26. At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined. 24. See more ideas about Catholic saints, St philip neri, Saints. Without prayer a man will not persevere long in spirituality; we must have recourse to this most powerful means of salvation every day.

Devotion to the Blessed Virgin is actually necessary, because there is no better means of obtaining God’s graces than through His most holy mother. 14. He who cannot put up with the loss of his honour, can never make any advance in spiritual things. Let us be humble and keep ourselves down:- Obedience! 29.

Before communion, we ought to exercise ourselves in many acts of virtue. The sweetness which some experience in prayer, is milk which our Lord gives as a relish to those who are just beginning to serve Him. Let a man who desires the first place take the last. In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens, that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but he multiplies his sins and his ingratitude. Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity. 24. The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love. When vain-glory is companion, it does not take away our merit; but perfection requires that it should be servant. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree....
30. Let a man always think that he has God before his eyes. 21. We must seek Christ where Christ is not, that is, in crosses and tribulations, in which truly He is not now, but we shall find Him in glory by this road. 20. 5. When a man has fallen he ought to acknowledge it in some such way as this: “Ah, if I had been humble I should not have fallen!” 20. 30. 5. As soon as a man feels that he is tempted, he should fly to God, and devoutly utter that ejaculation which the fathers of the desert so much esteemed: Deus in adjutorium meum intende; Domine ad adjuvandum me festina: or that verse, cor mundum crea in me Deus. He who desires ecstasies and visions does not know what he is desiring. In temptation we ought not to say, “I will do,” “I will say,” for it is a species of presumption and self-confidence; we ought rather to say with humility, “I know what I ought to do, but I do not know what I shall do.” 3. There are exterior friezes depicting the Last Supper and of Our Lady and the Child Jesus inscribed with the two titles given to Our Lady at the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD, i.e. To mortify one passion, no matter how small, is a greater help in the spiritual life than many abstinences, fasts, and disciplines. 24.

By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. 28. When a person who has been living a spiritual life for a long time falls into a serious fault, there is no better way of raising him up again than by exhorting him to manifest his fall to any pious friend with whom he has a particular intimacy: and God will reconduct him to his first estate for the sake of his humility. 2. 11. In order to begin well, and to finish better, it is quite necessary to hear mass every day, unless there be some lawful hindrance in the way. He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms. 23. We should be less alarmed for one who is tempted in the flesh, and who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid the occasions. And then?” With what political doctrine is Karl Marx most closely associated?

He who adopts this plan will get great fruit with little pains. He who does not think on the benefits he receives from God in this life, and on those greater ones his mercy has prepared in that other life of bliss, does not nourish love to God, but chills and freezes it. 14. It is not enough to see that God wishes the good we aim at, but that He wishes it through our instrumentality, in our manner and in our time; and we come to discern all this by true obedience.