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<p>Mxmsj: </p> <hr /> <div>[[File:Liturgical year.svg|200px]]<br /> <br /> The articles in this section are about the Latin rite in the Roman Catholic Church. Many other Western non-Catholic Christians follow a similar cycle. The liturgical year for the [[Eastern rites]] and the Eastern Orthodox churches are organized around [[Eastern Orthodox|Twelve Great Feasts]], each of which is preceded by a time of fasting.<br /> <br /> * [http://catholic-resources.org/Lectionary/index.html Synopses of lectionary cycles by Felix Just, SJ.]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Liturgy]]<br /> [[Category:Spirituality]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=Category:Liturgical_Year&diff=21633 Category:Liturgical Year 2026-05-25T18:22:58Z

<p>Mxmsj: </p> <hr /> <div>[[File:Liturgical year.svg|200px]]<br /> <br /> The articles in this section are about the Latin rite in the Roman Catholic Church. Many other Western non-Catholic Christians follow a similar cycle. The liturgical year for the [[Eastern rites]] and the Eastern Orthodox churches are organized around [[Eastern Orthodox|Twelve Great Feasts]], each of which is preceded by a time of fasting.<br /> <br /> * [http://catholic-resources.org/Lectionary/index.html Synopses of lectionary cycles.]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Liturgy]]<br /> [[Category:Spirituality]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=Liturgical_Year&diff=21632 Liturgical Year 2026-05-25T18:16:57Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Key dates for 2026 */</p> <hr /> <div>[[File:Liturgical year.svg|thumb|400px]]<br /> ; The birth of the Messiah: 6-7 weeks.<br /> * [[Advent]]: Four Sundays prior to Christmas day. The first Sunday of Advent is the beginning of the Church's new year.<br /> * [[Christmas]]: December 25 to [[Baptism of the Lord]].<br /> ; Following Jesus as a disciple: 30-34 weeks.<br /> * [[Ordinary Time]]: varies.<br /> ; The death and resurrection of Jesus: 14 weeks.<br /> * [[Lent]]: 7 weeks.<br /> * [[Easter]]: 7 weeks.<br /> <br /> The '''Liturgical Year''' also contains [[Holy Days of Obligation]]; the number varies by rite and region.<br /> <br /> == Dynamic Seasons ==<br /> <br /> * The [[Advent]] season leads to Christmas day.<br /> * The [[Christmas]] season ends with the [[Baptism of the Lord]], the beginning of Jesus' public ministry (i.e., the time that He spent in the company of His disciples).<br /> * [[Lent]] leads to Easter Sunday.<br /> * The [[Easter]] season culminates on the day of [[Pentecost]].<br /> * [[Ordinary Time]] ends with the [[Feast of Christ, the King]]. Unlike all of the other feasts of the Church year, the [[Feast of Christ, the King]] is concerned with a future event: [[Apocalypticism| the end of everything.]] I am proposing a seven-week meditation for the end of Ordinary Time, which points toward the end of the universe and the triumph of eternity — [[Pleroma: Contemplating the Glory of Christ the King]].<br /> <br /> Before the development of the Liturgical Year, there were four times of fasting and prayer [[Ember Days|(Ember Days)]] to break the year into four quarters.<br /> <br /> == Key dates for 2026 ==<br /> <br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;Sundays: A — Gospel of Mark<br><br /> Weekdays: II (2026 is an even year)<br /> <br /> :: [https://www.usccb.org/resources/2026cal.pdf USCCB calendar for 2026]<br /> <br /> {| {{Prettytable}}<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"| Friday<br /> |Christmas<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"| January 4 or 6<br /> |Epiphany<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"| January 11<br /> |Baptism of the Lord<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"| January 25 <br /> |[[Sunday of the Word of God]] -- Third Sunday of Ordinary Time<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|February 18<br /> |Ash Wednesday<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|April 5<br /> |Easter<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|May 14<br /> |Ascension Thursday<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|May 24<br /> |Pentecost<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|May 25<br /> |Mary, Mother of the Church<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|May 31<br /> |Trinity Sunday<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|June 7<br /> |Corpus Christi<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|October 11<br /> |[[Pleroma]] <br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|22 Nov<br /> |[[Christ the King]]<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|29 Nov<br /> |First Sunday of Advent<br /> |}<br /> <br /> == Other commemorations ==<br /> <br /> * National Vocation Awareness Week in January<br /> * World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life<br /> * World Marriage Day<br /> * National Marriage Week USA<br /> <br /> * [[Pleroma]]<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> * [[Cycle of readings]]<br /> * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgical_Year#Catholic_Church_liturgical_year "Liturgical year" (Wikipedia).]<br /> [[Category:Liturgical Year]]<br /> * [http://www.fwdioc.org/worship/Documents/liturgical_cal12.pdf United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2012 Liturgical Calendar.]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=Liturgical_Year&diff=21631 Liturgical Year 2026-05-25T18:15:40Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Key dates for 2026 */</p> <hr /> <div>[[File:Liturgical year.svg|thumb|400px]]<br /> ; The birth of the Messiah: 6-7 weeks.<br /> * [[Advent]]: Four Sundays prior to Christmas day. The first Sunday of Advent is the beginning of the Church's new year.<br /> * [[Christmas]]: December 25 to [[Baptism of the Lord]].<br /> ; Following Jesus as a disciple: 30-34 weeks.<br /> * [[Ordinary Time]]: varies.<br /> ; The death and resurrection of Jesus: 14 weeks.<br /> * [[Lent]]: 7 weeks.<br /> * [[Easter]]: 7 weeks.<br /> <br /> The '''Liturgical Year''' also contains [[Holy Days of Obligation]]; the number varies by rite and region.<br /> <br /> == Dynamic Seasons ==<br /> <br /> * The [[Advent]] season leads to Christmas day.<br /> * The [[Christmas]] season ends with the [[Baptism of the Lord]], the beginning of Jesus' public ministry (i.e., the time that He spent in the company of His disciples).<br /> * [[Lent]] leads to Easter Sunday.<br /> * The [[Easter]] season culminates on the day of [[Pentecost]].<br /> * [[Ordinary Time]] ends with the [[Feast of Christ, the King]]. Unlike all of the other feasts of the Church year, the [[Feast of Christ, the King]] is concerned with a future event: [[Apocalypticism| the end of everything.]] I am proposing a seven-week meditation for the end of Ordinary Time, which points toward the end of the universe and the triumph of eternity — [[Pleroma: Contemplating the Glory of Christ the King]].<br /> <br /> Before the development of the Liturgical Year, there were four times of fasting and prayer [[Ember Days|(Ember Days)]] to break the year into four quarters.<br /> <br /> == Key dates for 2026 ==<br /> <br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;Sundays: A — Gospel of Mark<br><br /> Weekdays: II (2026 is an even year)<br /> <br /> :: [https://www.usccb.org/resources/2026cal.pdf USCCB calendar for 2026]<br /> <br /> {| {{Prettytable}}<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"| Friday<br /> |Christmas<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"| January 4 or 6<br /> |Epiphany<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"| January 11<br /> |Baptism of the Lord<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"| January 25 <br /> |[[Sunday of the Word of God]] -- Third Sunday of Ordinary Time<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|February 18<br /> |Ash Wednesday<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|April 5<br /> |Easter<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|May 14<br /> |Ascension Thursday<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|May 24<br /> |Pentecost<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|May 25<br /> |Mary, Mother of the Church<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|June 7<br /> |Corpus Christi<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|October 11<br /> |[[Pleroma]] <br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|22 Nov<br /> |[[Christ the King]]<br /> |-<br /> |align="right"|29 Nov<br /> |First Sunday of Advent<br /> |}<br /> <br /> == Other commemorations ==<br /> <br /> * National Vocation Awareness Week in January<br /> * World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life<br /> * World Marriage Day<br /> * National Marriage Week USA<br /> <br /> * [[Pleroma]]<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> * [[Cycle of readings]]<br /> * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgical_Year#Catholic_Church_liturgical_year "Liturgical year" (Wikipedia).]<br /> [[Category:Liturgical Year]]<br /> * [http://www.fwdioc.org/worship/Documents/liturgical_cal12.pdf United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2012 Liturgical Calendar.]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=Maxims_and_Sayings_of_St._Philip_Neri&diff=21630 Maxims and Sayings of St. Philip Neri 2026-05-18T12:37:55Z

<p>Mxmsj: </p> <hr /> <div>{|<br /> |-<br /> |[[File:Neri.jpg|thumb|229px|left|<div align="center">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Neri St. Philip Neri,] pray for us.<br>[http://www.liturgialatina.org/oratorian/maxims.htm Source of maxims.]]]<br /> |<p id="dateToday"></p><br /> <div id="maximForToday" style="margin-left:4em;margin-right:4em;"></div><br /> <div id="feastToday"></div><br /> |}<br /> <html><br /> <script type="text/javascript"><br /> <br /> var explanation =<br /> "This script is designed to present one maxim from St. Philip Neri (1515-1595) each day. St. Philip was the joyful apostle of Rome and founder of the Oratorian priestly fellowship. St. Philip was told to find his India in Rome; may we find our Rome wherever God has placed us.";<br /> <br /> var d=new Date();<br /> <br /> var month=new Array(12);<br /> month[0]="January";<br /> month[1]="February";<br /> month[2]="March";<br /> month[3]="April";<br /> month[4]="May";<br /> month[5]="June";<br /> month[6]="July";<br /> month[7]="August";<br /> month[8]="September";<br /> month[9]="October";<br /> month[10]="November";<br /> month[11]="December";<br /> <br /> var weekday=new Array(7);<br /> weekday[0]="Sunday";<br /> weekday[1]="Monday";<br /> weekday[2]="Tuesday";<br /> weekday[3]="Wednesday";<br /> weekday[4]="Thursday";<br /> weekday[5]="Friday";<br /> weekday[6]="Saturday";<br /> <br /> var maxim=new Array();<br /> maxim[1]=new Array();<br /> maxim[1][1] = "Well! When shall we have a mind to begin to do good?";<br /> maxim[1][2] = "<i>Nulla dies sine linea: </i>Do not let a day pass without doing some good during it.";<br /> maxim[1][3] = "We must not be behind time in doing good, for death will not be behind his time.";<br /> maxim[1][4] = "Happy is the youth, because he has time before him to do good.";<br /> maxim[1][5] = "It is well to choose some one good devotion, and to stick to it, and never abandon it.";<br /> maxim[1][6] = "He who wishes for anything but Christ does not know what he wishes; he who asks for anything but Christ does not know what he is asking; he who works, but not for Christ, does not know what he is doing.";<br /> maxim[1][7] = "Let no one wear a mask, otherwise he will do ill; and if he has one, let him burn it.";<br /> maxim[1][8] = "Spiritual persons ought to be equally ready to experience sweetness and consolation in the things of God or to suffer and keep their ground during times of dryness of spirit and devotion, for as long as God pleases, without making any complaint about it.";<br /> maxim[1][9] = "God has no need of men.";<br /> maxim[1][10] = "If God be with us, there is no one else left to fear.";<br /> maxim[1][11] = "He who wishes to be perfectly obeyed should give but few orders.";<br /> maxim[1][12] = "A man should focus on what concerns him and not busy himself \"with wonders beyond his understanding\" (<i>in mirabilibus super se</i>).";<br /> maxim[1][13] = "Men should often renew their good resolutions, and not lose heart because they are tempted against them.";<br /> maxim[1][14] = "The name of Jesus, pronounced with reverence and affection, has a kind of power to soften the heart.";<br /> maxim[1][15] = "Obedience is a short cut to perfection.";<br /> maxim[1][16] = "They who really wish to advance in the ways of God must give themselves into the hands of their superiors always and in everything; and they who are not living under obedience must subject themselves of their own accord to a learned and discreet confessor, whom they must obey in the place of God, disclosing to him with perfect freedom and simplicity the affairs of their soul, and they should never come to any resolution without his advice.";<br /> maxim[1][17] = "There is nothing that gives greater security to our actions or more effectually cuts the snares the devil lays for us than to follow another person's will rather than our own in doing good.";<br /> maxim[1][18] = "Before a man chooses his confessor, he ought to think well about it and also pray about it; but when he has once chosen, he ought not to change, except for most urgent reasons, but put the utmost confidence in his director.";<br /> maxim[1][19] = "When the devil has failed in making a man fall, he puts forward all his energies to create distrust between the penitent and the confessor, and so by little and little he gains his end at last.";<br /> maxim[1][20] = "Let persons in the world sanctify themselves in their own houses, for what is done in the royal court, in the professions, or in some kind of ordinary work is no hindrance to the service of God.";<br /> maxim[1][21] = "Obedience is the true holocaust that we offer as a sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.";<br /> maxim[1][22] = "In order to be really obedient, it is not enough to do what obedience commands; we must do it without reasoning upon it.";<br /> maxim[1][23] = "Our Blessed Lady ought to be our love and our consolation.";<br /> maxim[1][24] = "The good works that we do of our own will are not so meritorious as those that are done under obedience.";<br /> maxim[1][25] = "The most beautiful prayer we can make is to say to God, “As Thou knowest and willest, O Lord, so do with me.”";<br /> maxim[1][26] = "When tribulations, infirmities, and contradictions come, we must not run away in a fright, but vanquish them like men.";<br /> maxim[1][27] = "It is not enough to see that God wishes the good we aim at, but that He wishes it through our instrumentality, in our manner, and in our time; and we come to discern all this by true obedience.";<br /> maxim[1][28] = "In order to be perfect, we must not only obey and honor our superiors; we must honor our equals and inferiors also.";<br /> maxim[1][29] = "In dealing with our neighbor, we must assume as much pleasantness of manner as we can, and by this affability win him to the way of virtue.";<br /> maxim[1][30] = "A man who leads a common life under obedience is more to be esteemed than one who does great penance after his own will.";<br /> maxim[1][31] = "To mortify one passion, no matter how small, is a greater help in the spiritual life than many abstinences, fasts, and disciplines.";<br /> <br /> maxim[2]=new Array();<br /> maxim[2][1] = "He who wishes to be wise without the true Wisdom, or saved without the Savior, is not well, but sick — he is not a wise man, but a fool.";<br /> maxim[2][2] = "Devotion to the Blessed Virgin is actually necessary because there is no better means of obtaining God's graces than through His most holy mother.";<br /> maxim[2][3] = "A man should force himself to be obedient, even in little things that appear of no moment, because he will thus render the practice of obedience in great matters easy to himself.";<br /> maxim[2][4] = "He who always acts under obedience may rest assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to God.";<br /> maxim[2][5] = "Perfection does not consist in such outward things as shedding tears and the like, but in true and solid virtues.";<br /> maxim[2][6] = "Tears are no sign that a man is in the grace of God, neither must we infer that one who weeps when he speaks of holy and devout things necessarily leads a holy life.";<br /> maxim[2][7] = "Cheerfulness strengthens the heart and makes us persevere in a good life; wherefore the servant of God ought always to be in good spirits. ";<br /> maxim[2][8] = "When a man is freed from a temptation or any other distress, let him take great care to show fitting gratitude to God for the benefit he has received.";<br /> maxim[2][9] = "We must accept the adversities that God sends us without reasoning too much upon them, and we must take for granted that it is the best thing that could happen to us.";<br /> maxim[2][10] = "We must always remember that God does everything well, although we may not see the reason of what He does.";<br /> maxim[2][11] = "Every one ought to give in readily to the opinion of another, to argue in favor of another and against himself, and to take things in good part.";<br /> maxim[2][12] = "There is nothing more to the purpose for exciting a spirit of prayer than the reading of spiritual books.";<br /> maxim[2][13] = "Let a man frequent the holy Sacraments, go to sermons, and often read the Lives of Saints.";<br /> maxim[2][14] = "Let a man always think that he has God before his eyes.";<br /> maxim[2][15] = "When a man is in an occasion of sin, let him look what he is doing, get himself out of the occasion, and avoid the sin.";<br /> maxim[2][16] = "There is nothing good in this world: <i> Vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas</i> (\"Vanity of vanities; all is vanity\").";<br /> maxim[2][17] = "We must die at last.";<br /> maxim[2][18] = "Beginners in religion ought to exercise themselves principally in meditation on the Four Last Things.";<br /> maxim[2][19] = "He who does not go down into hell while he is alive runs a great risk of going there after he is dead.";<br /> maxim[2][20] = "The greatest help to perseverance in the spiritual life is the habit of prayer, especially under the direction of our confessor.";<br /> maxim[2][21] = "There is nothing the devil fears so much or so much tries to hinder as prayer.";<br /> maxim[2][22] = "An excellent method of preserving ourselves from relapsing into serious faults is to say every evening, “To-morrow I may be dead.”";<br /> maxim[2][23] = "A man without prayer is an animal without the use of reason.";<br /> maxim[2][24] = "The religious state is indeed the highest, but it is not suitable for all.";<br /> maxim[2][25] = "A most excellent means of learning how to pray is to acknowledge ourselves unworthy of such a benefit, and to put ourselves entirely into the hands of the Lord.";<br /> maxim[2][26] = "The true preparation for prayer consists in the exercise of mortification; for he who wishes to give himself up to prayer without mortification is like a bird wishing to fly before it is fledged.";<br /> maxim[2][27] = "We can never arrive at the contemplative life if we do not first exercise ourselves laboriously in the active life.";<br /> maxim[2][28] = "We must exercise the spirit that God gives us in prayer, and follow that; so that, when, for example, it inclines us to meditate on the Passion, we must not wish to meditate on some other mystery.";<br /> maxim[2][29] = "When a person goes to communion, he ought to follow the same spirit he had in prayer, and not be casting about for new meditations.";<br /> <br /> maxim[3]=new Array();<br /> maxim[3][1] = "We must never pray for a favor for anyone, except conditionally, saying, “If it please God,” or the like.";<br /> maxim[3][2] = "When a spiritual person feels a great calmness of mind in asking anything of God, it is a good sign that God either has granted it, or will do so shortly.";<br /> maxim[3][3] = "A man ought never to think he has done any good, or rest contented with any degree of perfection he may have attained, because Christ has given us the type of our perfection in putting before us the perfection of the Eternal Father: 'Be ye perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect.'";<br /> maxim[3][4] = "The sweetness that some experience in prayer is milk that our Lord gives as a relish to those who are just beginning to serve Him.";<br /> maxim[3][5] = "To leave our prayer when we are called to do some act of charity for our neighbor is not really a quitting of prayer, but leaving Christ for Christ, that is, depriving ourselves of spiritual sweetness in order to gain souls.";<br /> maxim[3][6] = "It is good for a soul to go from prayer with an appetite and desire to return to it, rather than satiated and weary.";<br /> maxim[3][7] = "The wisdom of the Scriptures is learned rather by prayer than by study.";<br /> maxim[3][8] = "A diligent charity in ministering to the sick is a shortcut to the acquisition of perfect virtue.";<br /> maxim[3][9] = "Let women remain indoors and look after their families, and not be desirous of going into public.";<br /> maxim[3][10] = "We must pray incessantly for the gift of perseverance.";<br /> maxim[3][11] = "We must not leave off our prayers because of distractions and restlessness of mind, although it seems useless to go on with them. He who perseveres for the whole of his accustomed time, gently recalling his mind to the subject of his prayer, merits greatly.";<br /> maxim[3][12] = "If in times of dryness in prayer we make acts of humility, self-knowledge, protestations of our own inability to help ourselves, and petitions for God's assistance, all this is real and substantial prayer.";<br /> maxim[3][13] = "The best remedy for dryness of spirit is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.";<br /> maxim[3][14] = "We may even ask for a spiritual blessing physically by going first to the church of one Saint and then to the church of another to make our petition.";<br /> maxim[3][15] = "Without prayer a man will not persevere long in spirituality; we must have recourse to this most powerful means of salvation every day.";<br /> maxim[3][16] = "If young men wish to protect themselves from all danger of impurity, let them never retire to their own rooms immediately after dinner, either to read or write, or do anything else; but let them remain in conversation, because at that time the devil is wont to assault us with more than usual vehemence, and this is that demon which is called in Scripture the noonday demon, and from which holy David prayed to be delivered.";<br /> maxim[3][17] = "If young men would preserve their purity, let them avoid bad company.";<br /> maxim[3][18] = "Let them also avoid nourishing their bodies delicately.";<br /> maxim[3][19] = "It is God's custom to interweave human life with troubles and consolations, at least of an interior sort, alternately.";<br /> maxim[3][20] = "Young men should be very careful to avoid idleness.";<br /> maxim[3][21] = "When fathers have given their sons a good education, and set them on the right track, the sons who succeed them and continue to follow the road marked out for them will have the advantage of seeing their family persevere in holy ways and in the fear of God.";<br /> maxim[3][22] = "In order to preserve their purity, young men should frequent the Sacraments, and especially confession.";<br /> maxim[3][23] = "We must never trust ourselves, for it is the devil's way first to get us to feel secure, and then to make us fall.";<br /> maxim[3][24] = "We ought to fear and fly from temptations of the flesh, even in sickness and in old age itself — indeed, just as long as we can still open and shut our eyelids — for the spirit of lust gives no truce either to place, time, or person.";<br /> maxim[3][25] = "Our sweet Christ, the Word Incarnate, has given Himself to us in order to supply us with all we need, even giving Himself to us through His hard and ignominious death upon the cross.";<br /> maxim[3][26] = "One of the most efficacious means of keeping ourselves chaste is to have compassion for those who fall through their frailty, and never to boast in the least of being free, but with all humility to acknowledge that whatever we have is from the mercy of God.";<br /> maxim[3][27] = "To be without pity for other men's falls is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.";<br /> maxim[3][28] = "In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than the not fearing the danger: when a man does not distrust himself, and is without fear, it is all over with him.";<br /> maxim[3][29] = "The devil generally makes use of the weaker sex when he wishes to cause us to fall.";<br /> maxim[3][30] = "In order to begin well and to finish better, it is quite necessary to hear mass every day, unless there be some lawful hindrance in the way.";<br /> maxim[3][31] = "A most excellent means of keeping ourselves pure is to lay open all our thoughts as soon as possible to our confessor, with the greatest sincerity, and to keep nothing hidden in ourselves.";<br /> <br /> maxim[4]=new Array();<br /> maxim[4][1] = "To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.";<br /> maxim[4][2] = "Let a man who desires the first place take the last.";<br /> maxim[4][3] = 'As soon as a man feels that he is tempted, he should fly to God, and devoutly utter that petition which the fathers of the desert so much esteemed: <i>Deus in adjutorium meum intende; Domine ad adjuvandum me festina</i>, or that verse, <i>cor mundum crea in me Deus</i>.<p><ul style="float:right;margin-right:8em"><li>"God, come to my assistance; Lord, make haste to help me."</li><li>"A clean heart create for me, O God."