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THE CORONATION 561
661. In order that thou mayest properly renew and
celebrate these benefits
of the Incarnation and Nativity
of my divine Son, thou must try to acquire humility
and purity as of an angel for ; by these virtues thy thanks
giving will be pleasing to the Lord and by them thou
wilt in a measure give some return for his having made
Himself of thy nature. Ponder deeply how heavy are
the sins of men who, while having Christ as their
Brother, fall from such excellence and neglect their
obligations. Consider thyself as a portrait or image of
the Godman, and that any kind of sin is equivalent to thy
despising it and blotting it out of thy soul. This new
dignity to which human nature was raised is much for
gotten by the children of Adam and they refuse to for
sake their old habits and miseries in order to put on
Christ (Rom. 13, 14). But thou, my daughter, forget
the house of thy father and thy people (Ps. 44, 11), and
seek to renew thyself with the beauty of thy Savior, in
order that thou mayest be pleasing in the eyes of the
supreme King.
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