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234 The Holy Sauijfice of tRc Mass
affections and such resolutions as are calculated to help
you in overcoming your evil inclinations and in leading
a more perfect life.
"Mental Prayer or Meditation," says St. Francis of
Sales, "is an earnest thought, voluntarily repeated or
entertained in the mind, to excite the will to holy and
salutary affections and resolutions."
Salutary acts of the will are acts of faith, hope, charity,
humility, contrition, praise,, adoration, thanksgiving,
reparation, oblation, and petltlon.
When you intend to receive holy communion, the whole
time of &lass may be enlployed most profitably in making
such acts, with or without the use of a prayer-book.
Many acts and prayers contained elsewhere in this book
may be substituted occasionally for those given in the
following methods of assisting at Mass, especially such as
relate to the Passion, the Blessed Sacrament, and the Sacred
Heart of Jesus.
You may also very appropriately recite the Rosary
during Mass, and in particular the Ezukuristu Rosary, in
which we meditate on the life, passion, and death of
Our Lord in connection with the sacred mysteries of the
altar. Formulate your own prayers occasionally.
Converse with God in a familiar manner. Prayer is
the elevation of the soul to God. Speak to your heavenly
Father from your heart with filial piety, simplicity, and
confidence.
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