</li></ul></div>';<br /> maxim[4][4] = "When sensual thoughts come into the mind, we ought immediately to make use of our minds and fix them instantaneously upon something or other, no matter what.";<br /> maxim[4][5] = "Never say, “What great things the Saints do,” but, “What great things God does in His Saints.”";<br /> maxim[4][6] = "In the warfare of the flesh, only cowards gain the victory; that is to say, those who run away from temptation.";<br /> maxim[4][7] = "We should be less alarmed for one who is tempted in the flesh, but who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid the occasions.";<br /> maxim[4][8] = "When a person puts himself in an occasion of sin, saying, “I shall not fall, I shall not commit this sin,” it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with all the greater damage to his soul.";<br /> maxim[4][9] = "It is a most useful thing to say often, and from the heart, “Lord, do not put any confidence in me, for I am sure to fall if You do not help me;” or, “O my Lord, look for nothing but evil from me.”";<br /> maxim[4][10] = "In temptation we ought not to say, “I will do,” “I will say,” for it is a species of presumption and self-confidence; we ought rather to say with humility, “I know what I should do, but I don't know what I will do.”";<br /> maxim[4][11] = "The stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great that no stench in the world can equal it.";<br /> maxim[4][12] = "We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybody's prayers.";<br /> maxim[4][13] = "We must avoid lies as we would a pestilence.";<br /> maxim[4][14] = "When we go to confession, we should accuse ourselves of our worst sins first, and of those things which we are most ashamed of, because by this means we put the devil to greater confusion and reap more fruit from our confession.";<br /> maxim[4][15] = "One of the very best means of obtaining humility is sincere and frequent confession.";<br /> maxim[4][16] = "In trying to get rid of bad habits, it is of the greatest importance not to put off going to confession after a fall, and also to keep to the same confessor.";<br /> maxim[4][17] = "In visiting the dying we should not say many words to them, but rather help them by praying for them.";<br /> maxim[4][18] = "A sick man should make God a present of his will; and if it turns out that he has to suffer for a long time, he must submit to the Divine Will.";<br /> maxim[4][19] = "The sick man must not fear when he is tempted to lose confidence; for if he has sinned, Christ has suffered and paid for him.";<br /> maxim[4][20] = "Let the sick man enter into the side of Jesus and His most holy wounds; let him not be afraid, but fight manfully, and he will come forth victorious.";<br /> maxim[4][21] = "The true way to advance in holy virtues is to persevere in holy cheerfulness.";<br /> maxim[4][22] = "The cheerful are much easier to guide in the spiritual life than the melancholy.";<br /> maxim[4][23] = "Those who wish to enter upon the religious life should first of all mortify themselves for a long time, and particularly mortify their will in things to which they have the greatest repugnance.";<br /> maxim[4][24] = "Excessive sadness seldom springs from any other source than pride.";<br /> maxim[4][25] = "Charity and cheerfulness, or charity and humility, should be our motto.";<br /> maxim[4][26] = "It is very necessary to be cheerful, but we must not on that account give in to a buffooning spirit.";<br /> maxim[4][27] = "Buffoonery incapacitates a person from receiving any additional spirituality from God.";<br /> maxim[4][28] = "Nay more, bufoonery roots up the little a man may have already acquired.";<br /> maxim[4][29] = "At table, especially where there are guests, we ought to eat every kind of food, and not say, “I like this,” and “I do not like that.”";<br /> maxim[4][30] = "Human language cannot express the beauty of a soul that dies in a state of grace.";<br /> <br /> maxim[5]=new Array();<br /> maxim[5][1] = "If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a crucifix, and think that Christ has shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave his enemies, but prayed the Eternal Father to forgive them also.";<br /> maxim[5][2] = "Let him remember also that when he says the Our Father every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is calling down vengeance upon them.";<br /> maxim[5][3] = "Men are generally the carpenters of their own crosses.";<br /> maxim[5][4] = "Let us concentrate ourselves so completely in the divine love and enter so far into the living fountain of wisdom through the wounded Side of our Incarnate God that we may deny ourselves and our self-love, and so be unable to find our way out of that Wound again.";<br /> maxim[5][5] = "We must not give up praying and asking because we do not get what we ask all at once.";<br /> maxim[5][6] = "He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer should often lift up his mind to God in brief prayers.";<br /> maxim[5][7] = "We must often remember what Christ said, that not he who begins, but he that perseveres to the end shall be saved.";<br /> maxim[5][8] = "We ought to abhor every kind of affectation, whether in talking, dressing, or anything else.";<br /> maxim[5][9] = "When a scrupulous person has once made up his mind that he has not consented to a temptation, he must not reason the matter over again to see whether he has really consented or not, for the same temptations often return by making this sort of reflection.";<br /> maxim[5][10] = "If those who are molested by scruples wish to know whether they have consented to a suggestion or not, especially in thoughts, they should see whether, during the temptation, they have always had a lively love to the virtue opposed to the vice in respect of which they were tempted, and hatred to that same vice, and this is mostly a good proof that they have not consented.";<br /> maxim[5][11] = "The scrupulous should submit to the judgment of their confessor always and in everything, and develop a contempt for their own scruples.";<br /> maxim[5][12] = "Scruples are an infirmity that will make a truce with a man, but very rarely peace; humility alone achieves victory over them.";<br /> maxim[5][13] = "Even in bodily indispositions, spiritual remedies are the most helpful.";<br /> maxim[5][14] = "As much love as we give to creatures, just so much we steal from the Creator.";<br /> maxim[5][15] = "Penitents ought never to force their confessor to give them permission to do anything against his inclination.";<br /> maxim[5][16] = "He who has the slightest taint of avarice about him will never make the least advance in virtue.";<br /> maxim[5][17] = "Avarice is the pest of the soul.";<br /> maxim[5][18] = "Experience shows that men given to carnal sins are converted sooner than those who are given to avarice.";<br /> maxim[5][19] = "He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.";<br /> maxim[5][20] = "All sins are highly displeasing to God, but above all sensuality and avarice, which are very difficult to cure.";<br /> maxim[5][21] = "We must always pray God not to let the spirit of avarice domineer over us, but that we may live detached from the affections of this world,";<br /> maxim[5][22] = "If we find nothing in the world to please us, we should be pleased that we have found nothing in the world to please us.";<br /> maxim[5][23] = "He who wishes to attain to perfection must have no attachment to anything.";<br /> maxim[5][24] = "It is a good thing to leave the world and our possessions to serve God, but it is not enough.";<br /> maxim[5][25] = "The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.";<br /> maxim[5][26] = "Let us strive after purity of heart, for the Holy Spirit dwells in candid and simple minds.";<br /> maxim[5][27] = "The Holy Spirit is the master of prayer, and causes us to abide in continual peace and cheerfulness, which is a foretaste of Paradise.";<br /> maxim[5][28] = "If we wish the Holy Spirit to teach us how to pray, we must practice humility and obedience.";<br /> maxim[5][29] = "The fruit we ought to get from prayer is to do what is pleasing to the Lord.";<br /> maxim[5][30] = "A virtuous life consists in mortifying vices, sins, bad thoughts, and evil affections, and in exercising ourselves in the acquisition of holy virtues.";<br /> maxim[5][31] = "Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: Obedience! Humility! Detachment!";<br /> <br /> maxim[6]=new Array();<br /> maxim[6][1] = "The love that our Blessed Lady had for God was so great that she suffered keenly through her desire of union with Him; hence the Eternal Father, to console her, sent her His only and beloved Son.";<br /> maxim[6][2] = "If you wish to come where I am going, that is, to glory, you must take this road, that is, through thorns.";<br /> maxim[6][3] = "Before communion, we ought to exercise ourselves in many acts of virtue.";<br /> maxim[6][4] = "Prayer and communion are not to be made or desired for the sake of the devotion we feel in them, for that is seeking self, and not God; but we must be frequent in both the one and the other in order to become humble, obedient, gentle, and patient.";<br /> maxim[6][5] = "When we see these virtues in a man — humility, obedience, gentleness, and patience — then we know that he has really gathered the fruit of prayer and of communion.";<br /> maxim[6][6] = "Our sweet Jesus, through the excess of His love and liberality, has left Himself to us in the Most Holy Sacrament.";<br /> maxim[6][7] = "Let all go to the eucharistic table with a great desire for that sacred food, thirsting, thirsting!";<br /> maxim[6][8] = "To feel any displeasure because we are refused Communion is a sign of hardiness, pride, and a want of mortification.";<br /> maxim[6][9] = "Those who are going to Communion should prepare themselves for more temptations than usual, for the Lord will not have us stand idle.";<br /> maxim[6][10] = "It is a good thing, during the week that follows our communion-day, to do something more than usual; for example, to say five Our Fathers and Hail Marys with our arms extended, or an extra rosary.";<br /> maxim[6][11] = "It is not a good thing to load ourselves with many spiritual exercises; it is better to undertake a little, and go on with it: for if the devil can persuade us to omit an exercise once, he will easily get us to omit it the second time, and the third, until at last all our pious practices will melt away.";<br /> maxim[6][12] = "We must take care of little faults: for he who once begins to go backward and to make light of such defects brings a sort of grossness over his conscience, and then goes wrong altogether.";<br /> maxim[6][13] = "The servant of God ought to seek knowledge, but never to show it or make a parade of it.";<br /> maxim[6][14] = "Let us always go to confession with sincerity and take as our rule never to conceal anything, no matter how slight, from our confessor because of human respect.";<br /> maxim[6][15] = "He who conceals a grave sin in confession is completely in the devil's hands.";<br /> maxim[6][16] = "Penitents should not generally change their confessors, nor confessors be forward to receive the penitents of others, a few particular cases excepted.";<br /> maxim[6][17] = "When a person who has been living a spiritual life for a long time falls into a serious fault, there is no better way of raising him up again than by encouraging him to manifest his fall to any pious friend with whom he has a particular intimacy, and God will restore him to his first estate because of his humility.";<br /> maxim[6][18] = "For young men to make sure of persevering, it is absolutely necessary that they should avoid wicked companions and be familiar with good ones.";<br /> maxim[6][19] = "In the spiritual life there are three degrees: the first may be called the animal life; this is the life of those who run after sensible devotion, which God generally gives to beginners, to allure them onwards by that sweetness to the spiritual life, just as an animal is drawn on by a sensible object.";<br /> maxim[6][20] = "The second degree may be called the human life; this is the life of those who do not experience any sensible sweetness, but by the help of virtue combat their own passions.";<br /> maxim[6][21] = "The third degree may be called the angelic life; this is the life that they come to, who, having been exercised for a long time in the taming of their own passions, receive from God a quiet, tranquil, and almost angelic life, even in this world, feeling no trouble or repugnance in anything.";<br /> maxim[6][22] = "Of these three degrees it is well to persevere in the second, because the Lord will grant the third in His own good time.";<br /> maxim[6][23] = "We must not be too ready to trust young men who have great devotion; we must wait till their wings are grown, and then see what sort of a flight they make.";<br /> maxim[6][24] = "Outward mortifications are a great help towards the acquisition of interior mortification and the other virtues.";<br /> maxim[6][25] = "He who cannot put up with the loss of his honor can never make any advance in spiritual things.";<br /> maxim[6][26] = "It is generally better to give the body rather too much food than rather too little; for the <i> too much</i> can be easily subtracted, but when a man has injured his constitution by the <i> too little</i>, it is not so easy to get right again.";<br /> maxim[6][27] = "The devil has a crafty custom of sometimes urging spiritual persons to penances and mortifications, in order that by going indiscreet lengths in this way, they may so weaken themselves as to be unable to attend to good works of greater importance; or be so intimidated by the sickliness they have brought upon themselves as to abandon their customary devotions, and at last turn their backs on the service of God.";<br /> maxim[6][28] = "Those who pay a moderate attention to the mortification of their bodies, and direct their main intention to mortify the will and understanding, even in matters of the slightest moment, are more to be esteemed than they who give themselves up exclusively to corporal penances and macerations.";<br /> maxim[6][29] = "We ought to desire to do great things for the service of God, not being content with a moderate goodness, but wishing, if it were possible, to surpass in sanctity and love even St. Peter and St. Paul.";<br /> maxim[6][30] = "Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as at least to do in desire what he cannot carry out in fact.";<br /> <br /> maxim[7]=new Array();<br /> maxim[7][1] = "We ought to make no account of abstinences and fasts when there is self-will in the matter.";<br /> maxim[7][2] = "Our Blessed Lady is the dispenser of all the favors that the goodness of God concedes to the Sons of Adam.";<br /> maxim[7][3] = "In seeking for counsel it is necessary sometimes to hear what our inferiors think, and to recommend ourselves to their prayers.";<br /> maxim[7][4] = "A man ought never to say one word in his own praise, however true it may be, no, not even in a joking way.";<br /> maxim[7][5] = "Whenever we do a good work, and somebody else takes the credit of it, we ought to rejoice, and acknowledge it as a gift from God. Anyhow, we ought not to be sorry, because if others diminish our glory before men, we shall recover it with all the more honor before God.";<br /> maxim[7][6] = "Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it.";<br /> maxim[7][7] = "We ought not to publish or manifest to every one the inspirations that God sends us, or the favors He grants us. My secret is for me!";<br /> maxim[7][8] = "In order to avoid all risk of vainglory, we ought to make some of our particular devotions in our own rooms, and never seek for sweetness and sensible consolations in public places.";<br /> maxim[7][9] = "The true medicine to cure us of pride is to keep down and thwart touchiness of mind.";<br /> maxim[7][10] = "When a man is reproved for anything, he ought not to take it too much to heart, for we commit a greater fault by our sadness than by the sin for which we are reproved.";<br /> maxim[7][11] = "Those who, when they have got a little devotion, think they are some great one, are only fit to be laughed at.";<br /> maxim[7][12] = "Humility is the true guardian of chastity.";<br /> maxim[7][13] = "When a man has fallen he ought to acknowledge it in some such way as this: “Ah, if I had been humble I should not have fallen!”";<br /> maxim[7][14] = "We ought to be pleased to hear that others are advancing in the service of God, especially if they are our relations or friends; and we ought to rejoice that they share in whatever spiritual good we may have ourselves.";<br /> maxim[7][15] = "In order the better to gain souls, in visiting the sick, we ought to imagine that what we do for the sick man we are doing for Christ Himself; we shall thus perform this work of mercy with more love and greater spiritual profit.";<br /> maxim[7][16] = "He whose health will not permit him to fast in honor of Christ and our Blessed Lady will please them much more by giving some alms more than usual.";<br /> maxim[7][17] = "Nothing is more dangerous for beginners in the spiritual life than to wish to play the master and to guide and convert others.";<br /> maxim[7][18] = "Beginners should look after their own conversion and be humble, lest they should fancy they had done some great thing, and so should fall into pride.";<br /> maxim[7][19] = "If we wish to help our neighbor, we must reserve neither place, hour, or season, for ourselves.";<br /> maxim[7][20] = "Avoid every kind of singularity, for it is generally the hot-bed of pride, especially spiritual pride.";<br /> maxim[7][21] = "A man must not, however, abstain from doing a good work merely to get out of the way of a temptation to vainglory.";<br /> maxim[7][22] = "The love of God makes us do great things.";<br /> maxim[7][23] = "We may distinguish three kinds of vainglory; the first we may call <i>mistress</i>; that is, when vainglory goes before our works, and we work for the sake of it: the second we may call <i>companion</i>; that is, when a man does not do a work for the sake of vainglory, but feels complacency in doing it: the third we may call <i>servant</i>; that is, when vainglory rises in our work, but we instantly repress it. Above all things we should never let vainglory be <i>mistress</i>.";<br /> maxim[7][24] = "When vainglory is <i>companion</i>, it does not take away our merit; but perfection requires that it should be <i>servant</i>.";<br /> maxim[7][25] = "He who works purely for the love of God desires nothing but His honor, and thus is ready in everything either to act or not to act, not just in indifferent matters, but even in good ones; and he is always resigned to the Will of God.";<br /> maxim[7][26] = "The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.";<br /> maxim[7][27] = "To obtain perfectly the gift of humility, four things are required: to despise the world, to despise oneself, to despise no one else, and to despise being despised.";<br /> maxim[7][28] = "Perfection consists in leading captive our own will, and in playing the king over it.";<br /> maxim[7][29] = "A man ought to mortify his understanding in little things if he wishes to mortify it easily in great ones and to advance in the way of virtue.";<br /> maxim[7][30] = "Without mortification nothing can be done.";<br /> maxim[7][31] = "We ought to hope for and love the glory of God by means of a good life.";<br /> <br /> maxim[8]=new Array();<br /> maxim[8][1] = "Because St. Peter and the other apostles and apostolic men saw that the Son of God was born in poverty, because He lived so absolutely without anything that He had nowhere to lay His Head, and because they contemplated Him dead and naked on a cross, they also stripped themselves of all things and took the road of the evangelical counsels.";<br /> maxim[8][2] = "Nothing unites the soul to God more closely, or breeds contempt of the world sooner, than being harassed and distressed.";<br /> maxim[8][3] = "In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble and infirmity turns into consolations, and through all kinds of trouble he has a paradise within himself even in this world; and he who does not serve God truly, and gives himself up to sensuality, has one hell in this world and another in the next.";<br /> maxim[8][4] = "To get good from reading the Lives of the Saints, and other spiritual books, we ought not to read out of curiosity, or skimmingly, but with pauses; and when we feel ourselves warmed, we ought not to pass on, but to stop and follow up the spirit that is stirring in us, and when we feel it no longer then to pursue our reading.";<br /> maxim[8][5] = "To begin and end well, devotion to our Blessed Lady, the Mother of God, is nothing less than indispensable.";<br /> maxim[8][6] = "We have no time to go to sleep here, for Paradise was not made for poltroons.";<br /> maxim[8][7] = "We must have confidence in God, who is what He always has been, and we must not be disheartened because things turn out contrary to our desires.";<br /> maxim[8][8] = "Men should not change from a good state of life to another, although it may be better, without taking grave counsel.";<br /> maxim[8][9] = "Let every one stay at home, that is, within himself, and sit in judgment on his own actions, without going abroad to investigate and criticize those of others.";<br /> maxim[8][10] = "The true servants of God endure life and desire death.";<br /> maxim[8][11] = "There is not a finer thing on earth than to make a virtue of necessity.";<br /> maxim[8][12] = "To preserve our cheerfulness amidst sicknesses and troubles is a sign of a right and good spirit.";<br /> maxim[8][13] = "A man should not ask tribulations of God, presuming on his being able to bear them: there should be the greatest possible caution in this matter, for he who bears what God sends him daily does not do a small thing.";<br /> maxim[8][14] = "Those who have been exercised in the service of God for a long time may in their prayers imagine all sorts of insults offered to them, such as blows, wounds, and the like, and so in order to imitate Christ by their charity, may accustom their hearts beforehand to forgive real injuries when they come.";<br /> maxim[8][15] = "Let us think of Mary, for she is that unspeakable virgin, that glorious lady, who conceived and brought forth, without detriment to her virginity, Him whom the width of the heavens cannot contain.";<br /> maxim[8][16] = "The true servant of God acknowledges no other country but heaven.";<br /> maxim[8][17] = "When God infuses extraordinary sweetness into the soul, a man ought to prepare for some serious tribulation or temptation.";<br /> maxim[8][18] = "When we experience extraordinary sweetness, we ought to ask of God fortitude to bear whatever He may please to send us, and then to stand very much upon our guard, because there is danger of sin behind.";<br /> maxim[8][19] = "One of the most excellent means of obtaining perseverance is discretion; we must not wish to do everything at once, or become a saint in four days.";<br /> maxim[8][20] = "In our clothes we ought, like St. Bernard, to love poverty, but not filthiness.";<br /> maxim[8][21] = "He who wishes to advance in spirituality should never slur over his defects negligently without a particular examination of conscience, even independent of the time of sacramental confession.";<br /> maxim[8][22] = "A man should not so attach himself to the means as to forget the end; neither must we give ourselves so much to mortify the flesh as to forget to mortify the mind, which is the chief thing after all.";<br /> maxim[8][23] = "We ought to desire the virtues of prelates, cardinals, and popes, but not their dignities.";<br /> maxim[8][24] = "The skin of self-love is fastened strongly on our hearts, and it hurts us to flay it off; the more we get down to the quick, the more keen and difficult it is.";<br /> maxim[8][25] = "This first step, which we ought to have taken of ourselves already, we have always in our mind, yet never put it in execution.";<br /> maxim[8][26] = "A man ought to set about putting his good resolutions in practice, and not change them lightly.";<br /> maxim[8][27] = "We must not omit our ordinary devotions such as such as going to confession on our fixed days or hearing mass on week-days for every trifling occasion that may get in the way; if we wish to go for a walk or anything of that sort, let us first make our confession and perform our usual spiritual exercises first, and then pursue the less important activities.";<br /> maxim[8][28] = "It is very useful for those who minister the word of God, or give themselves up to prayer, to read the works of authors whose names begin with S, such as <i> Saint</i> Augustine, <i> Saint </i> Bernard, etc.";<br /> maxim[8][29] = "Nothing more glorious can happen to a Christian than to suffer for Christ.";<br /> maxim[8][30] = "There is no surer or clearer proof of the love of God than adversity.";<br /> maxim[8][31] = "When God intends to grant a man any particular virtue, it is His way to let him be tempted to the opposite vice.";<br /> <br /> maxim[9]=new Array();<br /> maxim[9][1] = "Persons who live in the world should persevere in coming to church to hear sermons, and remember to read spiritual books, especially the Lives of the Saints.";<br /> maxim[9][2] = "When temptation comes, a man should remember the sweetness he has had in prayer at other times, and he will thus easily master the temptation.";<br /> maxim[9][3] = "The fervor of spirituality is usually very great in the beginning, but afterwards, the Lord <i> fingit se longius ire</i>, \"makes as though He would go farther\" (Lk 24:28): in such a case we must stand firm and not be disturbed, because God is then withdrawing His most holy Hand of sweetness to see if we are strong; and then, if we resist and overcome those tribulations and temptations, the sweetness and heavenly consolations return.";<br /> maxim[9][4] = "We ought to apply ourselves to the acquisition of virtue, because in the end the whole terminates in greater sweetness than before, and the Lord gives us back all our favors and consolations doubled.";<br /> maxim[9][5] = "It is easy to infuse a most fervent devotion into others, even in a short time, but the great matter is to persevere.";<br /> maxim[9][6] = "He who continues in anger, strife, and a bitter spirit has a taste of the air of hell.";<br /> maxim[9][7] = "To obtain the protection of our Blessed Lady in our most urgent wants, it is very useful to say sixty-three times, after the fashion of a Rosary, “Virgin Mary, Mother of God, pray to Jesus for me.”";<br /> maxim[9][8] = "When we make this prayer to our Blessed Lady — <i>“Virgin Mary, Mother of God, pray to Jesus for me”</i> — we give her every possible praise in the least possible compass, because we call her by her name of Mary, and give her those two great titles of Virgin, and Mother of God, and then name Jesus, the fruit of her most pure womb.";<br /> maxim[9][9] = "The things of this world do not remain constantly with us, for if we do not leave them before we actually die, in death at least we all infallibly depart as empty-handed as we came.";<br /> maxim[9][10] = "To pray well requires the whole man.";<br /> maxim[9][11] = "The discipline and other like things ought not to be practiced without the leave of our confessor; he who does it of his own mind will either hurt his constitution or become proud, fancying to himself that he has done some great thing.";<br /> maxim[9][12] = "God takes especial delight in the humility of a man who believes that he has not yet begun to do any good.";<br /> maxim[9][13] = "Before going to confession or taking counsel with our director, it will be very useful to pray for a sincere good will to become a really holy man.";<br /> maxim[9][14] = "He who runs away from one cross will meet a bigger one on his road.";<br /> maxim[9][15] = "Christ died for sinners; we must take heart, therefore, and hope that Paradise will be ours, provided only we repent of our sins, and do good.";<br /> maxim[9][16] = "Never let a sick man set himself to reason with the devil, otherwise he will inevitably be taken in; let him appeal to his spiritual father, of whom the devil stands in mortal fear.";<br /> maxim[9][17] = "He who serves God must do the best he can not to receive the reward of his labors in this world.";<br /> maxim[9][18] = "In giving alms to the poor we must act as good ministers of the Providence of God.";<br /> maxim[9][19] = "He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him should not wish to observe additional voluntary fasts, but to give alms.";<br /> maxim[9][20] = "Perfection cannot be attained without the greatest toil.";<br /> maxim[9][21] = "As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.";<br /> maxim[9][22] = "Even in the midst of the crowd, we can make progress toward perfection.";<br /> maxim[9][23] = "Not everything that is better in itself is better for each man in particular.";<br /> maxim[9][24] = "Be devout to the Madonna, keep yourself from sin, and God will deliver you from your evils.";<br /> maxim[9][25] = "If we wish to keep peace with our neighbors, we should never remind them of their natural defects.";<br /> maxim[9][26] = "We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have against our own will to bear with natural defects in ourselves.";<br /> maxim[9][27] = "Men of rank ought to dress like their equals, and be accompanied by servants, as their state requires, but modesty should go along with it all.";<br /> maxim[9][28] = "We should not be quick to correct others, but should rather strive to correct ourselves first.";<br /> maxim[9][29] = "Let us think, if we only get to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, <i> Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus. </i>";<br /> maxim[9][30] = "The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.";<br /> <br /> maxim[10]=new Array();<br /> maxim[10][1] = "In passing from a bad state to a good one there is no need of counsel, but in passing from a good one to a better, time, counsel, and prayer must go into the decision.";<br /> maxim[10][2] = "We must continually pray to God for the conversion of sinners, thinking of the joy there is in heaven both to God and the angels in the conversion of each separate sinner.";<br /> maxim[10][3] = "To speak of ourselves without cause, saying, “I have said,” “I have done,” incapacitates us for receiving spiritual consolations. ";<br /> maxim[10][4] = "We ought to desire to be in such a condition as to want sixpence, but not be able to get it.";<br /> maxim[10][5] = "Let us despise gold, silver, jewels, and all that the blind and cheated world vainly and ignorantly prizes.";<br /> maxim[10][6] = "Let us learn here below to give God the confession of praise that we ought to hope to give Him in heaven above.";<br /> maxim[10][7] = "He who wishes to go to Paradise must be an honest man and a good Christian, and not give heed to dreams.";<br /> maxim[10][8] = "Fathers and mothers of families should bring up their children virtuously, looking at them as God's children rather than their own; [they should bring up their children] to count life and health and all they possess as loans from God.";<br /> maxim[10][9] = "In saying the Our Father, we ought to reflect that we have God for our Father in heaven, and so on, meditating on the prayer word-by-word.";<br /> maxim[10][10] = "To make ourselves disaffected to the things of the world, it is a good thing to think seriously of the end of them, saying to ourselves,<i> “And then? And then?”