My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

;I
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day."
a
GOOD motto is, Altima feto: "I seek the higher
things," or, Ad ustra fer ardua : "Through difficulties
to the stars." St. Teresa was willing to bear any
pain or hardship, for any length of time, for the sake
of one little degree of extra glory in heaven. "For
star differeth from star in glory" (I Cor. xv. 41).
m
60.-$or
bfa @lor)?
T a subject of humiliation it is to think how few
actions we do solely and entirely from the love of
God; with what mixed motives we do even our good
actions! Let us beg for a great purity of heart; then
will come purity of thought, purity of action; then
indeed all things will be done purely for God's glory
and His love. Then shall we be on the road to become
saints.
35
*
EmTAnoNs are overcome by the three words.
Credo / Spero / Amo / I believe, I hope, I Iwe.
-BLESSED ANTONY GBASSI.
EDITATION on the'derings of Our Lord has a
a special power in overcoming temptations against
purity. By the very fact that the vivid scenes of the sufferings
of Christ imprint themselves on our imagination,
the evil thought is immediately expelled. Love for Christ
Private Use Only