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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: VII Bodily austerities should be cautiously laid upon Penitents. i. O OME will say that this rule is contrary to the v5 spirit of penitence, which demands that the body, chief accomplice of all our sins, should suffer for them, as also to the practice of all the saints, who have ever been pitiless in dealing with the flesh. But I would have you note that sometimes there is more real mortification to the penitent's will in forbidding such austerities than in permitting them; and while many saints have been great ascetics, there are also many who have glorified God no less pre-eminently without special asceticism. Not that you should for a moment join with those who say that spiritual mortification is all we need; this is a mere delusion of self-indulgence. But, on the other hand, it seems an error to look upon bodily inflictions as all-important, and make them an essential feature in direction. There is a middle course, which loolcs more to the working of God's grace in the penitent than to the mere guidance of a director. Here let us remark that there arer three classes of persons who are predisposed to bodily mortification: ? First, those who have sinned grievously, and who are kindled with a pious severity towards themselves by the recollection of past sin. But this is not common amongpure souls whose past lives have nothing to excite so intense a hatred towards their innocent bodies. Secondly, people of an eager, excitable temperament, who are easily stirred to self-sacrifice; and among these mortifications are often prompted rather by nature than grace, because they gratify self-will and pride. Thirdly, persons who plunge into corporal austerities from a desire to imitate what they hear or read of the saints; but these too, are in error, for surely it do...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217321563
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 80
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217321569
  • Publisher Date: 11 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 159 gr


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