</i>";<br /> maxim[10][11] = "The devil, who is a most haughty spirit, is never more completely mastered than by humility of heart, and a simple, clear, undisguised manifestation of our sins and temptations to our confessor.";<br /> maxim[10][12] = "We ought not ordinarily to believe prophecies or to desire them, because it is possible there may be many deceits and snares of the devil therein.";<br /> maxim[10][13] = "It is a most useful thing, when we see another doing any spiritual good to his neighbor, to seek by prayer to have a part in that same good that the Lord is working by the hand of another.";<br /> maxim[10][14] = "At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.";<br /> maxim[10][15] = "To him who truly loves God, nothing more displeasing can happen than the lack of occasion to suffer for Him.";<br /> maxim[10][16] = "We ought to hate no one, for God never comes where there is no love of our neighbors.";<br /> maxim[10][17] = "We must accept our own death and that of our relations when God shall send it to us, and not desire it at any other time; for it is sometimes necessary that it should happen at that particular moment for the good of our own and their souls.";<br /> maxim[10][18] = "The perfection of a Christian consists in knowing how to mortify himself for the love of Christ.";<br /> maxim[10][19] = "He who desires ecstasies and visions does not know what he is desiring.";<br /> maxim[10][20] = "As for those who run after visions, dreams, and the like, we must lay hold of them by the feet and pull them to the ground by force, lest they should fall into the devil's net.";<br /> maxim[10][21] = "According to the rules of the fathers and ancient monks, whoever wishes to advance in perfection must hold the world in contempt.";<br /> maxim[10][22] = "There is nothing more displeasing to God than our being inflated with self-esteem.";<br /> maxim[10][23] = "When a man knows how to break down his own will and to deny his soul what it desires, he has got a good degree in virtue.";<br /> maxim[10][24] = "When a man falls into any bodily infirmity, as he lies in bed recuperating, he must think and say, “God has sent me this sickness because He wishes something of me; I must therefore make up my mind to change my life and become better.”";<br /> maxim[10][25] = "When a man has a tribulation sent him from God and is impatient, we may say to him, “You are not worthy that God should visit you; you do not deserve so great a good.”";<br /> maxim[10][26] = "Poverty and tribulations are given us by God as trials of our fidelity and virtue, as well as to enrich us with more real and lasting riches in heaven.";<br /> maxim[10][27] = "Scruples ought to be most carefully avoided because they disquiet the mind and make a man melancholy.";<br /> maxim[10][28] = "Let us throw ourselves into the arms of God and be sure that if He wishes anything of us, He will make us capable of doing all He desires us to do for Him.";<br /> maxim[10][29] = "Nothing helps a man more than prayer.";<br /> maxim[10][30] = "Idleness is a pestilence to a Christian man; we ought always therefore to be doing something, especially when we are alone in our rooms, lest the devil should come in and catch us idle.";<br /> maxim[10][31] = "We ought always to be afraid, and should never put any confidence in ourselves; for the devil assaults us on a sudden, and darkens our understanding, and he who does not live in fear is overcome in a moment because he does not have the help of the Lord.";<br /> <br /> maxim[11]=new Array();<br /> maxim[11][1] = "The great thing is to become saints.";<br /> maxim[11][2] = "In order to enter Paradise we must be well justified and well purified.";<br /> maxim[11][3] = "Let the young man look after the flesh, and the old man after avarice, and we shall all be saints together.";<br /> maxim[11][4] = "Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.";<br /> maxim[11][5] = "The sanctity of a man lies in mortifying the understanding, which is all too ready to reason upon things.";<br /> maxim[11][6] = "He who really wishes to become a saint must never defend himself, except in a few rare cases, but always acknowledge himself in fault, even when what is alleged against him is untrue.";<br /> maxim[11][7] = "What we know of the virtues of the saints is the least part of them.";<br /> maxim[11][8] = "The relics of the saints ought to be venerated, and we may laudably keep them in our room; but it is not well, unless for some grave occasion, to wear them, because it often happens that they are not treated with all the respect that they deserve in those circumstances.";<br /> maxim[11][9] = "The old patriarchs possessed riches, and had wives and children, but they lived without defiling their affections with these things, although they possessed them, because they only allowed themselves the use of them, and were ready to abandon them in whatever way the Majesty of God might require of them.";<br /> maxim[11][10] = "We ought to pray earnestly that God will increase the light and heat of his goodness in us every day.";<br /> maxim[11][11] = "It is an old custom with the servants of God always to have some short prayers ready, and to send them up to heaven frequently during the day, lifting their minds to God from out of the filth of this world. He who adopts this plan will get great fruit with little pains.";<br /> maxim[11][12] = "Tribulations, if we bear them patiently for the love of God, appear bitter at first, but they grow sweet when one gets accustomed to the taste.";<br /> maxim[11][13] = "The man who loves God with a true heart, and prizes him above all things, sometimes sheds floods of tears at prayer, and has an abundance of favors and spiritual feelings coming upon him with such vehemence, that he is forced to cry out, “Lord! let me be quiet!”";<br /> maxim[11][14] = "But a man ought not to seek for these gifts of sweetness and sensible devotions forcibly, for he will be easily deluded by the devil, and will run a risk of injuring his health.";<br /> maxim[11][15] = "When the soul lies resignedly in the hands of God, and is contented with the divine pleasure, it is in good hands, and has the best security that good will happen to it.";<br /> maxim[11][16] = "To be entirely conformed and resigned to the Divine Will is truly a road on which we cannot go wrong, and is the only road that leads us to taste and enjoy that peace of which sensual and earthly men know nothing.";<br /> maxim[11][17] = "Resignation is all in all to the sick man; he ought to say to God, “Lord, if You want me, here I am, although I have never done any good: do with me what You will.”";<br /> maxim[11][18] = "Never make a noise of any sort in church, except for the greatest necessity.";<br /> maxim[11][19] = "Patience is necessary for the servant of God; we must not be distressed at trouble, but wait for consolation.";<br /> maxim[11][20] = "When lay faithful have once chosen not to pursue priestly or religious life, let them persevere in their secular pursuits, in the devout spiritual exercises that they have begun, and in their works of charity — then they shall have contentment at their death.";<br /> maxim[11][21] = "The vocation to the religious life is one of the great benefits that the Mother of God obtains from her Son for those who are devoted to her.";<br /> maxim[11][22] = "There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.";<br /> maxim[11][23] = "Among the things we ought to ask of God is perseverance in well-doing and in serving the Lord; for if we only have patience, and persevere in the good life we have begun to lead, we shall acquire a most eminent degree of spirituality.";<br /> maxim[11][24] = "He is perfect in the school of Christ who despises being despised, rejoices in self-contempt, and accounts himself to be truly nothing.";<br /> maxim[11][25] = "The way that God takes with the souls that love Him — allowing them to be tempted and to fall into tribulations — is a true espousal between Himself and them.";<br /> maxim[11][26] = "In temptations of the flesh, a Christian ought to have immediate recourse to God, make the sign of the cross over his heart three times, and say, “Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.”";<br /> maxim[11][27] = "As to temptations, some are mastered by flying from them, some by resisting them, and some by despising them.";<br /> maxim[11][28] = "In order to acquire prudence, and to make a good judgment, we must have lived long and been intimate with many people.";<br /> maxim[11][29] = "It is a great perfection in a heart when it is discreet and does not overstep the limits of what is appropriate and fitting.";<br /> maxim[11][30] = "We must seek Christ where Christ is not, that is, in crosses and tribulations, which He is truly not enduring now, but we shall find Him in glory by this road.";<br /> <br /> maxim[12]=new Array();<br /> maxim[12][1] = "Frequent confession is the cause of great good to the soul because it purifies it, heals it, and confirms it in the service of God: we ought not therefore to omit confession on our fixed days for any business whatsoever, but should go to confession first and to business afterwards, and the first will help the last.";<br /> maxim[12][2] = "When we go to confession, we ought to persuade ourselves to find Jesus Christ in the person of our confessor.";<br /> maxim[12][3] = "Give me ten men really detached from the world, and I have the heart to believe I could convert the world with them.";<br /> maxim[12][4] = "He who communicates often, as he ought to do, brings forth good fruit, the fruit of humility, the fruit of patience, the fruit of all the virtues.";<br /> maxim[12][5] = "Penitents ought not to go to confession for temporal ends, to get alms and the like.";<br /> maxim[12][6] = "We ought to make no account of an immodest person, notwithstanding that he may possess other virtues.";<br /> maxim[12][7] = "The Holy Spirit says of prelates and pastors, “He who hears and obeys his superiors, hears and obeys Me, and he who despises them, despises and disobeys Me.”";<br /> maxim[12][8] = "If the servant of God wishes to walk with more security through so many snares scattered in every place, he should have our Blessed Lady as his mediatrix with her Son.";<br /> maxim[12][9] = "The sick man may desire to get well, provided he seals his desire by praying, “If it please God,” “If it is good for my soul;” for we can do many good things in health that sickness hinders us from doing.";<br /> maxim[12][10] = "In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.";<br /> maxim[12][11] = "The mole is a blind rat that always stays in the ground; it eats earth, and hollows it out, but is never satisfied with it — so, too, the avaricious person.";<br /> maxim[12][12] = "Penitents should never make vows without the advice of their spiritual fathers.";<br /> maxim[12][13] = "If we do make such vows, it is best to make them conditionally: for example, “I make a vow to have two masses said on St. Lucy's day, with the reservation, &#39;If I can, if I do not forget it,&#39; because if I do not remember it, I do not wish to be bound.”";<br /> maxim[12][14] = "When a man has to buy anything, he ought not to do so because he is moved by an attachment to the thing, but from want and necessity; for it will never do to act out of a disordered desire for the thing.";<br /> maxim[12][15] = "Certain little voluntary attachments of self-love must be cut through, and then we must dig round them, and then remove the earth, till we get down deep enough to find the place where they are rooted and interlaced together.";<br /> maxim[12][16] = "A man must be ready to endure when he is mortified by others who are acting with a virtuous motive, and even when God permits him to be in such bad odor with others that he is regarded and driven away as an infected sheep.";<br /> maxim[12][17] = "Our enemy the devil, who fights with us in order to vanquish us, seeks to disunite us in our houses and to breed quarrels, dislikes, contests, and rivalries, because while we are fighting with each other, he comes and conquers us, and makes us more securely his own.";<br /> maxim[12][18] = "He who does not think on the benefits he receives from God in this life and on those greater ones his mercy has prepared in that other life of bliss does not nourish love for God, but chills and freezes it.";<br /> maxim[12][19] = "If a soul could altogether abstain from venial sins, the greatest pain it could have would be to be detained in this life, so great would its desire be of union with God.";<br /> maxim[12][20] = "In the persecutions that bad men excite against piety and devotion, we must keep our eyes on God, whom we serve, and on the testimony of a good conscience."; <br /> maxim[12][21] = "How patiently Christ, the King and Lord of heaven and earth, bore with the apostles, enduring at their hands much incivility and misunderstanding, they being but poor and rough fishermen! How much more ought we to bear with our neighbors when they are uncivil.";<br /> maxim[12][22] = "We must give ourselves to God altogether.";<br /> maxim[12][23] = "God makes all his own the soul that is wholly given to him.";<br /> maxim[12][24] = "It is as a general rule a bad sign when a man has not a particular feeling of devotion on the chief feasts of the year.";<br /> maxim[12][25] = "Let us reflect that the Word left heaven and stooped to become man for us.";<br /> maxim[12][26] = "Besides pardoning those who persecute us, we ought to feel pity for the delusion they are laboring under.";<br /> maxim[12][27] = "To one who really loves God, there is nothing more harassing or burdensome than life.";<br /> maxim[12][28] = "Let young men be cheerful and indulge in the recreations proper to their age, provided they keep out of the way of sin.";<br /> maxim[12][29] = "Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.";<br /> maxim[12][30] = "All created things share themselves freely and show the goodness of the Creator: the sun scatters its light, the fire its heat; the tree throws out its arms, which are its branches, and reaches to us the fruit it bears; water, and air, and all things in nature express the generosity of the Creator. 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Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=Maxims_and_Sayings_of_St._Philip_Neri&diff=21629 Maxims and Sayings of St. Philip Neri 2026-05-18T11:54:17Z

<p>Mxmsj: </p> <hr /> <div>{|<br /> |-<br /> |[[File:Neri.jpg|thumb|229px|left|<div align="center">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Neri St. Philip Neri,] pray for us.<br>[http://www.liturgialatina.org/oratorian/maxims.htm Source of maxims.]]]<br /> |<p id="dateToday"></p><br /> <div id="maximForToday" style="margin-left:4em;margin-right:4em;"></div><br /> <div id="feastToday"></div><br /> |}<br /> <html><br /> <script type="text/javascript"><br /> <br /> var explanation =<br /> "This script is designed to present one maxim from St. Philip Neri (1515-1595) each day. St. Philip was the joyful apostle of Rome and founder of the Oratorian priestly fellowship. St. Philip was told to find his India in Rome; may we find our Rome wherever God has placed us.";<br /> <br /> var d=new Date();<br /> <br /> var month=new Array(12);<br /> month[0]="January";<br /> month[1]="February";<br /> month[2]="March";<br /> month[3]="April";<br /> month[4]="May";<br /> month[5]="June";<br /> month[6]="July";<br /> month[7]="August";<br /> month[8]="September";<br /> month[9]="October";<br /> month[10]="November";<br /> month[11]="December";<br /> <br /> var weekday=new Array(7);<br /> weekday[0]="Sunday";<br /> weekday[1]="Monday";<br /> weekday[2]="Tuesday";<br /> weekday[3]="Wednesday";<br /> weekday[4]="Thursday";<br /> weekday[5]="Friday";<br /> weekday[6]="Saturday";<br /> <br /> var maxim=new Array();<br /> maxim[1]=new Array();<br /> maxim[1][1] = "Well! When shall we have a mind to begin to do good?";<br /> maxim[1][2] = "<i>Nulla dies sine linea: </i>Do not let a day pass without doing some good during it.";<br /> maxim[1][3] = "We must not be behind time in doing good, for death will not be behind his time.";<br /> maxim[1][4] = "Happy is the youth, because he has time before him to do good.";<br /> maxim[1][5] = "It is well to choose some one good devotion, and to stick to it, and never abandon it.";<br /> maxim[1][6] = "He who wishes for anything but Christ does not know what he wishes; he who asks for anything but Christ does not know what he is asking; he who works, but not for Christ, does not know what he is doing.";<br /> maxim[1][7] = "Let no one wear a mask, otherwise he will do ill; and if he has one, let him burn it.";<br /> maxim[1][8] = "Spiritual persons ought to be equally ready to experience sweetness and consolation in the things of God or to suffer and keep their ground during times of dryness of spirit and devotion, for as long as God pleases, without making any complaint about it.";<br /> maxim[1][9] = "God has no need of men.";<br /> maxim[1][10] = "If God be with us, there is no one else left to fear.";<br /> maxim[1][11] = "He who wishes to be perfectly obeyed should give but few orders.";<br /> maxim[1][12] = "A man should focus on what concerns him and not busy himself \"with wonders beyond his understanding\" (<i>in mirabilibus super se</i>).";<br /> maxim[1][13] = "Men should often renew their good resolutions, and not lose heart because they are tempted against them.";<br /> maxim[1][14] = "The name of Jesus, pronounced with reverence and affection, has a kind of power to soften the heart.";<br /> maxim[1][15] = "Obedience is a short cut to perfection.";<br /> maxim[1][16] = "They who really wish to advance in the ways of God must give themselves into the hands of their superiors always and in everything; and they who are not living under obedience must subject themselves of their own accord to a learned and discreet confessor, whom they must obey in the place of God, disclosing to him with perfect freedom and simplicity the affairs of their soul, and they should never come to any resolution without his advice.";<br /> maxim[1][17] = "There is nothing that gives greater security to our actions or more effectually cuts the snares the devil lays for us than to follow another person's will rather than our own in doing good.";<br /> maxim[1][18] = "Before a man chooses his confessor, he ought to think well about it and also pray about it; but when he has once chosen, he ought not to change, except for most urgent reasons, but put the utmost confidence in his director.";<br /> maxim[1][19] = "When the devil has failed in making a man fall, he puts forward all his energies to create distrust between the penitent and the confessor, and so by little and little he gains his end at last.";<br /> maxim[1][20] = "Let persons in the world sanctify themselves in their own houses, for what is done in the royal court, in the professions, or in some kind of ordinary work is no hindrance to the service of God.";<br /> maxim[1][21] = "Obedience is the true holocaust that we offer as a sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.";<br /> maxim[1][22] = "In order to be really obedient, it is not enough to do what obedience commands; we must do it without reasoning upon it.";<br /> maxim[1][23] = "Our Blessed Lady ought to be our love and our consolation.";<br /> maxim[1][24] = "The good works that we do of our own will are not so meritorious as those that are done under obedience.";<br /> maxim[1][25] = "The most beautiful prayer we can make is to say to God, “As Thou knowest and willest, O Lord, so do with me.”";<br /> maxim[1][26] = "When tribulations, infirmities, and contradictions come, we must not run away in a fright, but vanquish them like men.";<br /> maxim[1][27] = "It is not enough to see that God wishes the good we aim at, but that He wishes it through our instrumentality, in our manner, and in our time; and we come to discern all this by true obedience.";<br /> maxim[1][28] = "In order to be perfect, we must not only obey and honor our superiors; we must honor our equals and inferiors also.";<br /> maxim[1][29] = "In dealing with our neighbor, we must assume as much pleasantness of manner as we can, and by this affability win him to the way of virtue.";<br /> maxim[1][30] = "A man who leads a common life under obedience is more to be esteemed than one who does great penance after his own will.";<br /> maxim[1][31] = "To mortify one passion, no matter how small, is a greater help in the spiritual life than many abstinences, fasts, and disciplines.";<br /> <br /> maxim[2]=new Array();<br /> maxim[2][1] = "He who wishes to be wise without the true Wisdom, or saved without the Savior, is not well, but sick — he is not a wise man, but a fool.";<br /> maxim[2][2] = "Devotion to the Blessed Virgin is actually necessary because there is no better means of obtaining God's graces than through His most holy mother.";<br /> maxim[2][3] = "A man should force himself to be obedient, even in little things that appear of no moment, because he will thus render the practice of obedience in great matters easy to himself.";<br /> maxim[2][4] = "He who always acts under obedience may rest assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to God.";<br /> maxim[2][5] = "Perfection does not consist in such outward things as shedding tears and the like, but in true and solid virtues.";<br /> maxim[2][6] = "Tears are no sign that a man is in the grace of God, neither must we infer that one who weeps when he speaks of holy and devout things necessarily leads a holy life.";<br /> maxim[2][7] = "Cheerfulness strengthens the heart and makes us persevere in a good life; wherefore the servant of God ought always to be in good spirits. ";<br /> maxim[2][8] = "When a man is freed from a temptation or any other distress, let him take great care to show fitting gratitude to God for the benefit he has received.";<br /> maxim[2][9] = "We must accept the adversities that God sends us without reasoning too much upon them, and we must take for granted that it is the best thing that could happen to us.";<br /> maxim[2][10] = "We must always remember that God does everything well, although we may not see the reason of what He does.";<br /> maxim[2][11] = "Every one ought to give in readily to the opinion of another, to argue in favor of another and against himself, and to take things in good part.";<br /> maxim[2][12] = "There is nothing more to the purpose for exciting a spirit of prayer than the reading of spiritual books.";<br /> maxim[2][13] = "Let a man frequent the holy Sacraments, go to sermons, and often read the Lives of Saints.";<br /> maxim[2][14] = "Let a man always think that he has God before his eyes.";<br /> maxim[2][15] = "When a man is in an occasion of sin, let him look what he is doing, get himself out of the occasion, and avoid the sin.";<br /> maxim[2][16] = "There is nothing good in this world: <i> Vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas</i> (\"Vanity of vanities; all is vanity\").";<br /> maxim[2][17] = "We must die at last.";<br /> maxim[2][18] = "Beginners in religion ought to exercise themselves principally in meditation on the Four Last Things.";<br /> maxim[2][19] = "He who does not go down into hell while he is alive runs a great risk of going there after he is dead.";<br /> maxim[2][20] = "The greatest help to perseverance in the spiritual life is the habit of prayer, especially under the direction of our confessor.";<br /> maxim[2][21] = "There is nothing the devil fears so much or so much tries to hinder as prayer.";<br /> maxim[2][22] = "An excellent method of preserving ourselves from relapsing into serious faults is to say every evening, “To-morrow I may be dead.”";<br /> maxim[2][23] = "A man without prayer is an animal without the use of reason.";<br /> maxim[2][24] = "The religious state is indeed the highest, but it is not suitable for all.";<br /> maxim[2][25] = "A most excellent means of learning how to pray is to acknowledge ourselves unworthy of such a benefit, and to put ourselves entirely into the hands of the Lord.";<br /> maxim[2][26] = "The true preparation for prayer consists in the exercise of mortification; for he who wishes to give himself up to prayer without mortification is like a bird wishing to fly before it is fledged.";<br /> maxim[2][27] = "We can never arrive at the contemplative life if we do not first exercise ourselves laboriously in the active life.";<br /> maxim[2][28] = "We must exercise the spirit that God gives us in prayer, and follow that; so that, when, for example, it inclines us to meditate on the Passion, we must not wish to meditate on some other mystery.";<br /> maxim[2][29] = "When a person goes to communion, he ought to follow the same spirit he had in prayer, and not be casting about for new meditations.";<br /> <br /> maxim[3]=new Array();<br /> maxim[3][1] = "We must never pray for a favor for anyone, except conditionally, saying, “If it please God,” or the like.";<br /> maxim[3][2] = "When a spiritual person feels a great calmness of mind in asking anything of God, it is a good sign that God either has granted it, or will do so shortly.";<br /> maxim[3][3] = "A man ought never to think he has done any good, or rest contented with any degree of perfection he may have attained, because Christ has given us the type of our perfection in putting before us the perfection of the Eternal Father: 'Be ye perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect.'";<br /> maxim[3][4] = "The sweetness that some experience in prayer is milk that our Lord gives as a relish to those who are just beginning to serve Him.";<br /> maxim[3][5] = "To leave our prayer when we are called to do some act of charity for our neighbor is not really a quitting of prayer, but leaving Christ for Christ, that is, depriving ourselves of spiritual sweetness in order to gain souls.";<br /> maxim[3][6] = "It is good for a soul to go from prayer with an appetite and desire to return to it, rather than satiated and weary.";<br /> maxim[3][7] = "The wisdom of the Scriptures is learned rather by prayer than by study.";<br /> maxim[3][8] = "A diligent charity in ministering to the sick is a shortcut to the acquisition of perfect virtue.";<br /> maxim[3][9] = "Let women remain indoors and look after their families, and not be desirous of going into public.";<br /> maxim[3][10] = "We must pray incessantly for the gift of perseverance.";<br /> maxim[3][11] = "We must not leave off our prayers because of distractions and restlessness of mind, although it seems useless to go on with them. He who perseveres for the whole of his accustomed time, gently recalling his mind to the subject of his prayer, merits greatly.";<br /> maxim[3][12] = "If in times of dryness in prayer we make acts of humility, self-knowledge, protestations of our own inability to help ourselves, and petitions for God's assistance, all this is real and substantial prayer.";<br /> maxim[3][13] = "The best remedy for dryness of spirit is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.";<br /> maxim[3][14] = "We may even ask for a spiritual blessing physically by going first to the church of one Saint and then to the church of another to make our petition.";<br /> maxim[3][15] = "Without prayer a man will not persevere long in spirituality; we must have recourse to this most powerful means of salvation every day.";<br /> maxim[3][16] = "If young men wish to protect themselves from all danger of impurity, let them never retire to their own rooms immediately after dinner, either to read or write, or do anything else; but let them remain in conversation, because at that time the devil is wont to assault us with more than usual vehemence, and this is that demon which is called in Scripture the noonday demon, and from which holy David prayed to be delivered.";<br /> maxim[3][17] = "If young men would preserve their purity, let them avoid bad company.";<br /> maxim[3][18] = "Let them also avoid nourishing their bodies delicately.";<br /> maxim[3][19] = "It is God's custom to interweave human life with troubles and consolations, at least of an interior sort, alternately.";<br /> maxim[3][20] = "Young men should be very careful to avoid idleness.";<br /> maxim[3][21] = "When fathers have given their sons a good education, and set them on the right track, the sons who succeed them and continue to follow the road marked out for them will have the advantage of seeing their family persevere in holy ways and in the fear of God.";<br /> maxim[3][22] = "In order to preserve their purity, young men should frequent the Sacraments, and especially confession.";<br /> maxim[3][23] = "We must never trust ourselves, for it is the devil's way first to get us to feel secure, and then to make us fall.";<br /> maxim[3][24] = "We ought to fear and fly from temptations of the flesh, even in sickness and in old age itself — indeed, just as long as we can still open and shut our eyelids — for the spirit of lust gives no truce either to place, time, or person.";<br /> maxim[3][25] = "Our sweet Christ, the Word Incarnate, has given Himself to us in order to supply us with all we need, even giving Himself to us through His hard and ignominious death upon the cross.";<br /> maxim[3][26] = "One of the most efficacious means of keeping ourselves chaste is to have compassion for those who fall through their frailty, and never to boast in the least of being free, but with all humility to acknowledge that whatever we have is from the mercy of God.";<br /> maxim[3][27] = "To be without pity for other men's falls is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.";<br /> maxim[3][28] = "In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than the not fearing the danger: when a man does not distrust himself, and is without fear, it is all over with him.";<br /> maxim[3][29] = "The devil generally makes use of the weaker sex when he wishes to cause us to fall.";<br /> maxim[3][30] = "In order to begin well and to finish better, it is quite necessary to hear mass every day, unless there be some lawful hindrance in the way.";<br /> maxim[3][31] = "A most excellent means of keeping ourselves pure is to lay open all our thoughts as soon as possible to our confessor, with the greatest sincerity, and to keep nothing hidden in ourselves.";<br /> <br /> maxim[4]=new Array();<br /> maxim[4][1] = "To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.";<br /> maxim[4][2] = "Let a man who desires the first place take the last.";<br /> maxim[4][3] = 'As soon as a man feels that he is tempted, he should fly to God, and devoutly utter that petition which the fathers of the desert so much esteemed: <i>Deus in adjutorium meum intende; Domine ad adjuvandum me festina</i>, or that verse, <i>cor mundum crea in me Deus</i>.