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TURQUOISE
PIETY - FERVOR IN GOD'S SERVICE -
PROSPERITY
Moh: AU in Cod; all with God; all for God/
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OF ASBISI.
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H two wings a man is lifted up above earthly
saysThomas 2 Kempis; "that is, with
simplicity and purity. Simplicity must be in the intention,
purity in tfre afTecti6n. Simplicity aims at God.
Purity takes hold of Him and tastes Him."
"Religiousness $all keep and justify thy heart; it
shall give joy and gladness" (Ecclus. i. 18).
"Picty is pojtable to aU things" (I'im. iv. 8).
"Tbe just shall flourish like the palm-tree: he shall
grow up like the cedar of Libanus. They that are
planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the
courts of the house of our God" (Ps. xci. 13, 14).
"To be faithful in little things is a great thing," says
St. Augustine; and, "to maintain fervor," says Father
Petit, S. J., "it is a good plan to choose one exercise,
however small, and to perform it every day in the best
manner possible." Let us perform some pious exerase,
Qr say a little prayer, for instance, the Memorwe,
every day, with great fervor, to obtain the grace
of perseverance and a happy death.
"Only serve esus out of love, and while your eyes
are yet unclose4 before the whiteness of death is yet
upon your face, or those around you are sure that that
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