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Ptqws d Ifdy Mass 253
Thy sufferings for those who persecute and dict
Thee.
Haw unlike I am! to Thee, my divine Model l
Wow great is the change that>mtlst be effeeted in
me, if I wish to be Thy true disciple and to bear
a resemblance to Thee ! In all sincerity, however,
I pray: "Jesus,. meek and humble of heart, make
my heart like unto Thine." How different a rule
of life, haw great a reform of conduct is required of
me before I shall be able to say with the Apostle:
"I live, now not I, but Christ livetb in mk." How
unwilling I am to bear the slightest piiin l How I
shrink from the lightest cross! How impatient
I am in sufferings, disappointments, and contra*
dictions! And yet the Holy Spirit tells us, "Jesus
Christ suffered for us, leaving us an example, that
we should fdllow His steps" ; and again, "All that
will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer."
How the apostles, the martyrs, and all the saints
have stlffered! Bnt they entered with firm tread
the grotto of the Agony and stood bravely by the
Cross. They rejoided in Mering and persecution,
because they became thereby more like to Christ;
they bore in mind that great and abundaht merit is
attached to patient endurance of trials; they remembered
that those who suffer with Christ, those
who tread courageously the royal road of th
Cross to Calvary, shal1.1 also ascend with Him
to heaven qnd reign with Him in immortal glory.
Henceforth I shall look upon pains, and sufferings
and hurniliationsl as biussings sent me from
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