<p><ul style="float:right;margin-right:8em"><li>"God, come to my assistance; Lord, make haste to help me."</li><li>"A clean heart create for me, O God."</li></ul></div>';<br /> maxim[4][4] = "When sensual thoughts come into the mind, we ought immediately to make use of our minds and fix them instantaneously upon something or other, no matter what.";<br /> maxim[4][5] = "Never say, “What great things the Saints do,” but, “What great things God does in His Saints.”";<br /> maxim[4][6] = "In the warfare of the flesh, only cowards gain the victory; that is to say, those who run away from temptation.";<br /> maxim[4][7] = "We should be less alarmed for one who is tempted in the flesh, but who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid the occasions.";<br /> maxim[4][8] = "When a person puts himself in an occasion of sin, saying, “I shall not fall, I shall not commit this sin,” it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with all the greater damage to his soul.";<br /> maxim[4][9] = "It is a most useful thing to say often, and from the heart, “Lord, do not put any confidence in me, for I am sure to fall if You do not help me;” or, “O my Lord, look for nothing but evil from me.”";<br /> maxim[4][10] = "In temptation we ought not to say, “I will do,” “I will say,” for it is a species of presumption and self-confidence; we ought rather to say with humility, “I know what I should do, but I don't know what I will do.”";<br /> maxim[4][11] = "The stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great that no stench in the world can equal it.";<br /> maxim[4][12] = "We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybody's prayers.";<br /> maxim[4][13] = "We must avoid lies as we would a pestilence.";<br /> maxim[4][14] = "When we go to confession, we should accuse ourselves of our worst sins first, and of those things which we are most ashamed of, because by this means we put the devil to greater confusion and reap more fruit from our confession.";<br /> maxim[4][15] = "One of the very best means of obtaining humility is sincere and frequent confession.";<br /> maxim[4][16] = "In trying to get rid of bad habits, it is of the greatest importance not to put off going to confession after a fall, and also to keep to the same confessor.";<br /> maxim[4][17] = "In visiting the dying we should not say many words to them, but rather help them by praying for them.";<br /> maxim[4][18] = "A sick man should make God a present of his will; and if it turns out that he has to suffer for a long time, he must submit to the Divine Will.";<br /> maxim[4][19] = "The sick man must not fear when he is tempted to lose confidence; for if he has sinned, Christ has suffered and paid for him.";<br /> maxim[4][20] = "Let the sick man enter into the side of Jesus and His most holy wounds; let him not be afraid, but fight manfully, and he will come forth victorious.";<br /> maxim[4][21] = "The true way to advance in holy virtues is to persevere in holy cheerfulness.";<br /> maxim[4][22] = "The cheerful are much easier to guide in the spiritual life than the melancholy.";<br /> maxim[4][23] = "Those who wish to enter upon the religious life should first of all mortify themselves for a long time, and particularly mortify their will in things to which they have the greatest repugnance.";<br /> maxim[4][24] = "Excessive sadness seldom springs from any other source than pride.";<br /> maxim[4][25] = "Charity and cheerfulness, or charity and humility, should be our motto.";<br /> maxim[4][26] = "It is very necessary to be cheerful, but we must not on that account give in to a buffooning spirit.";<br /> maxim[4][27] = "Buffoonery incapacitates a person from receiving any additional spirituality from God.";<br /> maxim[4][28] = "Nay more, bufoonery roots up the little a man may have already acquired.";<br /> maxim[4][29] = "At table, especially where there are guests, we ought to eat every kind of food, and not say, “I like this,” and “I do not like that.”";<br /> maxim[4][30] = "Human language cannot express the beauty of a soul that dies in a state of grace.";<br /> <br /> maxim[5]=new Array();<br /> maxim[5][1] = "If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a crucifix, and think that Christ has shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave his enemies, but prayed the Eternal Father to forgive them also.";<br /> maxim[5][2] = "Let him remember also that when he says the Our Father every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is calling down vengeance upon them.";<br /> maxim[5][3] = "Men are generally the carpenters of their own crosses.";<br /> maxim[5][4] = "Let us concentrate ourselves so completely in the divine love and enter so far into the living fountain of wisdom through the wounded Side of our Incarnate God that we may deny ourselves and our self-love, and so be unable to find our way out of that Wound again.";<br /> maxim[5][5] = "We must not give up praying and asking because we do not get what we ask all at once.";<br /> maxim[5][6] = "He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer should often lift up his mind to God in brief prayers.";<br /> maxim[5][7] = "We must often remember what Christ said, that not he who begins, but he that perseveres to the end shall be saved.";<br /> maxim[5][8] = "We ought to abhor every kind of affectation, whether in talking, dressing, or anything else.";<br /> maxim[5][9] = "When a scrupulous person has once made up his mind that he has not consented to a temptation, he must not reason the matter over again to see whether he has really consented or not, for the same temptations often return by making this sort of reflection.";<br /> maxim[5][10] = "If those who are molested by scruples wish to know whether they have consented to a suggestion or not, especially in thoughts, they should see whether, during the temptation, they have always had a lively love to the virtue opposed to the vice in respect of which they were tempted, and hatred to that same vice, and this is mostly a good proof that they have not consented.";<br /> maxim[5][11] = "The scrupulous should submit to the judgment of their confessor always and in everything, and develop a contempt for their own scruples.";<br /> maxim[5][12] = "Scruples are an infirmity that will make a truce with a man, but very rarely peace; humility alone achieves victory over them.";<br /> maxim[5][13] = "Even in bodily indispositions, spiritual remedies are the most helpful.";<br /> maxim[5][14] = "As much love as we give to creatures, just so much we steal from the Creator.";<br /> maxim[5][15] = "Penitents ought never to force their confessor to give them permission to do anything against his inclination.";<br /> maxim[5][16] = "He who has the slightest taint of avarice about him will never make the least advance in virtue.";<br /> maxim[5][17] = "Avarice is the pest of the soul.";<br /> maxim[5][18] = "Experience shows that men given to carnal sins are converted sooner than those who are given to avarice.";<br /> maxim[5][19] = "He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.";<br /> maxim[5][20] = "All sins are highly displeasing to God, but above all sensuality and avarice, which are very difficult to cure.";<br /> maxim[5][21] = "We must always pray God not to let the spirit of avarice domineer over us, but that we may live detached from the affections of this world,";<br /> maxim[5][22] = "If we find nothing in the world to please us, we should be pleased that we have found nothing in the world to please us.";<br /> maxim[5][23] = "He who wishes to attain to perfection must have no attachment to anything.";<br /> maxim[5][24] = "It is a good thing to leave the world and our possessions to serve God, but it is not enough.";<br /> maxim[5][25] = "The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.";<br /> maxim[5][26] = "Let us strive after purity of heart, for the Holy Spirit dwells in candid and simple minds.";<br /> maxim[5][27] = "The Holy Spirit is the master of prayer, and causes us to abide in continual peace and cheerfulness, which is a foretaste of Paradise.";<br /> maxim[5][28] = "If we wish the Holy Spirit to teach us how to pray, we must practice humility and obedience.";<br /> maxim[5][29] = "The fruit we ought to get from prayer is to do what is pleasing to the Lord.";<br /> maxim[5][30] = "A virtuous life consists in mortifying vices, sins, bad thoughts, and evil affections, and in exercising ourselves in the acquisition of holy virtues.";<br /> maxim[5][31] = "Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: Obedience! Humility! Detachment!";<br /> <br /> maxim[6]=new Array();<br /> maxim[6][1] = "The love that our Blessed Lady had for God was so great that she suffered keenly through her desire of union with Him; hence the Eternal Father, to console her, sent her His only and beloved Son.";<br /> maxim[6][2] = "If you wish to come where I am going, that is, to glory, you must take this road, that is, through thorns.";<br /> maxim[6][3] = "Before communion, we ought to exercise ourselves in many acts of virtue.";<br /> maxim[6][4] = "Prayer and communion are not to be made or desired for the sake of the devotion we feel in them, for that is seeking self, and not God; but we must be frequent in both the one and the other in order to become humble, obedient, gentle, and patient.";<br /> maxim[6][5] = "When we see these virtues in a man — humility, obedience, gentleness, and patience — then we know that he has really gathered the fruit of prayer and of communion.";<br /> maxim[6][6] = "Our sweet Jesus, through the excess of His love and liberality, has left Himself to us in the Most Holy Sacrament.";<br /> maxim[6][7] = "Let all go to the eucharistic table with a great desire for that sacred food, thirsting, thirsting!";<br /> maxim[6][8] = "To feel any displeasure because we are refused Communion is a sign of hardiness, pride, and a want of mortification.";<br /> maxim[6][9] = "Those who are going to Communion should prepare themselves for more temptations than usual, for the Lord will not have us stand idle.";<br /> maxim[6][10] = "It is a good thing, during the week that follows our communion-day, to do something more than usual; for example, to say five Our Fathers and Hail Marys with our arms extended, or an extra rosary.";<br /> maxim[6][11] = "It is not a good thing to load ourselves with many spiritual exercises; it is better to undertake a little, and go on with it: for if the devil can persuade us to omit an exercise once, he will easily get us to omit it the second time, and the third, until at last all our pious practices will melt away.";<br /> maxim[6][12] = "We must take care of little faults: for he who once begins to go backward and to make light of such defects brings a sort of grossness over his conscience, and then goes wrong altogether.";<br /> maxim[6][13] = "The servant of God ought to seek knowledge, but never to show it or make a parade of it.";<br /> maxim[6][14] = "Let us always go to confession with sincerity and take as our rule never to conceal anything, no matter how slight, from our confessor because of human respect.";<br /> maxim[6][15] = "He who conceals a grave sin in confession is completely in the devil's hands.";<br /> maxim[6][16] = "Penitents should not generally change their confessors, nor confessors be forward to receive the penitents of others, a few particular cases excepted.";<br /> maxim[6][17] = "When a person who has been living a spiritual life for a long time falls into a serious fault, there is no better way of raising him up again than by encouraging him to manifest his fall to any pious friend with whom he has a particular intimacy, and God will restore him to his first estate because of his humility.";<br /> maxim[6][18] = "For young men to make sure of persevering, it is absolutely necessary that they should avoid wicked companions and be familiar with good ones.";<br /> maxim[6][19] = "In the spiritual life there are three degrees: the first may be called the animal life; this is the life of those who run after sensible devotion, which God generally gives to beginners, to allure them onwards by that sweetness to the spiritual life, just as an animal is drawn on by a sensible object.";<br /> maxim[6][20] = "The second degree may be called the human life; this is the life of those who do not experience any sensible sweetness, but by the help of virtue combat their own passions.";<br /> maxim[6][21] = "The third degree may be called the angelic life; this is the life that they come to, who, having been exercised for a long time in the taming of their own passions, receive from God a quiet, tranquil, and almost angelic life, even in this world, feeling no trouble or repugnance in anything.";<br /> maxim[6][22] = "Of these three degrees it is well to persevere in the second, because the Lord will grant the third in His own good time.";<br /> maxim[6][23] = "We must not be too ready to trust young men who have great devotion; we must wait till their wings are grown, and then see what sort of a flight they make.";<br /> maxim[6][24] = "Outward mortifications are a great help towards the acquisition of interior mortification and the other virtues.";<br /> maxim[6][25] = "He who cannot put up with the loss of his honor can never make any advance in spiritual things.";<br /> maxim[6][26] = "It is generally better to give the body rather too much food than rather too little; for the <i> too much</i> can be easily subtracted, but when a man has injured his constitution by the <i> too little</i>, it is not so easy to get right again.";<br /> maxim[6][27] = "The devil has a crafty custom of sometimes urging spiritual persons to penances and mortifications, in order that by going indiscreet lengths in this way, they may so weaken themselves as to be unable to attend to good works of greater importance; or be so intimidated by the sickliness they have brought upon themselves as to abandon their customary devotions, and at last turn their backs on the service of God.";<br /> maxim[6][28] = "Those who pay a moderate attention to the mortification of their bodies, and direct their main intention to mortify the will and understanding, even in matters of the slightest moment, are more to be esteemed than they who give themselves up exclusively to corporal penances and macerations.";<br /> maxim[6][29] = "We ought to desire to do great things for the service of God, not being content with a moderate goodness, but wishing, if it were possible, to surpass in sanctity and love even St. Peter and St. Paul.";<br /> maxim[6][30] = "Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as at least to do in desire what he cannot carry out in fact.";<br /> <br /> maxim[7]=new Array();<br /> maxim[7][1] = "We ought to make no account of abstinences and fasts when there is self-will in the matter.";<br /> maxim[7][2] = "Our Blessed Lady is the dispenser of all the favors that the goodness of God concedes to the Sons of Adam.";<br /> maxim[7][3] = "In seeking for counsel it is necessary sometimes to hear what our inferiors think, and to recommend ourselves to their prayers.";<br /> maxim[7][4] = "A man ought never to say one word in his own praise, however true it may be, no, not even in a joking way.";<br /> maxim[7][5] = "Whenever we do a good work, and somebody else takes the credit of it, we ought to rejoice, and acknowledge it as a gift from God. Anyhow, we ought not to be sorry, because if others diminish our glory before men, we shall recover it with all the more honor before God.";<br /> maxim[7][6] = "Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it.";<br /> maxim[7][7] = "We ought not to publish or manifest to every one the inspirations that God sends us, or the favors He grants us. My secret is for me!";<br /> maxim[7][8] = "In order to avoid all risk of vainglory, we ought to make some of our particular devotions in our own rooms, and never seek for sweetness and sensible consolations in public places.";<br /> maxim[7][9] = "The true medicine to cure us of pride is to keep down and thwart touchiness of mind.";<br /> maxim[7][10] = "When a man is reproved for anything, he ought not to take it too much to heart, for we commit a greater fault by our sadness than by the sin for which we are reproved.";<br /> maxim[7][11] = "Those who, when they have got a little devotion, think they are some great one, are only fit to be laughed at.";<br /> maxim[7][12] = "Humility is the true guardian of chastity.";<br /> maxim[7][13] = "When a man has fallen he ought to acknowledge it in some such way as this: “Ah, if I had been humble I should not have fallen!”";<br /> maxim[7][14] = "We ought to be pleased to hear that others are advancing in the service of God, especially if they are our relations or friends; and we ought to rejoice that they share in whatever spiritual good we may have ourselves.";<br /> maxim[7][15] = "In order the better to gain souls, in visiting the sick, we ought to imagine that what we do for the sick man we are doing for Christ Himself; we shall thus perform this work of mercy with more love and greater spiritual profit.";<br /> maxim[7][16] = "He whose health will not permit him to fast in honor of Christ and our Blessed Lady will please them much more by giving some alms more than usual.";<br /> maxim[7][17] = "Nothing is more dangerous for beginners in the spiritual life than to wish to play the master and to guide and convert others.";<br /> maxim[7][18] = "Beginners should look after their own conversion and be humble, lest they should fancy they had done some great thing, and so should fall into pride.";<br /> maxim[7][19] = "If we wish to help our neighbor, we must reserve neither place, hour, or season, for ourselves.";<br /> maxim[7][20] = "Avoid every kind of singularity, for it is generally the hot-bed of pride, especially spiritual pride.";<br /> maxim[7][21] = "A man must not, however, abstain from doing a good work merely to get out of the way of a temptation to vainglory.";<br /> maxim[7][22] = "The love of God makes us do great things.";<br /> maxim[7][23] = "We may distinguish three kinds of vainglory; the first we may call <i>mistress</i>; that is, when vainglory goes before our works, and we work for the sake of it: the second we may call <i>companion</i>; that is, when a man does not do a work for the sake of vainglory, but feels complacency in doing it: the third we may call <i>servant</i>; that is, when vainglory rises in our work, but we instantly repress it. Above all things we should never let vainglory be <i>mistress</i>.";<br /> maxim[7][24] = "When vainglory is <i>companion</i>, it does not take away our merit; but perfection requires that it should be <i>servant</i>.";<br /> maxim[7][25] = "He who works purely for the love of God desires nothing but His honor, and thus is ready in everything either to act or not to act, not just in indifferent matters, but even in good ones; and he is always resigned to the Will of God.";<br /> maxim[7][26] = "The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.";<br /> maxim[7][27] = "To obtain perfectly the gift of humility, four things are required: to despise the world, to despise oneself, to despise no one else, and to despise being despised.";<br /> maxim[7][28] = "Perfection consists in leading captive our own will, and in playing the king over it.";<br /> maxim[7][29] = "A man ought to mortify his understanding in little things if he wishes to mortify it easily in great ones and to advance in the way of virtue.";<br /> maxim[7][30] = "Without mortification nothing can be done.";<br /> maxim[7][31] = "We ought to hope for and love the glory of God by means of a good life.";<br /> <br /> maxim[8]=new Array();<br /> maxim[8][1] = "Because St. Peter and the other apostles and apostolic men saw that the Son of God was born in poverty, because He lived so absolutely without anything that He had nowhere to lay His Head, and because they contemplated Him dead and naked on a cross, they also stripped themselves of all things and took the road of the evangelical counsels.";<br /> maxim[8][2] = "Nothing unites the soul to God more closely, or breeds contempt of the world sooner, than being harassed and distressed.";<br /> maxim[8][3] = "In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble and infirmity turns into consolations, and through all kinds of trouble he has a paradise within himself even in this world; and he who does not serve God truly, and gives himself up to sensuality, has one hell in this world and another in the next.";<br /> maxim[8][4] = "To get good from reading the Lives of the Saints, and other spiritual books, we ought not to read out of curiosity, or skimmingly, but with pauses; and when we feel ourselves warmed, we ought not to pass on, but to stop and follow up the spirit that is stirring in us, and when we feel it no longer then to pursue our reading.";<br /> maxim[8][5] = "To begin and end well, devotion to our Blessed Lady, the Mother of God, is nothing less than indispensable.";<br /> maxim[8][6] = "We have no time to go to sleep here, for Paradise was not made for poltroons.";<br /> maxim[8][7] = "We must have confidence in God, who is what He always has been, and we must not be disheartened because things turn out contrary to our desires.";<br /> maxim[8][8] = "Men should not change from a good state of life to another, although it may be better, without taking grave counsel.";<br /> maxim[8][9] = "Let every one stay at home, that is, within himself, and sit in judgment on his own actions, without going abroad to investigate and criticize those of others.";<br /> maxim[8][10] = "The true servants of God endure life and desire death.";<br /> maxim[8][11] = "There is not a finer thing on earth than to make a virtue of necessity.";<br /> maxim[8][12] = "To preserve our cheerfulness amidst sicknesses and troubles is a sign of a right and good spirit.";<br /> maxim[8][13] = "A man should not ask tribulations of God, presuming on his being able to bear them: there should be the greatest possible caution in this matter, for he who bears what God sends him daily does not do a small thing.";<br /> maxim[8][14] = "Those who have been exercised in the service of God for a long time may in their prayers imagine all sorts of insults offered to them, such as blows, wounds, and the like, and so in order to imitate Christ by their charity, may accustom their hearts beforehand to forgive real injuries when they come.";<br /> maxim[8][15] = "Let us think of Mary, for she is that unspeakable virgin, that glorious lady, who conceived and brought forth, without detriment to her virginity, Him whom the width of the heavens cannot contain.";<br /> maxim[8][16] = "The true servant of God acknowledges no other country but heaven.";<br /> maxim[8][17] = "When God infuses extraordinary sweetness into the soul, a man ought to prepare for some serious tribulation or temptation.";<br /> maxim[8][18] = "When we experience extraordinary sweetness, we ought to ask of God fortitude to bear whatever He may please to send us, and then to stand very much upon our guard, because there is danger of sin behind.";<br /> maxim[8][19] = "One of the most excellent means of obtaining perseverance is discretion; we must not wish to do everything at once, or become a saint in four days.";<br /> maxim[8][20] = "In our clothes we ought, like St. Bernard, to love poverty, but not filthiness.";<br /> maxim[8][21] = "He who wishes to advance in spirituality should never slur over his defects negligently without a particular examination of conscience, even independent of the time of sacramental confession.";<br /> maxim[8][22] = "A man should not so attach himself to the means as to forget the end; neither must we give ourselves so much to mortify the flesh as to forget to mortify the mind, which is the chief thing after all.";<br /> maxim[8][23] = "We ought to desire the virtues of prelates, cardinals, and popes, but not their dignities.";<br /> maxim[8][24] = "The skin of self-love is fastened strongly on our hearts, and it hurts us to flay it off; the more we get down to the quick, the more keen and difficult it is.";<br /> maxim[8][25] = "This first step, which we ought to have taken of ourselves already, we have always in our mind, yet never put it in execution.";<br /> maxim[8][26] = "A man ought to set about putting his good resolutions in practice, and not change them lightly.";<br /> maxim[8][27] = "We must not omit our ordinary devotions such as such as going to confession on our fixed days or hearing mass on week-days for every trifling occasion that may get in the way; if we wish to go for a walk or anything of that sort, let us first make our confession and perform our usual spiritual exercises first, and then pursue the less important activities.";<br /> maxim[8][28] = "It is very useful for those who minister the word of God, or give themselves up to prayer, to read the works of authors whose names begin with S, such as <i> Saint</i> Augustine, <i> Saint </i> Bernard, etc.";<br /> maxim[8][29] = "Nothing more glorious can happen to a Christian than to suffer for Christ.";<br /> maxim[8][30] = "There is no surer or clearer proof of the love of God than adversity.";<br /> maxim[8][31] = "When God intends to grant a man any particular virtue, it is His way to let him be tempted to the opposite vice.";<br /> <br /> maxim[9]=new Array();<br /> maxim[9][1] = "Persons who live in the world should persevere in coming to church to hear sermons, and remember to read spiritual books, especially the Lives of the Saints.";<br /> maxim[9][2] = "When temptation comes, a man should remember the sweetness he has had in prayer at other times, and he will thus easily master the temptation.";<br /> maxim[9][3] = "The fervor of spirituality is usually very great in the beginning, but afterwards, the Lord <i> fingit se longius ire</i>, \"makes as though He would go farther\" (Lk 24:28): in such a case we must stand firm and not be disturbed, because God is then withdrawing His most holy Hand of sweetness to see if we are strong; and then, if we resist and overcome those tribulations and temptations, the sweetness and heavenly consolations return.";<br /> maxim[9][4] = "We ought to apply ourselves to the acquisition of virtue, because in the end the whole terminates in greater sweetness than before, and the Lord gives us back all our favors and consolations doubled.";<br /> maxim[9][5] = "It is easy to infuse a most fervent devotion into others, even in a short time, but the great matter is to persevere.";<br /> maxim[9][6] = "He who continues in anger, strife, and a bitter spirit