Saint Alphonsus tells us a good story: "If a traveller, on his
journey to his own country; were to stop and spend his all in
building a palace in a land through which he ought only to pass,
and neglect to provide a dwelling for himself in that country in
which her was to reside his whole life, he would be thought mad.
And must not the Christian be deemed mad who think only of
gratifying himself in this world, through which, he has only to
pass during a few days, and heeds not the danger of being miserable
in the next, where he must live forever, as long as God shall be
God?" This holy saint tells us: "An act of contrition and of love
makes us friends of God." He then warns: "St. Teresa said that all
sins had their origin in a want of faith." Let us consider this
well and then heed his advice: "Therefore, in order to overcome our
passions and temptations, we ought constantly to revivie our faith
by saying: I believe the life everlasting. I believe that after
this life, which will soon be ended, there is an eternal life,
either full of joys, or full of pains, which will befall me,
accotding to my merits or demerits." Let us consider these six
rules to become a saint and we are all called to become saints:
"If, then, we truly desire to become saints, let us resolve: "1. To
avoid every venial sin, however slight. 2." To detach ourselves
from every earthly desire. "3. Let us not cease OUI- accustomed.
exercises of prayer and mortification, however great may be the
weariness and dryness we feel in them. "4. Let us meditate daily on
the Passion of Jesus Christ, which inflames with divine love every
heart that meditates upon it. "5. Let us resign ourselves in peace
to the will of God in all things that trouble us, as Father
Balthazar Alvarez said, "He that in troubles resigns himself to the
divine will, runs to God as swift as by a post." "6. Let us
continually beg of God the gift of his holy love."
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