A Self Divided
You cannot have peace and hold onto resentment. You cannot live in gratitude and be concerned about what you don’t have.
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Deny Desires
The Lord brings His servants to eternal life by mortification; but the devil leads sinners to everlasting death by pleasure and self-indulgence. Spiritual Readings ( Interior mortification – 2 ) Saint Alphonsus Liguori
Conquer self-love
Conquer self-love and break down your own will…What does it profit us to mortify the exterior senses and to perform exercises of devotion while at the same time we cherish in our hearts rancour, ambition, attachment to self-will and to self-esteem, or any other passion which brings ruin on the soul? Spiritual Readings ( Interior
Forgiveness
It’s for the sake of God‘s grace, our soul, our living, that we let go of our unforgiving. read: Matthew 6:14,15
Submit to God’s Will
“My brothers, count it pure joy when you are involved in any sort of trial.” (James 1:2) Lord Jesus, grant me a deeper understanding to recognize You in every circumstance of my life and to recognize the love You offer me.
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To be Beatitude (i.e. Supremely Happy)
Alphonsus the Great, King of Arragon, and a most wise prince, on being one day asked whom he considered to be the happiest man in the world, replied that it was he who abandons himself to the will of God, and receives all things, prosperous or adverse, as from His hands. Evening Meditations Saint Alphonsus
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The Greatest Gift
The greatest gift we have from God is free will for, without it, there is no love. The greatest gift we can give God is our free will for, submitting to God’s, will is the ultimate act of love. “The perfection of love consists in conforming our will to the will of God.” – St.
True Tolerance
Finally, we begin to see that all people, including ourselves, are to some extent emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong, and then we approach true tolerance and see what real love for our fellows actually means. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 92 And our role is to bear with one another and treat
Progress to Perfection
There is no holiness without renunciation and spiritual battle. Spiritual progress entails the intense self-discipline to subdue sinful desires that gradually lead to living in the peace and joy of the beatitudes. (CCC 2015)
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