has a taste of the air of hell.";<br /> maxim[9][7] = "To obtain the protection of our Blessed Lady in our most urgent wants, it is very useful to say sixty-three times, after the fashion of a Rosary, “Virgin Mary, Mother of God, pray to Jesus for me.”";<br /> maxim[9][8] = "When we make this prayer to our Blessed Lady — <i>“Virgin Mary, Mother of God, pray to Jesus for me”</i> — we give her every possible praise in the least possible compass, because we call her by her name of Mary, and give her those two great titles of Virgin, and Mother of God, and then name Jesus, the fruit of her most pure womb.";<br /> maxim[9][9] = "The things of this world do not remain constantly with us, for if we do not leave them before we actually die, in death at least we all infallibly depart as empty-handed as we came.";<br /> maxim[9][10] = "To pray well requires the whole man.";<br /> maxim[9][11] = "The discipline and other like things ought not to be practiced without the leave of our confessor; he who does it of his own mind will either hurt his constitution or become proud, fancying to himself that he has done some great thing.";<br /> maxim[9][12] = "God takes especial delight in the humility of a man who believes that he has not yet begun to do any good.";<br /> maxim[9][13] = "Before going to confession or taking counsel with our director, it will be very useful to pray for a sincere good will to become a really holy man.";<br /> maxim[9][14] = "He who runs away from one cross will meet a bigger one on his road.";<br /> maxim[9][15] = "Christ died for sinners; we must take heart, therefore, and hope that Paradise will be ours, provided only we repent of our sins, and do good.";<br /> maxim[9][16] = "Never let a sick man set himself to reason with the devil, otherwise he will inevitably be taken in; let him appeal to his spiritual father, of whom the devil stands in mortal fear.";<br /> maxim[9][17] = "He who serves God must do the best he can not to receive the reward of his labors in this world.";<br /> maxim[9][18] = "In giving alms to the poor we must act as good ministers of the Providence of God.";<br /> maxim[9][19] = "He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him should not wish to observe additional voluntary fasts, but to give alms.";<br /> maxim[9][20] = "Perfection cannot be attained without the greatest toil.";<br /> maxim[9][21] = "As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.";<br /> maxim[9][22] = "Even in the midst of the crowd, we can make progress toward perfection.";<br /> maxim[9][23] = "Not everything that is better in itself is better for each man in particular.";<br /> maxim[9][24] = "Be devout to the Madonna, keep yourself from sin, and God will deliver you from your evils.";<br /> maxim[9][25] = "If we wish to keep peace with our neighbors, we should never remind them of their natural defects.";<br /> maxim[9][26] = "We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have against our own will to bear with natural defects in ourselves.";<br /> maxim[9][27] = "Men of rank ought to dress like their equals, and be accompanied by servants, as their state requires, but modesty should go along with it all.";<br /> maxim[9][28] = "We should not be quick to correct others, but should rather strive to correct ourselves first.";<br /> maxim[9][29] = "Let us think, if we only get to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, <i> Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus. </i>";<br /> maxim[9][30] = "The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.";<br /> <br /> maxim[10]=new Array();<br /> maxim[10][1] = "In passing from a bad state to a good one there is no need of counsel, but in passing from a good one to a better, time, counsel, and prayer must go into the decision.";<br /> maxim[10][2] = "We must continually pray to God for the conversion of sinners, thinking of the joy there is in heaven both to God and the angels in the conversion of each separate sinner.";<br /> maxim[10][3] = "To speak of ourselves without cause, saying, “I have said,” “I have done,” incapacitates us for receiving spiritual consolations. ";<br /> maxim[10][4] = "We ought to desire to be in such a condition as to want sixpence, but not be able to get it.";<br /> maxim[10][5] = "Let us despise gold, silver, jewels, and all that the blind and cheated world vainly and ignorantly prizes.";<br /> maxim[10][6] = "Let us learn here below to give God the confession of praise that we ought to hope to give Him in heaven above.";<br /> maxim[10][7] = "He who wishes to go to Paradise must be an honest man and a good Christian, and not give heed to dreams.";<br /> maxim[10][8] = "Fathers and mothers of families should bring up their children virtuously, looking at them as God's children rather than their own; [they should bring up their children] to count life and health and all they possess as loans from God.";<br /> maxim[10][9] = "In saying the Our Father, we ought to reflect that we have God for our Father in heaven, and so on, meditating on the prayer word-by-word.";<br /> maxim[10][10] = "To make ourselves disaffected to the things of the world, it is a good thing to think seriously of the end of them, saying to ourselves,<i> “And then? And then?”</i>";<br /> maxim[10][11] = "The devil, who is a most haughty spirit, is never more completely mastered than by humility of heart, and a simple, clear, undisguised manifestation of our sins and temptations to our confessor.";<br /> maxim[10][12] = "We ought not ordinarily to believe prophecies or to desire them, because it is possible there may be many deceits and snares of the devil therein.";<br /> maxim[10][13] = "It is a most useful thing, when we see another doing any spiritual good to his neighbor, to seek by prayer to have a part in that same good that the Lord is working by the hand of another.";<br /> maxim[10][14] = "At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.";<br /> maxim[10][15] = "To him who truly loves God, nothing more displeasing can happen than the lack of occasion to suffer for Him.";<br /> maxim[10][16] = "We ought to hate no one, for God never comes where there is no love of our neighbors.";<br /> maxim[10][17] = "We must accept our own death and that of our relations when God shall send it to us, and not desire it at any other time; for it is sometimes necessary that it should happen at that particular moment for the good of our own and their souls.";<br /> maxim[10][18] = "The perfection of a Christian consists in knowing how to mortify himself for the love of Christ.";<br /> maxim[10][19] = "He who desires ecstasies and visions does not know what he is desiring.";<br /> maxim[10][20] = "As for those who run after visions, dreams, and the like, we must lay hold of them by the feet and pull them to the ground by force, lest they should fall into the devil's net.";<br /> maxim[10][21] = "According to the rules of the fathers and ancient monks, whoever wishes to advance in perfection must hold the world in contempt.";<br /> maxim[10][22] = "There is nothing more displeasing to God than our being inflated with self-esteem.";<br /> maxim[10][23] = "When a man knows how to break down his own will and to deny his soul what it desires, he has got a good degree in virtue.";<br /> maxim[10][24] = "When a man falls into any bodily infirmity, as he lies in bed recuperating, he must think and say, “God has sent me this sickness because He wishes something of me; I must therefore make up my mind to change my life and become better.”";<br /> maxim[10][25] = "When a man has a tribulation sent him from God and is impatient, we may say to him, “You are not worthy that God should visit you; you do not deserve so great a good.”";<br /> maxim[10][26] = "Poverty and tribulations are given us by God as trials of our fidelity and virtue, as well as to enrich us with more real and lasting riches in heaven.";<br /> maxim[10][27] = "Scruples ought to be most carefully avoided because they disquiet the mind and make a man melancholy.";<br /> maxim[10][28] = "Let us throw ourselves into the arms of God and be sure that if He wishes anything of us, He will make us capable of doing all He desires us to do for Him.";<br /> maxim[10][29] = "Nothing helps a man more than prayer.";<br /> maxim[10][30] = "Idleness is a pestilence to a Christian man; we ought always therefore to be doing something, especially when we are alone in our rooms, lest the devil should come in and catch us idle.";<br /> maxim[10][31] = "We ought always to be afraid, and should never put any confidence in ourselves; for the devil assaults us on a sudden, and darkens our understanding, and he who does not live in fear is overcome in a moment because he does not have the help of the Lord.";<br /> <br /> maxim[11]=new Array();<br /> maxim[11][1] = "The great thing is to become saints.";<br /> maxim[11][2] = "In order to enter Paradise we must be well justified and well purified.";<br /> maxim[11][3] = "Let the young man look after the flesh, and the old man after avarice, and we shall all be saints together.";<br /> maxim[11][4] = "Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.";<br /> maxim[11][5] = "The sanctity of a man lies in mortifying the understanding, which is all too ready to reason upon things.";<br /> maxim[11][6] = "He who really wishes to become a saint must never defend himself, except in a few rare cases, but always acknowledge himself in fault, even when what is alleged against him is untrue.";<br /> maxim[11][7] = "What we know of the virtues of the saints is the least part of them.";<br /> maxim[11][8] = "The relics of the saints ought to be venerated, and we may laudably keep them in our room; but it is not well, unless for some grave occasion, to wear them, because it often happens that they are not treated with all the respect that they deserve in those circumstances.";<br /> maxim[11][9] = "The old patriarchs possessed riches, and had wives and children, but they lived without defiling their affections with these things, although they possessed them, because they only allowed themselves the use of them, and were ready to abandon them in whatever way the Majesty of God might require of them.";<br /> maxim[11][10] = "We ought to pray earnestly that God will increase the light and heat of his goodness in us every day.";<br /> maxim[11][11] = "It is an old custom with the servants of God always to have some short prayers ready, and to send them up to heaven frequently during the day, lifting their minds to God from out of the filth of this world. He who adopts this plan will get great fruit with little pains.";<br /> maxim[11][12] = "Tribulations, if we bear them patiently for the love of God, appear bitter at first, but they grow sweet when one gets accustomed to the taste.";<br /> maxim[11][13] = "The man who loves God with a true heart, and prizes him above all things, sometimes sheds floods of tears at prayer, and has an abundance of favors and spiritual feelings coming upon him with such vehemence, that he is forced to cry out, “Lord! let me be quiet!”";<br /> maxim[11][14] = "But a man ought not to seek for these gifts of sweetness and sensible devotions forcibly, for he will be easily deluded by the devil, and will run a risk of injuring his health.";<br /> maxim[11][15] = "When the soul lies resignedly in the hands of God, and is contented with the divine pleasure, it is in good hands, and has the best security that good will happen to it.";<br /> maxim[11][16] = "To be entirely conformed and resigned to the Divine Will is truly a road on which we cannot go wrong, and is the only road that leads us to taste and enjoy that peace of which sensual and earthly men know nothing.";<br /> maxim[11][17] = "Resignation is all in all to the sick man; he ought to say to God, “Lord, if You want me, here I am, although I have never done any good: do with me what You will.”";<br /> maxim[11][18] = "Never make a noise of any sort in church, except for the greatest necessity.";<br /> maxim[11][19] = "Patience is necessary for the servant of God; we must not be distressed at trouble, but wait for consolation.";<br /> maxim[11][20] = "When lay faithful have once chosen not to pursue priestly or religious life, let them persevere in their secular pursuits, in the devout spiritual exercises that they have begun, and in their works of charity — then they shall have contentment at their death.";<br /> maxim[11][21] = "The vocation to the religious life is one of the great benefits that the Mother of God obtains from her Son for those who are devoted to her.";<br /> maxim[11][22] = "There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.";<br /> maxim[11][23] = "Among the things we ought to ask of God is perseverance in well-doing and in serving the Lord; for if we only have patience, and persevere in the good life we have begun to lead, we shall acquire a most eminent degree of spirituality.";<br /> maxim[11][24] = "He is perfect in the school of Christ who despises being despised, rejoices in self-contempt, and accounts himself to be truly nothing.";<br /> maxim[11][25] = "The way that God takes with the souls that love Him — allowing them to be tempted and to fall into tribulations — is a true espousal between Himself and them.";<br /> maxim[11][26] = "In temptations of the flesh, a Christian ought to have immediate recourse to God, make the sign of the cross over his heart three times, and say, “Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.”";<br /> maxim[11][27] = "As to temptations, some are mastered by flying from them, some by resisting them, and some by despising them.";<br /> maxim[11][28] = "In order to acquire prudence, and to make a good judgment, we must have lived long and been intimate with many people.";<br /> maxim[11][29] = "It is a great perfection in a heart when it is discreet and does not overstep the limits of what is appropriate and fitting.";<br /> maxim[11][30] = "We must seek Christ where Christ is not, that is, in crosses and tribulations, which He is truly not enduring now, but we shall find Him in glory by this road.";<br /> <br /> maxim[12]=new Array();<br /> maxim[12][1] = "Frequent confession is the cause of great good to the soul because it purifies it, heals it, and confirms it in the service of God: we ought not therefore to omit confession on our fixed days for any business whatsoever, but should go to confession first and to business afterwards, and the first will help the last.";<br /> maxim[12][2] = "When we go to confession, we ought to persuade ourselves to find Jesus Christ in the person of our confessor.";<br /> maxim[12][3] = "Give me ten men really detached from the world, and I have the heart to believe I could convert the world with them.";<br /> maxim[12][4] = "He who communicates often, as he ought to do, brings forth good fruit, the fruit of humility, the fruit of patience, the fruit of all the virtues.";<br /> maxim[12][5] = "Penitents ought not to go to confession for temporal ends, to get alms and the like.";<br /> maxim[12][6] = "We ought to make no account of an immodest person, notwithstanding that he may possess other virtues.";<br /> maxim[12][7] = "The Holy Spirit says of prelates and pastors, “He who hears and obeys his superiors, hears and obeys Me, and he who despises them, despises and disobeys Me.”";<br /> maxim[12][8] = "If the servant of God wishes to walk with more security through so many snares scattered in every place, he should have our Blessed Lady as his mediatrix with her Son.";<br /> maxim[12][9] = "The sick man may desire to get well, provided he seals his desire by praying, “If it please God,” “If it is good for my soul;” for we can do many good things in health that sickness hinders us from doing.";<br /> maxim[12][10] = "In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.";<br /> maxim[12][11] = "The mole is a blind rat that always stays in the ground; 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Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=Maxims_and_Sayings_of_St._Philip_Neri&diff=21628 Maxims and Sayings of St. Philip Neri 2026-05-18T11:53:27Z

<p>Mxmsj: </p> <hr /> <div>{|<br /> |-<br /> |[[File:Neri.jpg|thumb|229px|left|<div align="center">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Neri St. Philip Neri,] pray for us.<br>[http://www.liturgialatina.org/oratorian/maxims.htm Source of maxims.]]]<br /> |<p id="dateToday"></p><br /> <div id="maximForToday" style="margin-left:4em;margin-right:4em;"></div><br /> <div id="feastToday"></div><br /> |}<br /> <html><br /> <script type="text/javascript"><br /> <br /> var explanation =<br /> "This script is designed to present one maxim from St. Philip Neri (1515-1595) each day. St. Philip was the joyful apostle of Rome and founder of the Oratorian priestly fellowship. St. Philip was told to find his India in Rome; may we find our Rome wherever God has placed us.";<br /> <br /> var d=new Date();<br /> <br /> var month=new Array(12);<br /> month[0]="January";<br /> month[1]="February";<br /> month[2]="March";<br /> month[3]="April";<br /> month[4]="May";<br /> month[5]="June";<br /> month[6]="July";<br /> month[7]="August";<br /> month[8]="September";<br /> month[9]="October";<br /> month[10]="November";<br /> month[11]="December";<br /> <br /> var weekday=new Array(7);<br /> weekday[0]="Sunday";<br /> weekday[1]="Monday";<br /> weekday[2]="Tuesday";<br /> weekday[3]="Wednesday";<br /> weekday[4]="Thursday";<br /> weekday[5]="Friday";<br /> weekday[6]="Saturday";<br /> <br /> var maxim=new Array();<br /> maxim[1]=new Array();<br /> maxim[1][1] = "Well! When shall we have a mind to begin to do good?";<br /> maxim[1][2] = "<i>Nulla dies sine linea: </i>Do not let a day pass without doing some good during it.";<br /> maxim[1][3] = "We must not be behind time in doing good, for death will not be behind his time.";<br /> maxim[1][4] = "Happy is the youth, because he has time before him to do good.";<br /> maxim[1][5] = "It is well to choose some one good devotion, and to stick to it, and never abandon it.";<br /> maxim[1][6] = "He who wishes for anything but Christ does not know what he wishes; he who asks for anything but Christ does not know what he is asking; he who works, but not for Christ, does not know what he is doing.";<br /> maxim[1][7] = "Let no one wear a mask, otherwise he will do ill; and if he has one, let him burn it.";<br /> maxim[1][8] = "Spiritual persons ought to be equally ready to experience sweetness and consolation in the things of God or to suffer and keep their ground during times of dryness of spirit and devotion, for as long as God pleases, without making any complaint about it.";<br /> maxim[1][9] = "God has no need of men.";<br /> maxim[1][10] = "If God be with us, there is no one else left to fear.";<br /> maxim[1][11] = "He who wishes to be perfectly obeyed should give but few orders.";<br /> maxim[1][12] = "A man should focus on what concerns him and not busy himself \"with wonders beyond his understanding\" (<i>in mirabilibus super se</i>).";<br /> maxim[1][13] = "Men should often renew their good resolutions, and not lose heart because they are tempted against them.";<br /> maxim[1][14] = "The name of Jesus, pronounced with reverence and affection, has a kind of power to soften the heart.";<br /> maxim[1][15] = "Obedience is a short cut to perfection.";<br /> maxim[1][16] = "They who really wish to advance in the ways of God must give themselves into the hands of their superiors always and in everything; and they who are not living under obedience must subject themselves of their own accord to a learned and discreet confessor, whom they must obey in the place of God, disclosing to him with perfect freedom and simplicity the affairs of their soul, and they should never come to any resolution without his advice.";<br /> maxim[1][17] = "There is nothing that gives greater security to our actions or more effectually cuts the snares the devil lays for us than to follow another person's will rather than our own in doing good.";<br /> maxim[1][18] = "Before a man chooses his confessor, he ought to think well about it and also pray about it; but when he has once chosen, he ought not to change, except for most urgent reasons, but put the utmost confidence in his director.";<br /> maxim[1][19] = "When the devil has failed in making a man fall, he puts forward all his energies to create distrust between the penitent and the confessor, and so by little and little he gains his end at last.";<br /> maxim[1][20] = "Let persons in the world sanctify themselves in their own houses, for what is done in the royal court, in the professions, or in some kind of ordinary work is no hindrance to the service of God.";<br /> maxim[1][21] = "Obedience is the true holocaust that we offer as a sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.";<br /> maxim[1][22] = "In order to be really obedient, it is not enough to do what obedience commands; we must do it without reasoning upon it.";<br /> maxim[1][23] = "Our Blessed Lady ought to be our love and our consolation.";<br /> maxim[1][24] = "The good works that we do of our own will are not so meritorious as those that are done under obedience.";<br /> maxim[1][25] = "The most beautiful prayer we can make is to say to God, “As Thou knowest and willest, O Lord, so do with me.”";<br /> maxim[1][26] = "When tribulations, infirmities, and contradictions come, we must not run away in a fright, but vanquish them like men.";<br /> maxim[1][27] = "It is not enough to see that God wishes the good we aim at, but that He wishes it through our instrumentality, in our manner, and in our time; and we come to discern all this by true obedience.";<br /> maxim[1][28] = "In order to be perfect, we must not only obey and honor our superiors; we must honor our equals and inferiors also.";<br /> maxim[1][29] = "In dealing with our neighbor, we must assume as much pleasantness of manner as we can, and by this affability win him to the way of virtue.";<br /> maxim[1][30] = "A man who leads a common life under obedience is more to be esteemed than one who does great penance after his own will.";<br /> maxim[1][31] = "To mortify one passion, no matter how small, is a greater help in the spiritual life than many abstinences, fasts, and disciplines.";<br /> <br /> maxim[2]=new Array();<br /> maxim[2][1] = "He who wishes to be wise without the true Wisdom, or saved without the Savior, is not well, but sick — he is not a wise man, but a fool.";<br /> maxim[2][2] = "Devotion to the Blessed Virgin is actually necessary because there is no better means of obtaining God's graces than through His most holy mother.";<br /> maxim[2][3] = "A man should force himself to be obedient, even in little things that appear of no moment, because he will thus render the practice of obedience in great matters easy to himself.";<br /> maxim[2][4] = "He who always acts under obedience may rest assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to God.";<br /> maxim[2][5] = "Perfection does not consist in such outward things as shedding tears and the like, but in true and solid virtues.";<br /> maxim[2][6] = "Tears are no sign that a man is in the grace of God, neither must we infer that one who weeps when he speaks of holy and devout things necessarily leads a holy life.";<br /> maxim[2][7] = "Cheerfulness strengthens the heart and makes us persevere in a good life; wherefore the servant of God ought always to be in good spirits. ";<br /> maxim[2][8] = "When a man is freed from a temptation or any other distress, let him take great care to show fitting gratitude to God for the benefit he has received.";<br /> maxim[2][9] = "We must accept the adversities that God sends us without reasoning too much upon them, and we must take for granted that it is the best thing that could happen to us.";<br /> maxim[2][10] = "We must always remember that God does everything well, although we may not see the reason of what He does.";<br /> maxim[2][11] = "Every one ought to give in readily to the opinion of another, to argue in favor of another and against himself, and to take things in good part.";<br /> maxim[2][12] = "There is nothing more to the purpose for exciting a spirit of prayer than the reading of spiritual books.";<br /> maxim[2][13] = "Let a man frequent the holy Sacraments, go to sermons, and often read the Lives of Saints.";<br /> maxim[2][14] = "Let a man always think that he has God before his eyes.";<br /> maxim[2][15] = "When a man is in an occasion of sin, let him look what he is doing, get himself out of the occasion, and avoid the sin.";<br /> maxim[2][16] = "There is nothing good in this world: <i> Vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas</i> (\"Vanity of vanities; all is vanity\").";<br /> maxim[2][17] = "We must die at last.";<br /> maxim[2][18] = "Beginners in religion ought to exercise themselves principally in meditation on the Four Last Things.";<br /> maxim[2][19] = "He who does not go down into hell while he is alive runs a great risk of going there after he is dead.";<br /> maxim[2][20] = "The greatest help to perseverance in the spiritual life is the habit of prayer, especially under the direction of our confessor.";<br /> maxim[2][21] = "There is nothing the devil fears so much or so much tries to hinder as prayer.";<br /> maxim[2][22] = "An excellent method of preserving ourselves from relapsing into serious faults is to say every evening, “To-morrow I may be dead.”";<br /> maxim[2][23] = "A man without prayer is an animal without the use of reason.";<br /> maxim[2][24] = "The religious state is indeed the highest, but it is not suitable for all.";<br /> maxim[2][25] = "A most excellent means of learning how to pray is to acknowledge ourselves unworthy of such a benefit, and to put ourselves entirely into the hands of the Lord.";<br /> maxim[2][26] = "The true preparation for prayer consists in the exercise of mortification; for he who wishes to give himself up to prayer without mortification is like a bird wishing to fly before it is fledged.";<br /> maxim[2][27] = "We can never arrive at the contemplative life if we do not first exercise ourselves laboriously in the active life.";<br /> maxim[2][28] = "We must exercise the spirit that God gives us in prayer, and follow that; so that, when, for example, it inclines us to meditate on the Passion, we must not wish to meditate on some other mystery.";<br /> maxim[2][29] = "When a person goes to communion, he ought to follow the same spirit he had in prayer, and not be casting about for new meditations.";<br /> <br /> maxim[3]=new Array();<br /> maxim[3][1] = "We must never pray for a favor for anyone, except conditionally, saying, “If it please God,” or the like.";<br /> maxim[3][2] = "When a spiritual person feels a great calmness of mind in asking anything of God, it is a good sign that God either has granted it, or will do so shortly.";<br /> maxim[3][3] = "A man ought never to think he has done any good, or rest contented with any degree of perfection he may have attained, because Christ has given us the type of our perfection in putting before us the perfection of the Eternal Father: 'Be ye perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect.'";<br /> maxim[3][4] = "The sweetness that some experience in prayer is milk that our Lord gives as a relish to those who are just beginning to serve Him.";<br /> maxim[3][5] = "To leave our prayer when we are called to do some act of charity for our neighbor is not really a quitting of prayer, but leaving Christ for Christ, that is, depriving ourselves of spiritual sweetness in order to gain souls.";<br /> maxim[3][6] = "It is good for a soul to go from prayer with an appetite and desire to return to it, rather than satiated and weary.";<br /> maxim[3][7] = "The wisdom of the Scriptures is learned rather by prayer than by study.";<br /> maxim[3][8] = "A diligent charity in ministering to the sick is a shortcut to the acquisition of perfect virtue.";<br /> maxim[3][9] = "Let women remain indoors and look after their families, and not be desirous of going into public.";<br /> maxim[3][10] = "We must pray incessantly for the gift of perseverance.";<br /> maxim[3][11] = "We must not leave off our prayers because of distractions and restlessness of mind, although it seems useless to go on with them. He who perseveres for the whole of his accustomed time, gently recalling his mind to the subject of his prayer, merits greatly.";<br /> maxim[3][12] = "If in times of dryness in prayer we make acts of humility, self-knowledge, protestations of our own inability to help ourselves, and petitions for God's assistance, all this is real and substantial prayer.";<br /> maxim[3][13] = "The best remedy for dryness of spirit is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.";<br /> maxim[3][14] = "We may even ask for a spiritual blessing physically by going first to the church of one Saint and then to the church of another to make our petition.";<br /> maxim[3][15] = "Without prayer a man will not persevere long in spirituality; we must have recourse to this most powerful means of salvation every day.";<br /> maxim[3][16] = "If young men wish to protect themselves from all danger of impurity, let them never retire to their own rooms immediately after dinner, either to read or write, or do anything else; but let them remain in conversation, because at that time the devil is wont to assault us with more than usual vehemence, and this is that demon which is called in Scripture the noonday demon, and from which holy David prayed to be delivered.";<br /> maxim[3][17] = "If young men would preserve their purity, let them avoid bad company.";<br /> maxim[3][18] = "Let them also avoid nourishing their bodies delicately.";<br /> maxim[3][19] = "It is God's custom to interweave human life with troubles and consolations, at least of an interior sort, alternately.";<br /> maxim[3][20] = "Young men should be very careful to avoid idleness.";<br /> maxim[3][21] = "When fathers have given their sons a good education, and set them on the right track, the sons who succeed them and continue to follow the road marked out for them will have the advantage of seeing their family persevere in holy ways and in the fear of God.";<br /> maxim[3][22] = "In order to preserve their purity, young men should frequent the Sacraments, and especially confession.";<br /> maxim[3][23] = "We must never trust ourselves, for it is the devil's way first to get us to feel secure, and then to make us fall.";<br /> maxim[3][24] = "We ought to fear and fly from temptations of the flesh, even in sickness and in old age itself — indeed, just as long as we can still open and shut our eyelids — for the spirit of lust gives no truce either to place, time, or person.";<br /> maxim[3][25] = "Our sweet Christ, the Word Incarnate, has given Himself to us in order to supply us with all we need, even giving Himself to us through His hard and ignominious death upon the cross.";<br /> maxim[3][26] = "One of the most efficacious means of keeping ourselves chaste is to have compassion for those who fall through their frailty, and never to boast in the least of being free, but with all humility to acknowledge that whatever we have is from the mercy of God.";<br /> maxim[3][27] = "To be without pity for other men's falls is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.";<br /> maxim[3][28] = "In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than the not fearing the danger: when a man does not distrust himself, and is without fear, it is all over with him.";<br /> maxim[3][29] = "The devil generally makes use of the weaker sex when he wishes to cause us to fall.";<br /> maxim[3][30] = "In order to begin well and to finish better, it is quite necessary to hear mass every day, unless there be some lawful hindrance in the way.";<br /> maxim[3][31] = "A most excellent means of keeping ourselves pure is to lay open all our thoughts as soon as possible to our confessor, with the greatest sincerity, and to keep nothing hidden in ourselves.";<br /> <br /> maxim[4]=new Array();<br /> maxim[4][1] = "To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.";<br /> maxim[4][2] = "Let a man who desires the first place take the last.";<br /> maxim[4][3] = 'As soon as a man feels that he is tempted, he should fly to God, and devoutly utter that petition which the fathers of the desert so much esteemed: <i>Deus in adjutorium meum intende; Domine ad adjuvandum me festina</i>, or that verse, <i>cor mundum crea in me Deus</i>.