he can do and night, but but will mortification, spittle, blows, ridicule, it becomes are not to rebukes, nails, and all the in my without. never there is no For tedious. be compared. Blessed find him. rest that rained down great sanctity. heart. St. Josemaria Escriva St. St. Leo the Great upon Him in abundance. Us St. St. St. Bernadette

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