<p><ul style="float:right;margin-right:8em"><li>"God, come to my assistance; Lord, make haste to help me."</li><li>"A clean heart create for me, O God."</li></ul></div>';<br /> maxim[4][4] = "When sensual thoughts come into the mind, we ought immediately to make use of our minds and fix them instantaneously upon something or other, no matter what.";<br /> maxim[4][5] = "Never say, “What great things the Saints do,” but, “What great things God does in His Saints.”";<br /> maxim[4][6] = "In the warfare of the flesh, only cowards gain the victory; that is to say, those who run away from temptation.";<br /> maxim[4][7] = "We should be less alarmed for one who is tempted in the flesh, but who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid the occasions.";<br /> maxim[4][8] = "When a person puts himself in an occasion of sin, saying, “I shall not fall, I shall not commit this sin,” it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with all the greater damage to his soul.";<br /> maxim[4][9] = "It is a most useful thing to say often, and from the heart, “Lord, do not put any confidence in me, for I am sure to fall if You do not help me;” or, “O my Lord, look for nothing but evil from me.”";<br /> maxim[4][10] = "In temptation we ought not to say, “I will do,” “I will say,” for it is a species of presumption and self-confidence; we ought rather to say with humility, “I know what I should do, but I don't know what I will do.”";<br /> maxim[4][11] = "The stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great that no stench in the world can equal it.";<br /> maxim[4][12] = "We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybody's prayers.";<br /> maxim[4][13] = "We must avoid lies as we would a pestilence.";<br /> maxim[4][14] = "When we go to confession, we should accuse ourselves of our worst sins first, and of those things which we are most ashamed of, because by this means we put the devil to greater confusion and reap more fruit from our confession.";<br /> maxim[4][15] = "One of the very best means of obtaining humility is sincere and frequent confession.";<br /> maxim[4][16] = "In trying to get rid of bad habits, it is of the greatest importance not to put off going to confession after a fall, and also to keep to the same confessor.";<br /> maxim[4][17] = "In visiting the dying we should not say many words to them, but rather help them by praying for them.";<br /> maxim[4][18] = "A sick man should make God a present of his will; and if it turns out that he has to suffer for a long time, he must submit to the Divine Will.";<br /> maxim[4][19] = "The sick man must not fear when he is tempted to lose confidence; for if he has sinned, Christ has suffered and paid for him.";<br /> maxim[4][20] = "Let the sick man enter into the side of Jesus and His most holy wounds; let him not be afraid, but fight manfully, and he will come forth victorious.";<br /> maxim[4][21] = "The true way to advance in holy virtues is to persevere in holy cheerfulness.";<br /> maxim[4][22] = "The cheerful are much easier to guide in the spiritual life than the melancholy.";<br /> maxim[4][23] = "Those who wish to enter upon the religious life should first of all mortify themselves for a long time, and particularly mortify their will in things to which they have the greatest repugnance.";<br /> maxim[4][24] = "Excessive sadness seldom springs from any other source than pride.";<br /> maxim[4][25] = "Charity and cheerfulness, or charity and humility, should be our motto.";<br /> maxim[4][26] = "It is very necessary to be cheerful, but we must not on that account give in to a buffooning spirit.";<br /> maxim[4][27] = "Buffoonery incapacitates a person from receiving any additional spirituality from God.";<br /> maxim[4][28] = "Nay more, bufoonery roots up the little a man may have already acquired.";<br /> maxim[4][29] = "At table, especially where there are guests, we ought to eat every kind of food, and not say, “I like this,” and “I do not like that.”";<br /> maxim[4][30] = "Human language cannot express the beauty of a soul that dies in a state of grace.";<br /> <br /> maxim[5]=new Array();<br /> maxim[5][1] = "If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a crucifix, and think that Christ has shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave his enemies, but prayed the Eternal Father to forgive them also.";<br /> maxim[5][2] = "Let him remember also that when he says the Our Father every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is calling down vengeance upon them.";<br /> maxim[5][3] = "Men are generally the carpenters of their own crosses.";<br /> maxim[5][4] = "Let us concentrate ourselves so completely in the divine love and enter so far into the living fountain of wisdom through the wounded Side of our Incarnate God that we may deny ourselves and our self-love, and so be unable to find our way out of that Wound again.";<br /> maxim[5][5] = "We must not give up praying and asking because we do not get what we ask all at once.";<br /> maxim[5][6] = "He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer should often lift up his mind to God in brief prayers.";<br /> maxim[5][7] = "We must often remember what Christ said, that not he who begins, but he that perseveres to the end shall be saved.";<br /> maxim[5][8] = "We ought to abhor every kind of affectation, whether in talking, dressing, or anything else.";<br /> maxim[5][9] = "When a scrupulous person has once made up his mind that he has not consented to a temptation, he must not reason the matter over again to see whether he has really consented or not, for the same temptations often return by making this sort of reflection.";<br /> maxim[5][10] = "If those who are molested by scruples wish to know whether they have consented to a suggestion or not, especially in thoughts, they should see whether, during the temptation, they have always had a lively love to the virtue opposed to the vice in respect of which they were tempted, and hatred to that same vice, and this is mostly a good proof that they have not consented.";<br /> maxim[5][11] = "The scrupulous should submit to the judgment of their confessor always and in everything, and develop a contempt for their own scruples.";<br /> maxim[5][12] = "Scruples are an infirmity that will make a truce with a man, but very rarely peace; humility alone achieves victory over them.";<br /> maxim[5][13] = "Even in bodily indispositions, spiritual remedies are the most helpful.";<br /> maxim[5][14] = "As much love as we give to creatures, just so much we steal from the Creator.";<br /> maxim[5][15] = "Penitents ought never to force their confessor to give them permission to do anything against his inclination.";<br /> maxim[5][16] = "He who has the slightest taint of avarice about him will never make the least advance in virtue.";<br /> maxim[5][17] = "Avarice is the pest of the soul.";<br /> maxim[5][18] = "Experience shows that men given to carnal sins are converted sooner than those who are given to avarice.";<br /> maxim[5][19] = "He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.";<br /> maxim[5][20] = "All sins are highly displeasing to God, but above all sensuality and avarice, which are very difficult to cure.";<br /> maxim[5][21] = "We must always pray God not to let the spirit of avarice domineer over us, but that we may live detached from the affections of this world,";<br /> maxim[5][22] = "If we find nothing in the world to please us, we should be pleased that we have found nothing in the world to please us.";<br /> maxim[5][23] = "He who wishes to attain to perfection must have no attachment to anything.";<br /> maxim[5][24] = "It is a good thing to leave the world and our possessions to serve God, but it is not enough.";<br /> maxim[5][25] = "The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.";<br /> maxim[5][26] = "Let us strive after purity of heart, for the Holy Spirit dwells in candid and simple minds.";<br /> maxim[5][27] = "The Holy Spirit is the master of prayer, and causes us to abide in continual peace and cheerfulness, which is a foretaste of Paradise.";<br /> maxim[5][28] = "If we wish the Holy Spirit to teach us how to pray, we must practice humility and obedience.";<br /> maxim[5][29] = "The fruit we ought to get from prayer is to do what is pleasing to the Lord.";<br /> maxim[5][30] = "A virtuous life consists in mortifying vices, sins, bad thoughts, and evil affections, and in exercising ourselves in the acquisition of holy virtues.";<br /> maxim[5][31] = "Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: Obedience! Humility! Detachment!";<br /> <br /> maxim[6]=new Array();<br /> maxim[6][1] = "The love that our Blessed Lady had for God was so great that she suffered keenly through her desire of union with Him; hence the Eternal Father, to console her, sent her His only and beloved Son.";<br /> maxim[6][2] = "If you wish to come where I am going, that is, to glory, you must take this road, that is, through thorns.";<br /> maxim[6][3] = "Before communion, we ought to exercise ourselves in many acts of virtue.";<br /> maxim[6][4] = "Prayer and communion are not to be made or desired for the sake of the devotion we feel in them, for that is seeking self, and not God; but we must be frequent in both the one and the other in order to become humble, obedient, gentle, and patient.";<br /> maxim[6][5] = "When we see these virtues in a man — humility, obedience, gentleness, and patience — then we know that he has really gathered the fruit of prayer and of communion.";<br /> maxim[6][6] = "Our sweet Jesus, through the excess of His love and liberality, has left Himself to us in the Most Holy Sacrament.";<br /> maxim[6][7] = "Let all go to the eucharistic table with a great desire for that sacred food, thirsting, thirsting!";<br /> maxim[6][8] = "To feel any displeasure because we are refused Communion is a sign of hardiness, pride, and a want of mortification.";<br /> maxim[6][9] = "Those who are going to Communion should prepare themselves for more temptations than usual, for the Lord will not have us stand idle.";<br /> maxim[6][10] = "It is a good thing, during the week that follows our communion-day, to do something more than usual; for example, to say five Our Fathers and Hail Marys with our arms extended, or an extra rosary.";<br /> maxim[6][11] = "It is not a good thing to load ourselves with many spiritual exercises; it is better to undertake a little, and go on with it: for if the devil can persuade us to omit an exercise once, he will easily get us to omit it the second time, and the third, until at last all our pious practices will melt away.";<br /> maxim[6][12] = "We must take care of little faults: for he who once begins to go backward and to make light of such defects brings a sort of grossness over his conscience, and then goes wrong altogether.";<br /> maxim[6][13] = "The servant of God ought to seek knowledge, but never to show it or make a parade of it.";<br /> maxim[6][14] = "Let us always go to confession with sincerity and take as our rule never to conceal anything, no matter how slight, from our confessor because of human respect.";<br /> maxim[6][15] = "He who conceals a grave sin in confession is completely in the devil's hands.";<br /> maxim[6][16] = "Penitents should not generally change their confessors, nor confessors be forward to receive the penitents of others, a few particular cases excepted.";<br /> maxim[6][17] = "When a person who has been living a spiritual life for a long time falls into a serious fault, there is no better way of raising him up again than by encouraging him to manifest his fall to any pious friend with whom he has a particular intimacy, and God will restore him to his first estate because of his humility.";<br /> maxim[6][18] = "For young men to make sure of persevering, it is absolutely necessary that they should avoid wicked companions and be familiar with good ones.";<br /> maxim[6][19] = "In the spiritual life there are three degrees: the first may be called the animal life; this is the life of those who run after sensible devotion, which God generally gives to beginners, to allure them onwards by that sweetness to the spiritual life, just as an animal is drawn on by a sensible object.";<br /> maxim[6][20] = "The second degree may be called the human life; this is the life of those who do not experience any sensible sweetness, but by the help of virtue combat their own passions.";<br /> maxim[6][21] = "The third degree may be called the angelic life; this is the life that they come to, who, having been exercised for a long time in the taming of their own passions, receive from God a quiet, tranquil, and almost angelic life, even in this world, feeling no trouble or repugnance in anything.";<br /> maxim[6][22] = "Of these three degrees it is well to persevere in the second, because the Lord will grant the third in His own good time.";<br /> maxim[6][23] = "We must not be too ready to trust young men who have great devotion; we must wait till their wings are grown, and then see what sort of a flight they make.";<br /> maxim[6][24] = "Outward mortifications are a great help towards the acquisition of interior mortification and the other virtues.";<br /> maxim[6][25] = "He who cannot put up with the loss of his honor can never make any advance in spiritual things.";<br /> maxim[6][26] = "It is generally better to give the body rather too much food than rather too little; for the <i> too much</i> can be easily subtracted, but when a man has injured his constitution by the <i> too little</i>, it is not so easy to get right again.";<br /> maxim[6][27] = "The devil has a crafty custom of sometimes urging spiritual persons to penances and mortifications, in order that by going indiscreet lengths in this way, they may so weaken themselves as to be unable to attend to good works of greater importance; or be so intimidated by the sickliness they have brought upon themselves as to abandon their customary devotions, and at last turn their backs on the service of God.";<br /> maxim[6][28] = "Those who pay a moderate attention to the mortification of their bodies, and direct their main intention to mortify the will and understanding, even in matters of the slightest moment, are more to be esteemed than they who give themselves up exclusively to corporal penances and macerations.";<br /> maxim[6][29] = "We ought to desire to do great things for the service of God, not being content with a moderate goodness, but wishing, if it were possible, to surpass in sanctity and love even St. Peter and St. Paul.";<br /> maxim[6][30] = "Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as at least to do in desire what he cannot carry out in fact.";<br /> <br /> maxim[7]=new Array();<br /> maxim[7][1] = "We ought to make no account of abstinences and fasts when there is self-will in the matter.";<br /> maxim[7][2] = "Our Blessed Lady is the dispenser of all the favors that the goodness of God concedes to the Sons of Adam.";<br /> maxim[7][3] = "In seeking for counsel it is necessary sometimes to hear what our inferiors think, and to recommend ourselves to their prayers.";<br /> maxim[7][4] = "A man ought never to say one word in his own praise, however true it may be, no, not even in a joking way.";<br /> maxim[7][5] = "Whenever we do a good work, and somebody else takes the credit of it, we ought to rejoice, and acknowledge it as a gift from God. Anyhow, we ought not to be sorry, because if others diminish our glory before men, we shall recover it with all the more honor before God.";<br /> maxim[7][6] = "Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it.";<br /> maxim[7][7] = "We ought not to publish or manifest to every one the inspirations that God sends us, or the favors He grants us. My secret is for me!";<br /> maxim[7][8] = "In order to avoid all risk of vainglory, we ought to make some of our particular devotions in our own rooms, and never seek for sweetness and sensible consolations in public places.";<br /> maxim[7][9] = "The true medicine to cure us of pride is to keep down and thwart touchiness of mind.";<br /> maxim[7][10] = "When a man is reproved for anything, he ought not to take it too much to heart, for we commit a greater fault by our sadness than by the sin for which we are reproved.";<br /> maxim[7][11] = "Those who, when they have got a little devotion, think they are some great one, are only fit to be laughed at.";<br /> maxim[7][12] = "Humility is the true guardian of chastity.";<br /> maxim[7][13] = "When a man has fallen he ought to acknowledge it in some such way as this: “Ah, if I had been humble I should not have fallen!”";<br /> maxim[7][14] = "We ought to be pleased to hear that others are advancing in the service of God, especially if they are our relations or friends; and we ought to rejoice that they share in whatever spiritual good we may have ourselves.";<br /> maxim[7][15] = "In order the better to gain souls, in visiting the sick, we ought to imagine that what we do for the sick man we are doing for Christ Himself; we shall thus perform this work of mercy with more love and greater spiritual profit.";<br /> maxim[7][16] = "He whose health will not permit him to fast in honor of Christ and our Blessed Lady will please them much more by giving some alms more than usual.";<br /> maxim[7][17] = "Nothing is more dangerous for beginners in the spiritual life than to wish to play the master and to guide and convert others.";<br /> maxim[7][18] = "Beginners should look after their own conversion and be humble, lest they should fancy they had done some great thing, and so should fall into pride.";<br /> maxim[7][19] = "If we wish to help our neighbor, we must reserve neither place, hour, or season, for ourselves.";<br /> maxim[7][20] = "Avoid every kind of singularity, for it is generally the hot-bed of pride, especially spiritual pride.";<br /> maxim[7][21] = "A man must not, however, abstain from doing a good work merely to get out of the way of a temptation to vainglory.";<br /> maxim[7][22] = "The love of God makes us do great things.";<br /> maxim[7][23] = "We may distinguish three kinds of vainglory; the first we may call <i>mistress</i>; that is, when vainglory goes before our works, and we work for the sake of it: the second we may call <i>companion</i>; that is, when a man does not do a work for the sake of vainglory, but feels complacency in doing it: the third we may call <i>servant</i>; that is, when vainglory rises in our work, but we instantly repress it. Above all things we should never let vainglory be <i>mistress</i>.";<br /> maxim[7][24] = "When vainglory is <i>companion</i>, it does not take away our merit; but perfection requires that it should be <i>servant</i>.";<br /> maxim[7][25] = "He who works purely for the love of God desires nothing but His honor, and thus is ready in everything either to act or not to act, not just in indifferent matters, but even in good ones; and he is always resigned to the Will of God.";<br /> maxim[7][26] = "The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.";<br /> maxim[7][27] = "To obtain perfectly the gift of humility, four things are required: to despise the world, to despise oneself, to despise no one else, and to despise being despised.";<br /> maxim[7][28] = "Perfection consists in leading captive our own will, and in playing the king over it.";<br /> maxim[7][29] = "A man ought to mortify his understanding in little things if he wishes to mortify it easily in great ones and to advance in the way of virtue.";<br /> maxim[7][30] = "Without mortification nothing can be done.";<br /> maxim[7][31] = "We ought to hope for and love the glory of God by means of a good life.";<br /> <br /> maxim[8]=new Array();<br /> maxim[8][1] = "Because St. Peter and the other apostles and apostolic men saw that the Son of God was born in poverty, because He lived so absolutely without anything that He had nowhere to lay His Head, and because they contemplated Him dead and naked on a cross, they also stripped themselves of all things and took the road of the evangelical counsels.";<br /> maxim[8][2] = "Nothing unites the soul to God more closely, or breeds contempt of the world sooner, than being harassed and distressed.";<br /> maxim[8][3] = "In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble and infirmity turns into consolations, and through all kinds of trouble he has a paradise within himself even in this world; and he who does not serve God truly, and gives himself up to sensuality, has one hell in this world and another in the next.";<br /> maxim[8][4] = "To get good from reading the Lives of the Saints, and other spiritual books, we ought not to read out of curiosity, or skimmingly, but with pauses; and when we feel ourselves warmed, we ought not to pass on, but to stop and follow up the spirit that is stirring in us, and when we feel it no longer then to pursue our reading.";<br /> maxim[8][5] = "To begin and end well, devotion to our Blessed Lady, the Mother of God, is nothing less than indispensable.";<br /> maxim[8][6] = "We have no time to go to sleep here, for Paradise was not made for poltroons.";<br /> maxim[8][7] = "We must have confidence in God, who is what He always has been, and we must not be disheartened because things turn out contrary to our desires.";<br /> maxim[8][8] = "Men should not change from a good state of life to another, although it may be better, without taking grave counsel.";<br /> maxim[8][9] = "Let every one stay at home, that is, within himself, and sit in judgment on his own actions, without going abroad to investigate and criticize those of others.";<br /> maxim[8][10] = "The true servants of God endure life and desire death.";<br /> maxim[8][11] = "There is not a finer thing on earth than to make a virtue of necessity.";<br /> maxim[8][12] = "To preserve our cheerfulness amidst sicknesses and troubles is a sign of a right and good spirit.";<br /> maxim[8][13] = "A man should not ask tribulations of God, presuming on his being able to bear them: there should be the greatest possible caution in this matter, for he who bears what God sends him daily does not do a small thing.";<br /> maxim[8][14] = "Those who have been exercised in the service of God for a long time may in their prayers imagine all sorts of insults offered to them, such as blows, wounds, and the like, and so in order to imitate Christ by their charity, may accustom their hearts beforehand to forgive real injuries when they come.";<br /> maxim[8][15] = "Let us think of Mary, for she is that unspeakable virgin, that glorious lady, who conceived and brought forth, without detriment to her virginity, Him whom the width of the heavens cannot contain.";<br /> maxim[8][16] = "The true servant of God acknowledges no other country but heaven.";<br /> maxim[8][17] = "When God infuses extraordinary sweetness into the soul, a man ought to prepare for some serious tribulation or temptation.";<br /> maxim[8][18] = "When we experience extraordinary sweetness, we ought to ask of God fortitude to bear whatever He may please to send us, and then to stand very much upon our guard, because there is danger of sin behind.";<br /> maxim[8][19] = "One of the most excellent means of obtaining perseverance is discretion; we must not wish to do everything at once, or become a saint in four days.";<br /> maxim[8][20] = "In our clothes we ought, like St. Bernard, to love poverty, but not filthiness.";<br /> maxim[8][21] = "He who wishes to advance in spirituality should never slur over his defects negligently without a particular examination of conscience, even independent of the time of sacramental confession.";<br /> maxim[8][22] = "A man should not so attach himself to the means as to forget the end; neither must we give ourselves so much to mortify the flesh as to forget to mortify the mind, which is the chief thing after all.";<br /> maxim[8][23] = "We ought to desire the virtues of prelates, cardinals, and popes, but not their dignities.";<br /> maxim[8][24] = "The skin of self-love is fastened strongly on our hearts, and it hurts us to flay it off; the more we get down to the quick, the more keen and difficult it is.";<br /> maxim[8][25] = "This first step, which we ought to have taken of ourselves already, we have always in our mind, yet never put it in execution.";<br /> maxim[8][26] = "A man ought to set about putting his good resolutions in practice, and not change them lightly.";<br /> maxim[8][27] = "We must not omit our ordinary devotions such as such as going to confession on our fixed days or hearing mass on week-days for every trifling occasion that may get in the way; if we wish to go for a walk or anything of that sort, let us first make our confession and perform our usual spiritual exercises first, and then pursue the less important activities.";<br /> maxim[8][28] = "It is very useful for those who minister the word of God, or give themselves up to prayer, to read the works of authors whose names begin with S, such as <i> Saint</i> Augustine, <i> Saint </i> Bernard, etc.";<br /> maxim[8][29] = "Nothing more glorious can happen to a Christian than to suffer for Christ.";<br /> maxim[8][30] = "There is no surer or clearer proof of the love of God than adversity.";<br /> maxim[8][31] = "When God intends to grant a man any particular virtue, it is His way to let him be tempted to the opposite vice.";<br /> <br /> maxim[9]=new Array();<br /> maxim[9][1] = "Persons who live in the world should persevere in coming to church to hear sermons, and remember to read spiritual books, especially the Lives of the Saints.";<br /> maxim[9][2] = "When temptation comes, a man should remember the sweetness he has had in prayer at other times, and he will thus easily master the temptation.";<br /> maxim[9][3] = "The fervor of spirituality is usually very great in the beginning, but afterwards, the Lord <i> fingit se longius ire</i>, \"makes as though He would go farther\" (Lk 24:28): in such a case we must stand firm and not be disturbed, because God is then withdrawing His most holy Hand of sweetness to see if we are strong; and then, if we resist and overcome those tribulations and temptations, the sweetness and heavenly consolations return.";<br /> maxim[9][4] = "We ought to apply ourselves to the acquisition of virtue, because in the end the whole terminates in greater sweetness than before, and the Lord gives us back all our favors and consolations doubled.";<br /> maxim[9][5] = "It is easy to infuse a most fervent devotion into others, even in a short time, but the great matter is to persevere.";<br /> maxim[9][6] = "He who continues in anger, strife, and a bitter spirit has a taste of the air of hell.";<br /> maxim[9][7] = "To obtain the protection of our Blessed Lady in our most urgent wants, it is very useful to say sixty-three times, after the fashion of a Rosary, “Virgin Mary, Mother of God, pray to Jesus for me.”";<br /> maxim[9][8] = "When we make this prayer to our Blessed Lady — <i>“Virgin Mary, Mother of God, pray to Jesus for me”</i> — we give her every possible praise in the least possible compass, because we call her by her name of Mary, and give her those two great titles of Virgin, and Mother of God, and then name Jesus, the fruit of her most pure womb.";<br /> maxim[9][9] = "The things of this world do not remain constantly with us, for if we do not leave them before we actually die, in death at least we all infallibly depart as empty-handed as we came.";<br /> maxim[9][10] = "To pray well requires the whole man.";<br /> maxim[9][11] = "The discipline and other like things ought not to be practiced without the leave of our confessor; he who does it of his own mind will either hurt his constitution or become proud, fancying to himself that he has done some great thing.";<br /> maxim[9][12] = "God takes especial delight in the humility of a man who believes that he has not yet begun to do any good.";<br /> maxim[9][13] = "Before going to confession or taking counsel with our director, it will be very useful to pray for a sincere good will to become a really holy man.";<br /> maxim[9][14] = "He who runs away from one cross will meet a bigger one on his road.";<br /> maxim[9][15] = "Christ died for sinners; we must take heart, therefore, and hope that Paradise will be ours, provided only we repent of our sins, and do good.";<br /> maxim[9][16] = "Never let a sick man set himself to reason with the devil, otherwise he will inevitably be taken in; let him appeal to his spiritual father, of whom the devil stands in mortal fear.";<br /> maxim[9][17] = "He who serves God must do the best he can not to receive the reward of his labors in this world.";<br /> maxim[9][18] = "In giving alms to the poor we must act as good ministers of the Providence of God.";<br /> maxim[9][19] = "He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him should not wish to observe additional voluntary fasts, but to give alms.";<br /> maxim[9][20] = "Perfection cannot be attained without the greatest toil.";<br /> maxim[9][21] = "As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.";<br /> maxim[9][22] = "Even in the midst of the crowd, we can make progress toward perfection.";<br /> maxim[9][23] = "Not everything that is better in itself is better for each man in particular.";<br /> maxim[9][24] = "Be devout to the Madonna, keep yourself from sin, and God will deliver you from your evils.";<br /> maxim[9][25] = "If we wish to keep peace with our neighbors, we should never remind them of their natural defects.";<br /> maxim[9][26] = "We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have against our own will to bear with natural defects in ourselves.";<br /> maxim[9][27] = "Men of rank ought to dress like their equals, and be accompanied by servants, as their state requires, but modesty should go along with it all.";<br /> maxim[9][28] = "We should not be quick to correct others, but should rather strive to correct ourselves first.";<br /> maxim[9][29] = "Let us think, if we only get to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, <i> Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus. </i>";<br /> maxim[9][30] = "The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.";<br /> <br /> maxim[10]=new Array();<br /> maxim[10][1] = "In passing from a bad state to a good one there is no need of counsel, but in passing from a good one to a better, time, counsel, and prayer must go into the decision.";<br /> maxim[10][2] = "We must continually pray to God for the conversion of sinners, thinking of the joy there is in heaven both to God and the angels in the conversion of each separate sinner.";<br /> maxim[10][3] = "To speak of ourselves without cause, saying, “I have said,” “I have done,” incapacitates us for receiving spiritual consolations. ";<br /> maxim[10][4] = "We ought to desire to be in such a condition as to want sixpence, but not be able to get it.";<br /> maxim[10][5] = "Let us despise gold, silver, jewels, and all that the blind and cheated world vainly and ignorantly prizes.";<br /> maxim[10][6] = "Let us learn here below to give God the confession of praise that we ought to hope to give Him in heaven above.";<br /> maxim[10][7] = "He who wishes to go to Paradise must be an honest man and a good Christian, and not give heed to dreams.";<br /> maxim[10][8] = "Fathers and mothers of families should bring up their children virtuously, looking at them as God's children rather than their own; [they should bring up their children] to count life and health and all they possess as loans from God.";<br /> maxim[10][9] = "In saying the Our Father, we ought to reflect that we have God for our Father in heaven, and so on, meditating on the prayer word-by-word.";<br /> maxim[10][10] = "To make ourselves disaffected to the things of the world, it is a good thing to think seriously of the end of them, saying to ourselves,<i> “And then? And then?”</i>";<br /> maxim[10][11] = "The devil, who is a most haughty spirit, is never more completely mastered than by humility of heart, and a simple, clear, undisguised manifestation of our sins and temptations to our confessor.";<br /> maxim[10][12] = "We ought not ordinarily to believe prophecies or to desire them, because it is possible there may be many deceits and snares of the devil therein.";<br /> maxim[10][13] = "It is a most useful thing, when we see another doing any spiritual good to his neighbor, to seek by prayer to have a part in that same good that the Lord is working by the hand of another.";<br /> maxim[10][14] = "At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.";<br /> maxim[10][15] = "To him who truly loves God, nothing more displeasing can happen than the lack of occasion to suffer for Him.";<br /> maxim[10][16] = "We ought to hate no one, for God never comes where there is no love of our neighbors.";<br /> maxim[10][17] = "We must accept our own death and that of our relations when God shall send it to us, and not desire it at any other time; for it is sometimes necessary that it should happen at that particular moment for the good of our own and their souls.";<br /> maxim[10][18] = "The perfection of a Christian consists in knowing how to mortify himself for the love of Christ.";<br /> maxim[10][19] = "He who desires ecstasies and visions does not know what he is desiring.";<br /> maxim[10][20] = "As for those who run after visions, dreams, and the like, we must lay hold of them by the feet and pull them to the ground by force, lest they should fall into the devil's net.";<br /> maxim[10][21] = "According to the rules of the fathers and ancient monks, whoever wishes to advance in perfection must hold the world in contempt.";<br /> maxim[10][22] = "There is nothing more displeasing to God than our being inflated with self-esteem.";<br /> maxim[10][23] = "When a man knows how to break down his own will and to deny his soul what it desires, he has got a good degree in virtue.";<br /> maxim[10][24] = "When a man falls into any bodily infirmity, as he lies in bed recuperating, he must think and say, “God has sent me this sickness because He wishes something of me; I must therefore make up my mind to change my life and become better.”";<br /> maxim[10][25] = "When a man has a tribulation sent him from God and is impatient, we may say to him, “You are not worthy that God should visit you; you do not deserve so great a good.”";<br /> maxim[10][26] = "Poverty and tribulations are given us by God as trials of our fidelity and virtue, as well as to enrich us with more real and lasting riches in heaven.";<br /> maxim[10][27] = "Scruples ought to be most carefully avoided because they disquiet the mind and make a man melancholy.";<br /> maxim[10][28] = "Let us throw ourselves into the arms of God and be sure that if He wishes anything of us, He will make us capable of doing all He desires us to do for Him.";<br /> maxim[10][29] = "Nothing helps a man more than prayer.";<br /> maxim[10][30] = "Idleness is a pestilence to a Christian man; we ought always therefore to be doing something, especially when we are alone in our rooms, lest the devil should come in and catch us idle.";<br /> maxim[10][31] = "We ought always to be afraid, and should never put any confidence in ourselves; for the devil assaults us on a sudden, and darkens our understanding, and he who does not live in fear is overcome in a moment because he does not have the help of the Lord.";<br /> <br /> maxim[11]=new Array();<br /> maxim[11][1] = "The great thing is to become saints.";<br /> maxim[11][2] = "In order to enter Paradise we must be well justified and well purified.";<br /> maxim[11][3] = "Let the young man look after the flesh, and the old man after avarice, and we shall all be saints together.";<br /> maxim[11][4] = "Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.";<br /> maxim[11][5] = "The sanctity of a man lies in mortifying the understanding, which is all too ready to reason upon things.";<br /> maxim[11][6] = "He who really wishes to become a saint must never defend himself, except in a few rare cases, but always acknowledge himself in fault, even when what is alleged against him is untrue.";<br /> maxim[11][7] = "What we know of the virtues of the saints is the least part of them.";<br /> maxim[11][8] = "The relics of the saints ought to be venerated, and we may laudably keep them in our room; but it is not well, unless for some grave occasion, to wear them, because it often happens that they are not treated with all the respect that they deserve in those circumstances.";<br /> maxim[11][9] = "The old patriarchs possessed riches, and had wives and children, but they lived without defiling their affections with these things, although they possessed them, because they only allowed themselves the use of them, and were ready to abandon them in whatever way the Majesty of God might require of them.";<br /> maxim[11][10] = "We ought to pray earnestly that God will increase the light and heat of his goodness in us every day.";<br /> maxim[11][11] = "It is an old custom with the servants of God always to have some short prayers ready, and to send them up to heaven frequently during the day, lifting their minds to God from out of the filth of this world. He who adopts this plan will get great fruit with little pains.";<br /> maxim[11][12] = "Tribulations, if we bear them patiently for the love of God, appear bitter at first, but they grow sweet when one gets accustomed to the taste.";<br /> maxim[11][13] = "The man who loves God with a true heart, and prizes him above all things, sometimes sheds floods of tears at prayer, and has an abundance of favors and spiritual feelings coming upon him with such vehemence, that he is forced to cry out, “Lord! let me be quiet!”";<br /> maxim[11][14] = "But a man ought not to seek for these gifts of sweetness and sensible devotions forcibly, for he will be easily deluded by the devil, and will run a risk of injuring his health.";<br /> maxim[11][15] = "When the soul lies resignedly in the hands of God, and is contented with the divine pleasure, it is in good hands, and has the best security that good will happen to it.";<br /> maxim[11][16] = "To be entirely conformed and resigned to the Divine Will is truly a road on which we cannot go wrong, and is the only road that leads us to taste and enjoy that peace of which sensual and earthly men know nothing.";<br /> maxim[11][17] = "Resignation is all in all to the sick man; he ought to say to God, “Lord, if You want me, here I am, although I have never done any good: do with me what You will.”";<br /> maxim[11][18] = "Never make a noise of any sort in church, except for the greatest necessity.";<br /> maxim[11][19] = "Patience is necessary for the servant of God; we must not be distressed at trouble, but wait for consolation.";<br /> maxim[11][20] = "When lay faithful have once chosen not to pursue priestly or religious life, let them persevere in their secular pursuits, in the devout spiritual exercises that they have begun, and in their works of charity — then they shall have contentment at their death.";<br /> maxim[11][21] = "The vocation to the religious life is one of the great benefits that the Mother of God obtains from her Son for those who are devoted to her.";<br /> maxim[11][22] = "There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.";<br /> maxim[11][23] = "Among the things we ought to ask of God is perseverance in well-doing and in serving the Lord; for if we only have patience, and persevere in the good life we have begun to lead, we shall acquire a most eminent degree of spirituality.";<br /> maxim[11][24] = "He is perfect in the school of Christ who despises being despised, rejoices in self-contempt, and accounts himself to be truly nothing.";<br /> maxim[11][25] = "The way that God takes with the souls that love Him — allowing them to be tempted and to fall into tribulations — is a true espousal between Himself and them.";<br /> maxim[11][26] = "In temptations of the flesh, a Christian ought to have immediate recourse to God, make the sign of the cross over his heart three times, and say, “Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.”";<br /> maxim[11][27] = "As to temptations, some are mastered by flying from them, some by resisting them, and some by despising them.";<br /> maxim[11][28] = "In order to acquire prudence, and to make a good judgment, we must have lived long and been intimate with many people.";<br /> maxim[11][29] = "It is a great perfection in a heart when it is discreet and does not overstep the limits of what is appropriate and fitting.";<br /> maxim[11][30] = "We must seek Christ where Christ is not, that is, in crosses and tribulations, which He is truly not enduring now, but we shall find Him in glory by this road.";<br /> <br /> maxim[12]=new Array();<br /> maxim[12][1] = "Frequent confession is the cause of great good to the soul because it purifies it, heals it, and confirms it in the service of God: we ought not therefore to omit confession on our fixed days for any business whatsoever, but should go to confession first and to business afterwards, and the first will help the last.";<br /> maxim[12][2] = "When we go to confession, we ought to persuade ourselves to find Jesus Christ in the person of our confessor.";<br /> maxim[12][3] = "Give me ten men really detached from the world, and I have the heart to believe I could convert the world with them.";<br /> maxim[12][4] = "He who communicates often, as he ought to do, brings forth good fruit, the fruit of humility, the fruit of patience, the fruit of all the virtues.";<br /> maxim[12][5] = "Penitents ought not to go to confession for temporal ends, to get alms and the like.";<br /> maxim[12][6] = "We ought to make no account of an immodest person, notwithstanding that he may possess other virtues.";<br /> maxim[12][7] = "The Holy Spirit says of prelates and pastors, “He who hears and obeys his superiors, hears and obeys Me, and he who despises them, despises and disobeys Me.”";<br /> maxim[12][8] = "If the servant of God wishes to walk with more security through so many snares scattered in every place, he should have our Blessed Lady as his mediatrix with her Son.";<br /> maxim[12][9] = "The sick man may desire to get well, provided he seals his desire by praying, “If it please God,” “If it is good for my soul;” for we can do many good things in health that sickness hinders us from doing.";<br /> maxim[12][10] = "In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.";<br /> maxim[12][11] = "The mole is a blind rat that always stays in the ground; it eats earth, and hollows it out, but is never satisfied with it — so, too, the avaricious person.";<br /> maxim[12][12] = "Penitents should never make vows without the advice of their spiritual fathers.";<br /> maxim[12][13] = "If we do make such vows, it is best to make them conditionally: for example, “I make a vow to have two masses said on St. Lucy's day, with the reservation, &#39;If I can, if I do not forget it,&#39; because if I do not remember it, I do not wish to be bound.”";<br /> maxim[12][14] = "When a man has to buy anything, he ought not to do so because he is moved by an attachment to the thing, but from want and necessity; for it will never do to act out of a disordered desire for the thing.";<br /> maxim[12][15] = "Certain little voluntary attachments of self-love must be cut through, and then we must dig round them, and then remove the earth, till we get down deep enough to find the place where they are rooted and interlaced together.";<br /> maxim[12][16] = "A man must be ready to endure when he is mortified by others who are acting with a virtuous motive, and even when God permits him to be in such bad odor with others that he is regarded and driven away as an infected sheep.";<br /> maxim[12][17] = "Our enemy the devil, who fights with us in order to vanquish us, seeks to disunite us in our houses and to breed quarrels, dislikes, contests, and rivalries, because while we are fighting with each other, he comes and conquers us, and makes us more securely his own.";<br /> maxim[12][18] = "He who does not think on the benefits he receives from God in this life and on those greater ones his mercy has prepared in that other life of bliss does not nourish love for God, but chills and freezes it.";<br /> maxim[12][19] = "If a soul could altogether abstain from venial sins, the greatest pain it could have would be to be detained in this life, so great would its desire be of union with God.";<br /> maxim[12][20] = "In the persecutions that bad men excite against piety and devotion, we must keep our eyes on God, whom we serve, and on the testimony of a good conscience."; <br /> maxim[12][21] = "How patiently Christ, the King and Lord of heaven and earth, bore with the apostles, enduring at their hands much incivility and misunderstanding, they being but poor and rough fishermen! How much more ought we to bear with our neighbors when they are uncivil.";<br /> maxim[12][22] = "We must give ourselves to God altogether.";<br /> maxim[12][23] = "God makes all his own the soul that is wholly given to him.";<br /> maxim[12][24] = "It is as a general rule a bad sign when a man has not a particular feeling of devotion on the chief feasts of the year.";<br /> maxim[12][25] = "Let us reflect that the Word left heaven and stooped to become man for us.";<br /> maxim[12][26] = "Besides pardoning those who persecute us, we ought to feel pity for the delusion they are laboring under.";<br /> maxim[12][27] = "To one who really loves God, there is nothing more harassing or burdensome than life.";<br /> maxim[12][28] = "Let young men be cheerful and indulge in the recreations proper to their age, provided they keep out of the way of sin.";<br /> maxim[12][29] = "Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.";<br /> maxim[12][30] = "All created things share themselves freely and show the goodness of the Creator: the sun scatters its light, the fire its heat; the tree throws out its arms, which are its branches, and reaches to us the fruit it bears; water, and air, and all things in nature express the generosity of the Creator. 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Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=Easter&diff=21627 Easter 2026-04-11T08:50:22Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Calculating the year of the death and resurrection of Jesus */</p> <hr /> <div>[[File:Resurrection (24).jpg|right]]<br /> == Date of Easter ==<br /> The [[Date of Jesus' Death|year in which Jesus died]] is uncertain.<br /> <br /> All accounts agree that it was at or near the time of [[Jewish Liturgical Year|Passover.]]<br /> <br /> There is no universal date for the celebration of Easter among all Christians.<br /> <br /> "The canonical rule is that Easter day is the first Sunday after the 14th day of the lunar month (the nominal full moon) that falls on or after 21 March (nominally the day of the vernal equinox). For determining the feast, Christian churches settled on a method to define a reckoned 'ecclesiastical' full moon, rather than observations of the true Moon. [[Eastern Orthodox|Eastern Orthodox Christians]] calculate the fixed date of 21 March according to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar Julian Calendar] rather than the modern [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar Gregorian Calendar], and use an ecclesiastical full moon that occurs four to five days later than the western ecclesiastical full moon."[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computus]<br /> <br /> * The earliest possible date for Easter is March 22.<br /> * The latest possible date for Easter is April 25.<br /> <br /> == Easter Season ==<br /> * From Easter to [[Pentecost]]: ''a week of weeks'' (7 x 7 = 49, plus 1 = 50)<br /> {|{{Prettytable}}<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> |'''Sun'''<br /> |'''Easter Sunday'''<br>1<br /> |'''[[Divine_Mercy|Mercy Sunday]]'''<br>8<br /> |'''3rd Sunday'''<br>15<br /> |'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Shepherd_Sunday Good Shepherd Sunday]'''<br>22<br /> |'''5th Sunday'''<br>29<br /> |'''6th Sunday'''<br>36<br /> |'''7th Sunday'''<br>43<br /> |'''[[Pentecost]]'''<br>50<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> !Mon<br /> |2<br /> |9<br /> |16<br /> |23<br /> |30<br /> |37<br /> |44<br /> |<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> !Tue<br /> |3<br /> |10<br /> |17<br /> |24<br /> |31<br /> |38<br /> |45<br /> |<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> !Wed<br /> |4<br /> |11<br /> |18<br /> |25<br /> |32<br /> |39<br /> |46<br /> |<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> !Thu<br /> |5<br /> |12<br /> |19<br /> |26<br /> |33<br /> |'''Ascension'''<br /> |47<br /> |<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> !Fri<br /> |6<br /> |13<br /> |20<br /> |27<br /> |34<br /> |41<br /> |48<br /> |<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> !Sat<br /> |7<br /> |14<br /> |21<br /> |28<br /> |35<br /> |42<br /> |49<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> * Be mindful of Jesus' resurrection.<br /> * Light some Easter candles.<br /> * Pray for the outpouring of the spirit on [[Pentecost]].<br /> ** [[Gifts and fruits of the Spirit]].<br /> <br /> == Easter Week ==<br /> For Eastern Christians, Easter Sunday is called "'''the Great Sunday'''," and the seven days that follow are "'''Bright Week'''" or "'''Renewal Week'''." [[Divine Mercy Sunday]], for them, is "'''New Sunday'''" or "'''Thomas Sunday'''." From a seventh-century eastern council:<br /> :: "From the holy day of the Resurrection of Christ our God until New Sunday (i.e. Thomas Sunday) for a whole week the faithful in the holy churches should continually be repeating psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, rejoicing and celebrating Christ, and attending to the reading of the Divine Scriptures and delighting in the Holy Mysteries. For in this way shall we be exalted with Christ; raised up together with Him. For this reason on the aforesaid days that by no means there be any horse races or any other public spectacle."<br /> <br /> During all of Bright Week the Holy Doors on the ''Iconostasis'' are kept open — the only time of the year when this occurs. The open doors represent the stone rolled away from the Tomb of Christ, and the ''Epitaphios'' (Slavonic: ''Plashchanitza''), representing the burial cloths, is visible through them on the Holy Table (altar). The doors of the ''Iconostasis'' are closed before the Ninth Hour on the eve of Thomas Sunday. <br /> <br /> The East treats the week like seven Easter Sundays. In the West, we count eight days as '''Easter Week''', including Divine Mercy Sunday in our liturgy.<br /> <br /> == A Season of Mercy ==<br /> The Second Sunday of Easter has been named [[Divine Mercy|"Divine Mercy Sunday."]] In the light of this feast, we can see that God's action in raising Jesus from the dead is an act of mercy for the whole world.<br /> <br /> == A Season of Mystagogia ==<br /> [[Mystagogia]] means "instruction in the mysteries of the faith." After Baptism, the new Christians are schooled in the creed of the Church.<br /> <br /> == Good Shepherd Sunday ==<br /> The fourth Sunday of Easter is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Shepherd_Sunday "Good Shepherd Sunday,"] when John 10 is used for the gospel.<br /> <br /> It is a traditional day to pray for vocations.<br /> <br /> == The Gospel of the Holy Spirit ==<br /> The Acts of the Apostles is read sequentially on the weekdays of the Easter Season — cover to cover. Dr. Peter Kreeft calls Acts "the gospel of the Holy Spirit."<br /> <br /> == Calculating the year of the death and resurrection of Jesus ==<br /> <br /> :; [https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/the-biggest-april-fool-of-all-time Jimmy Akin, "The Biggest April Fool of All Time", ''Catholic Answers'']<br /> <br /> :: Caiphas, high priest between 18 and 36 AD.<br /> :: Pontius Pilate, Roman governor of Judea between 26 and 36 AD.<br /> :: Fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar: 29 AD (beginning of John the Baptist's ministry, Lk 3:1).<br /> :: Jesus public ministry must have taken place between 29 and 36 AD.<br /> :: Akin believes that Jesus was crucified on the day of Passover. Only two years have Passover on a Friday, 30 and 33 AD.<br /> :: John describes a two- or three-year ministry, so 30 AD is out, leaving us with 33 AD.<br /> :: Julian dates: Good Friday on April 3 and Easter on April 5.<br /> :: Gregorian dates: Good Friday on April 1 and Easter on April 3.<br /> <br /> <br /> I asked grok whether Jesus died on the day of Passover.<br /> <br /> [https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMg_a4384523-e99a-41ef-b0fa-c0f31292c35d Grok says] that the [[The Four Gospels|synoptic gospels (Mt, Mk, Lk)]] portray the Last Supper as the Passover meal, which means that Jesus dies on Nisan 15, while John 13:1, 18:28, and 19:14 describe it as occurring before Passover. This would be Nisan 14.<br /> <br /> If we agree that Jesus died on a Friday, then the synoptics disagree with John about which evening was the Passover meal in our naming system. The synoptics say Thursday while John says Friday. For the synoptics, Jesus died on the day of Passover. For John, Jesus died during the time when the lambs were being slain in preparation for the Passover meal that evening.<br /> <br /> [[Category: Liturgical Year]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=Easter&diff=21626 Easter 2026-04-11T08:41:32Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Calculating the year of the death and resurrection of Jesus */</p> <hr /> <div>[[File:Resurrection (24).jpg|right]]<br /> == Date of Easter ==<br /> The [[Date of Jesus' Death|year in which Jesus died]] is uncertain.<br /> <br /> All accounts agree that it was at or near the time of [[Jewish Liturgical Year|Passover.]]<br /> <br /> There is no universal date for the celebration of Easter among all Christians.<br /> <br /> "The canonical rule is that Easter day is the first Sunday after the 14th day of the lunar month (the nominal full moon) that falls on or after 21 March (nominally the day of the vernal equinox). For determining the feast, Christian churches settled on a method to define a reckoned 'ecclesiastical' full moon, rather than observations of the true Moon. [[Eastern Orthodox|Eastern Orthodox Christians]] calculate the fixed date of 21 March according to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar Julian Calendar] rather than the modern [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar Gregorian Calendar], and use an ecclesiastical full moon that occurs four to five days later than the western ecclesiastical full moon."[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computus]<br /> <br /> * The earliest possible date for Easter is March 22.<br /> * The latest possible date for Easter is April 25.<br /> <br /> == Easter Season ==<br /> * From Easter to [[Pentecost]]: ''a week of weeks'' (7 x 7 = 49, plus 1 = 50)<br /> {|{{Prettytable}}<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> |'''Sun'''<br /> |'''Easter Sunday'''<br>1<br /> |'''[[Divine_Mercy|Mercy Sunday]]'''<br>8<br /> |'''3rd Sunday'''<br>15<br /> |'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Shepherd_Sunday Good Shepherd Sunday]'''<br>22<br /> |'''5th Sunday'''<br>29<br /> |'''6th Sunday'''<br>36<br /> |'''7th Sunday'''<br>43<br /> |'''[[Pentecost]]'''<br>50<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> !Mon<br /> |2<br /> |9<br /> |16<br /> |23<br /> |30<br /> |37<br /> |44<br /> |<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> !Tue<br /> |3<br /> |10<br /> |17<br /> |24<br /> |31<br /> |38<br /> |45<br /> |<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> !Wed<br /> |4<br /> |11<br /> |18<br /> |25<br /> |32<br /> |39<br /> |46<br /> |<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> !Thu<br /> |5<br /> |12<br /> |19<br /> |26<br /> |33<br /> |'''Ascension'''<br /> |47<br /> |<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> !Fri<br /> |6<br /> |13<br /> |20<br /> |27<br /> |34<br /> |41<br /> |48<br /> |<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> !Sat<br /> |7<br /> |14<br /> |21<br /> |28<br /> |35<br /> |42<br /> |49<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> * Be mindful of Jesus' resurrection.<br /> * Light some Easter candles.<br /> * Pray for the outpouring of the spirit on [[Pentecost]].<br /> ** [[Gifts and fruits of the Spirit]].<br /> <br /> == Easter Week ==<br /> For Eastern Christians, Easter Sunday is called "'''the Great Sunday'''," and the seven days that follow are "'''Bright Week'''" or "'''Renewal Week'''." [[Divine Mercy Sunday]], for them, is "'''New Sunday'''" or "'''Thomas Sunday'''." From a seventh-century eastern council:<br /> :: "From the holy day of the Resurrection of Christ our God until New Sunday (i.e. Thomas Sunday) for a whole week the faithful in the holy churches should continually be repeating psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, rejoicing and celebrating Christ, and attending to the reading of the Divine Scriptures and delighting in the Holy Mysteries. For in this way shall we be exalted with Christ; raised up together with Him. For this reason on the aforesaid days that by no means there be any horse races or any other public spectacle."<br /> <br /> During all of Bright Week the Holy Doors on the ''Iconostasis'' are kept open — the only time of the year when this occurs. The open doors represent the stone rolled away from the Tomb of Christ, and the ''Epitaphios'' (Slavonic: ''Plashchanitza''), representing the burial cloths, is visible through them on the Holy Table (altar). The doors of the ''Iconostasis'' are closed before the Ninth Hour on the eve of Thomas Sunday. <br /> <br /> The East treats the week like seven Easter Sundays. In the West, we count eight days as '''Easter Week''', including Divine Mercy Sunday in our liturgy.<br /> <br /> == A Season of Mercy ==<br /> The Second Sunday of Easter has been named [[Divine Mercy|"Divine Mercy Sunday."]] In the light of this feast, we can see that God's action in raising Jesus from the dead is an act of mercy for the whole world.<br /> <br /> == A Season of Mystagogia ==<br /> [[Mystagogia]] means "instruction in the mysteries of the faith." After Baptism, the new Christians are schooled in the creed of the Church.<br /> <br /> == Good Shepherd Sunday ==<br /> The fourth Sunday of Easter is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Shepherd_Sunday "Good Shepherd Sunday,"] when John 10 is used for the gospel.<br /> <br /> It is a traditional day to pray for vocations.<br /> <br /> == The Gospel of the Holy Spirit ==<br /> The Acts of the Apostles is read sequentially on the weekdays of the Easter Season — cover to cover. Dr. Peter Kreeft calls Acts "the gospel of the Holy Spirit."<br /> <br /> == Calculating the year of the death and resurrection of Jesus ==<br /> <br /> :; [https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/the-biggest-april-fool-of-all-time Jimmy Akin, "The Biggest April Fool of All Time", ''Catholic Answers'']<br /> <br /> :: Caiphas, high priest between 18 and 36 AD.<br /> :: Pontius Pilate, Roman governor of Judea between 26 and 36 AD.<br /> :: Fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar: 29 AD (beginning of John the Baptist's ministry, Lk 3:1).<br /> :: Jesus public ministry must have taken place between 29 and 36 AD.<br /> :: Akin believes that Jesus was crucified on the day of Passover. Only two years have Friday on a Passover, 30 and 33 AD.<br /> :: John describes a two- or three-year ministry, so 30 AD is out, leaving us with 33 AD.<br /> :: Julian dates: Good Friday on April 3 and Easter on April 5.<br /> :: Gregorian dates: Good Friday on April 1 and Easter on April 3.<br /> <br /> <br /> I asked grok whether Jesus died on the day of Passover.<br /> <br /> [https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMg_a4384523-e99a-41ef-b0fa-c0f31292c35d Grok says] that the [[The Four Gospels|synoptic gospels (Mt, Mk, Lk)]] portray the Last Supper as the Passover meal while John treats it occurring before Passover.<br /> <br /> [[Category: Liturgical Year]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=Easter&diff=21625 Easter 2026-04-11T08:27:14Z

<p>Mxmsj: </p> <hr /> <div>[[File:Resurrection (24).jpg|right]]<br /> == Date of Easter ==<br /> The [[Date of Jesus' Death|year in which Jesus died]] is uncertain.<br /> <br /> All accounts agree that it was at or near the time of [[Jewish Liturgical Year|Passover.]]<br /> <br /> There is no universal date for the celebration of Easter among all Christians.<br /> <br /> "The canonical rule is that Easter day is the first Sunday after the 14th day of the lunar month (the nominal full moon) that falls on or after 21 March (nominally the day of the vernal equinox). For determining the feast, Christian churches settled on a method to define a reckoned 'ecclesiastical' full moon, rather than observations of the true Moon. [[Eastern Orthodox|Eastern Orthodox Christians]] calculate the fixed date of 21 March according to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar Julian Calendar] rather than the modern [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar Gregorian Calendar], and use an ecclesiastical full moon that occurs four to five days later than the western ecclesiastical full moon."[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computus]<br /> <br /> * The earliest possible date for Easter is March 22.<br /> * The latest possible date for Easter is April 25.<br /> <br /> == Easter Season ==<br /> * From Easter to [[Pentecost]]: ''a week of weeks'' (7 x 7 = 49, plus 1 = 50)<br /> {|{{Prettytable}}<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> |'''Sun'''<br /> |'''Easter Sunday'''<br>1<br /> |'''[[Divine_Mercy|Mercy Sunday]]'''<br>8<br /> |'''3rd Sunday'''<br>15<br /> |'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Shepherd_Sunday Good Shepherd Sunday]'''<br>22<br /> |'''5th Sunday'''<br>29<br /> |'''6th Sunday'''<br>36<br /> |'''7th Sunday'''<br>43<br /> |'''[[Pentecost]]'''<br>50<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> !Mon<br /> |2<br /> |9<br /> |16<br /> |23<br /> |30<br /> |37<br /> |44<br /> |<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> !Tue<br /> |3<br /> |10<br /> |17<br /> |24<br /> |31<br /> |38<br /> |45<br /> |<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> !Wed<br /> |4<br /> |11<br /> |18<br /> |25<br /> |32<br /> |39<br /> |46<br /> |<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> !Thu<br /> |5<br /> |12<br /> |19<br /> |26<br /> |33<br /> |'''Ascension'''<br /> |47<br /> |<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> !Fri<br /> |6<br /> |13<br /> |20<br /> |27<br /> |34<br /> |41<br /> |48<br /> |<br /> |- align = "right"<br /> !Sat<br /> |7<br /> |14<br /> |21<br /> |28<br /> |35<br /> |42<br /> |49<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> * Be mindful of Jesus' resurrection.<br /> * Light some Easter candles.<br /> * Pray for the outpouring of the spirit on [[Pentecost]].<br /> ** [[Gifts and fruits of the Spirit]].<br /> <br /> == Easter Week ==<br /> For Eastern Christians, Easter Sunday is called "'''the Great Sunday'''," and the seven days that follow are "'''Bright Week'''" or "'''Renewal Week'''." [[Divine Mercy Sunday]], for them, is "'''New Sunday'''" or "'''Thomas Sunday'''." From a seventh-century eastern council:<br /> :: "From the holy day of the Resurrection of Christ our God until New Sunday (i.e. Thomas Sunday) for a whole week the faithful in the holy churches should continually be repeating psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, rejoicing and celebrating Christ, and attending to the reading of the Divine Scriptures and delighting in the Holy Mysteries. For in this way shall we be exalted with Christ; raised up together with Him. For this reason on the aforesaid days that by no means there be any horse races or any other public spectacle."<br /> <br /> During all of Bright Week the Holy Doors on the ''Iconostasis'' are kept open — the only time of the year when this occurs. The open doors represent the stone rolled away from the Tomb of Christ, and the ''Epitaphios'' (Slavonic: ''Plashchanitza''), representing the burial cloths, is visible through them on the Holy Table (altar). The doors of the ''Iconostasis'' are closed before the Ninth Hour on the eve of Thomas Sunday. <br /> <br /> The East treats the week like seven Easter Sundays. In the West, we count eight days as '''Easter Week''', including Divine Mercy Sunday in our liturgy.<br /> <br /> == A Season of Mercy ==<br /> The Second Sunday of Easter has been named [[Divine Mercy|"Divine Mercy Sunday."]] In the light of this feast, we can see that God's action in raising Jesus from the dead is an act of mercy for the whole world.<br /> <br /> == A Season of Mystagogia ==<br /> [[Mystagogia]] means "instruction in the mysteries of the faith." After Baptism, the new Christians are schooled in the creed of the Church.<br /> <br /> == Good Shepherd Sunday ==<br /> The fourth Sunday of Easter is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Shepherd_Sunday "Good Shepherd Sunday,"] when John 10 is used for the gospel.<br /> <br /> It is a traditional day to pray for vocations.<br /> <br /> == The Gospel of the Holy Spirit ==<br /> The Acts of the Apostles is read sequentially on the weekdays of the Easter Season — cover to cover. Dr. Peter Kreeft calls Acts "the gospel of the Holy Spirit."<br /> <br /> == Calculating the year of the death and resurrection of Jesus ==<br /> <br /> :; [https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/the-biggest-april-fool-of-all-time Jimmy Akin, "The Biggest April Fool of All Time", ''Catholic Answers'']<br /> <br /> :: Caiphas, high priest between 18 and 36 AD.<br /> :: Pontius Pilate, Roman governor of Judea between 26 and 36 AD.<br /> :: Fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar: 29 AD (beginning of John the Baptist's ministry, Lk 3:1).<br /> :: Jesus public ministry must have taken place between 29 and 36 AD.<br /> :: Akin believes that Jesus was crucified on the day of Passover. Only two years have Friday on a Passover, 30 and 33 AD.<br /> :: John describes a two- or three-year ministry, so 30 AD is out, leaving us with 33 AD.<br /> :: Julian dates: Good Friday on April 3 and Easter on April 5.<br /> :: Gregorian dates: Good Friday on April 1 and Easter on April 3.<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category: Liturgical Year]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=Faith_and_feelings&diff=21624 Faith and feelings 2026-03-13T06:28:33Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Action Erodes Depression */</p> <hr /> <div>== Feelings are part of our nature ==<br /> God designed us to be moved from within by our emotions. In order for us to act, we have to ''want'' to act.<br /> <br /> The authors of ''Star Trek'' fantasized that the ideal human being would be a Vulcan, a person without any emotions at all. It is conceivable that this is what angels are like, although I have not met enough angels in person to feel confident that I know anything about angelic psychology. It may well be that their emotions are stronger, purer, and more powerful than ours ''because'' the good angels are free from the consequences of [[Original Sin]] and do not have the kind of unconscious that humans do.<br /> <br /> I do know what humans are like. As a general rule, we do not have angelic knowledge of God, other spiritual beings, or even ourselves. Our feelings help to inform us about the interior and exterior world.<br /> <br /> === Catechism ===<br /> <br /> ; [http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s1c1a5.htm ''Catechism of the Catholic Church,'' #1762-#1775.]<br /> <br /> :; The Morality of the Passions<br /> <br /> :; 1762<br /> <br /> :: The human person is ordered to beatitude by his deliberate acts: the passions or feelings he experiences can dispose him to it and contribute to it.<br /> <br /> ==== I. Passions ====<br /> <br /> :; 1763<br /> <br /> :: The term "passions" belongs to the Christian patrimony. Feelings or passions are emotions or movements of the sensitive appetite that incline us to act or not to act in regard to something felt or imagined to be good or evil.<br /> <br /> :; 1764<br /> <br /> :: The passions are natural components of the human psyche; they form the passageway and ensure the connection between the life of the senses and the life of the mind. Our Lord called man's heart the source from which the passions spring.<ref>Cf. Mk 7:21. "From within people, from their hearts, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly. All these evils come from within and they defile” [http://usccb.org/bible/mark/7:19 (Mk 7:21-23).]</ref><br /> <br /> :; 1765<br /> <br /> :: There are many passions. The most fundamental passion is love, aroused by the attraction of the good. Love causes a desire for the absent good and the hope of obtaining it; this movement finds completion in the pleasure and joy of the good possessed. The apprehension of evil causes hatred, aversion, and fear of the impending evil; this movement ends in sadness at some present evil, or in the anger that resists it.<br /> <br /> :; 1766<br /> <br /> :: "To love is to will the good of another."<ref>St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I-II,26 4, corp. art.</ref> All other affections have their source in this first movement of the human heart toward the good. Only the good can be loved.<ref>Cf. St. Augustine, De Trin., 8,3,4:PL 42,949-950.</ref> Passions "are evil if love is evil and good if it is good."<ref>St. Augustine, De civ. Dei 14,7,2:PL 41,410.</ref><br /> <br /> ==== II. Passions and Moral Life ====<br /> <br /> :; 1767<br /> <br /> :: I'''n themselves passions are neither good nor evil'''. They are morally qualified only to the extent that they effectively engage reason and will. Passions are said to be voluntary, "either because they are commanded by the will or because the will does not place obstacles in their way."<ref>St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I-II,24,1 corp. art.</ref> It belongs to the perfection of the moral or human good that the passions be governed by reason.<ref>Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I-II,24,3.</ref><br /> <br /> :; 1768<br /> <br /> :: Strong feelings are not decisive for the morality or the holiness of persons; they are simply the inexhaustible reservoir of images and affections in which the moral life is expressed. Passions are morally good when they contribute to a good action, evil in the opposite case. The upright will orders the movements of the senses it appropriates to the good and to beatitude; an evil will succumbs to disordered passions and exacerbates them. Emotions and feelings can be taken up into the virtues or perverted by the vices.<br /> <br /> :; 1769<br /> <br /> :: In the Christian life, the Holy Spirit himself accomplishes his work by mobilizing the whole being, with all its sorrows, fears and sadness, as is visible in the Lord's agony and passion. In Christ human feelings are able to reach their consummation in charity and divine beatitude.<br /> <br /> :; 1770<br /> <br /> :: Moral perfection consists in man's being moved to the good not by his will alone, but also by his sensitive appetite, as in the words of the psalm: "My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God."<ref>Ps 84:2.</ref><br /> <br /> ==== In Brief ====<br /> <br /> :; 1771<br /> <br /> :: The term "passions" refers to the affections or the feelings. By his emotions man intuits the good and suspects evil.<br /> <br /> :; 1772<br /> <br /> :: The principal passions are love and hatred, desire and fear, joy, sadness, and anger.<br /> <br /> :; 1773<br /> <br /> :: In the passions, as movements of the sensitive appetite, there is neither moral good nor evil. But insofar as they engage reason and will, there is moral good or evil in them.<br /> <br /> :; 1774<br /> <br /> :: Emotions and feelings can be taken up in the virtues or perverted by the vices.<br /> <br /> :; 1775<br /> <br /> :: The perfection of the moral good consists in man's being moved to the good not only by his will but also by his "heart."<br /> <br /> == Feelings are meant to be felt ==<br /> <br /> Feelings are neither right nor wrong. They just are.<br /> <br /> I am not a good person when I have "good" feelings.<br /> <br /> I am not a bad person when I have "bad" feelings.<br /> <br /> God judges us on our behavior, not our moods.<br /> <br /> Feelings are not moral choices. If I had power over my moods, I would choose [[Consolation and Desolation|happiness, joy, and the peace that passes understanding all the time.]] I would not touch that dial or ever let it slide away from 100% bliss.<br /> <br /> Some feelings incline us to acts of faith, hope, and love.<br /> <br /> Some feelings incline us to acts of doubt, despair, and self-centeredness.<br /> <br /> In some cases, we should do what we feel like doing; at other times, we need to ''act against'' (Latin, ''agere contra'') our feelings.<br /> <br /> === Feeling tempted is not a sin ===<br /> <br /> "Happy the man who has suffered temptation" (James 1:2).<br /> <br /> "He who has not been tempted, what does he know?" (Sir 34:10).<br /> <br /> Jesus suffered temptations.<br /> <br /> Jesus felt "bad" feelings in His agony and on the Cross.<br /> <br /> Feeling tempted is not the same thing as sinning.<br /> <br /> Of course, if we invite temptation into our hearts — by using pornography, by replaying tapes of past hurts, by nursing grudges, by entertaining thoughts of revenge, etc. — then we are guilty of the sin.<br /> <br /> == RRAA ==<br /> I heard a man give this advice at a Twelve Step meeting one night. The origin almost certainly was from "R2 A2," an acronym used by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Hill Napoleon Hill] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Clement_Stone Clement Stone] that stands for [http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10152792424280445 "Recognize, Relate, Assimilate, Apply."]<ref>I haven't been able to pin down the first use of the acronym, nor am I certain whether it was Hill or Stone who coined it. The acronym appears in many other forms as well: R2A2, R-2 A-2, etc. "RRAA" is what I thought I heard at the meeting and what has stuck with me. I have modified it in some of my notes to RRA/A. The slash represents the turn from accepting my feelings as my feelings to making choices about how to have a good day today.</ref> The terms I use for dealing with feelings differ slightly from the original.<br /> <br /> * '''Recognize''' the feeling. For some of us, this can be hard. At times in my life, it has taken me as many as three days to realize that I was feeling angry at someone. I have heard some people say, "Name it and claim it." This does seem to be good advice about our interior life.<br /> <br /> * '''Reflect''' on the feeling. What does it tell me about myself? What does it reveal about how I see reality? Where is it coming from? What action am I being prompted to take? Is the action wholesome or not? Does it fit into some larger pattern?<br /> <br /> * '''Accept''' the feeling. Denying feelings isn't very helpful. Feelings can be messengers from our subconscious. They have work to do. We can find out what our feelings are saying and we can listen to the message they bring.<br /> <br /> * '''Act.''' Because of [[Original Sin|fallen nature]] and our [[Sin|personal sins]], it often happens that our feelings are unbalanced, irrational, disproportionate, and misleading. We are not victims. We have choices. It may be difficult and an uphill struggle, but the fact of the matter is that we do ''not'' have to do what we feel like doing. We grow in [[virtue]], the power to do the right thing in all circumstances, by habitually making good choices. No matter how strongly I feel inclined to shoplift, the intensity of that feeling does not justify theft. I may and often should [[agere contra|act against]] my spontaneous inclinations and feelings.<br /> <br /> === Feelings come from and produce images ===<br /> <br /> At the foundation of every feeling is some kind of imagery, even if we may not be able to make the image explicit.<br /> <br /> Our feelings are oriented to action, so along with the images that generate the feelings come images of possible courses of action or inaction that we might pursue.<br /> <br /> If I can change the picture, I may be able to change my feelings, or at least reduce the sense of anguish or panic or fear or regret that they stir up in me.<br /> <br /> [https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/stronger-the-broken-places/201712/reframing Reframing works.]<br /> <br /> == Feelings are not infallible ==<br /> <br /> People sometimes think that their feelings are a direct indication of how God views them.<br /> <br /> * "If I feel guilty, then I am guilty. My feelings of guilt prove that God has not and cannot forgive me my sins. If I was forgiven, then I would never feel guilty or ashamed of anything I've already confessed."<br /> * "If I loved God, then I would never feel what I am feeling (proud, greedy, lustful, angry, gluttonous, envious, or lazy). The fact that I am feeling this 'bad' feeling proves that I am not a good person."<br /> * "If God loved me, then I would never be weak, defeated, rejected, or unhappy. But I suffer all these things. Therefore, God does not love me."<br /> <br /> This is insane thinking. We don't have to do this to ourselves. Because we have a fallen human nature, our feelings often run contrary to the reality of God's mercy and love.<br /> <br /> == Faith discloses spiritual realities ==<br /> <br /> Edie Difato used to say, "No matter how I feel about it, two plus two always equals four. Even if I'm in an auto accident and am suffering excruciating pain, two plus two still equals four. In the same way, the love of God poured out for us in Jesus is always real, no matter what we feel."<br /> <br /> == Action erodes depression ==<br /> <br /> [[Perfectionism|Perfectionism breeds depression.]]<br /> <br /> Our emotions are not always subject to reason; our actions should be. Part of the brokenness that comes to us as a consequence of Original Sin is that our feelings do not always reflect reality, especially the reality of God's love for us and our own power to respond to love with love. If we could just dial in good feelings by a simple act of the will, we would — in fact, I'd crank the dial over to "Ecstasy," if I had a dial. "If we had some ham we, could have some ham and eggs, if we had some eggs." <br /> <br /> It is a great joy when our feelings do testify to the love of God and empower us to act freely and graciously in a loving fashion; it is a great sorrow when our feelings block the light and undercut our desire to love.<br /> <br /> We do not have to do what we feel like doing, unless, by God's grace, the feeling corresponds to what is right and just and fitting and helpful for our salvation. When we [[agere contra|act against our inclinations,]] we grow in [[virtue.]] "Virtue is its own reward." When we practice patience, we grow in the power to endure all things; when we practice forgiveness, we grow in the power to forgive all things; when we practice love, we grow in the power to love God and all of His children.<br /> <br /> == Particular kinds of feelings ==<br /> <br /> * [[Anger]]<br /> * [[Depression]]<br /> * [[Lust]]<br /> * [[Guilt]]<br /> * [[Consolation and Desolation]]<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> <references /><br /> <br /> [[Category:Depression]]<br /> [[Category:Discernment of Spirits]]<br /> [[Category:Sin]]<br /> [[Category:Spirituality]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=Christian_anger_management&diff=21623 Christian anger management 2026-03-12T18:45:23Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Paul's anger */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Faith_and_feelings#Feeling_tempted_is_not_a_sin|Do not confuse temptation with sin]].<br /> <br /> In and of itself, anger is just one of [[faith and feelings|many feelings]] that are morally neutral.<br /> <br /> == Don't feel guilty about feeling angry ==<br /> <br /> In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus warns us that anger can lead us astray.<br /> <br /> :; [http://www.usccb.org/bible/mt/5:22 Mt 5:22]<br /> <br /> :: ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι πᾶς ὁ ὀργιζόμενος τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ ἔνοχος ἔσται τῇ κρίσει ὃς δ’ ἂν εἴπῃ τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ Ῥακά ἔνοχος ἔσται τῷ συνεδρίῳ ὃς δ’ ἂν εἴπῃ Μωρέ ἔνοχος ἔσται εἰς τὴν γέενναν τοῦ πυρός<br /> <br /> :: But I say to you, whoever is '''angry''' with his brother will be liable to judgment.<br /> <br /> Jesus did not command us not to ''feel'' angry. ''Feeling'' angry is a natural reaction to the perception that someone is acting unjustly against us or against those whom we love. The moral question is how we act in response to our feelings of anger. <br /> <br /> '''Sin is in the will, not in feelings.''' Jesus commands us not to ''will'' violence toward others. Paul makes this distinction between ''feeling'' and ''choosing'' very clear:<br /> <br /> "Be angry but sin not" [http://www.usccb.org/bible/eph/4:26 (Eph 4:26).]<br /> <br /> :: Ὀργίζεσθε καὶ μὴ ἁμαρτάνετε ὁ ἥλιος μὴ ἐπιδυέτω ἐπὶ [τῷ] παροργισμῷ ὑμῶν<br /> <br /> Jesus Himself ''felt'' angry [[#Jesus.27_anger|(see below),]] but did not sin in doing so.<br /> <br /> <br /> "Anger is just information. But what should I do with it?" (from a friend).<br /> <br /> == Passive aggression is aggression ==<br /> "You have two emotions, silence and rage" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095631/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (''Midnight Run'').]<br /> <br /> == We may identify our enemies — and forgive them! ==<br /> <br /> Difference between suppressed anger (cold rage) and sublimated anger (love of our enemies).<br /> <br /> We are commanded to [[Forgiveness prayer|forgive our enemies.]]<br /> <br /> This does not mean that we condone what they did to us.<br /> <br /> It means that we let go of our natural reaction to their evildoing.<br /> <br /> This requires God's power at work in us. Fortunately, when Jesus commands us to forgive our enemies, He gives us the power to do so.<br /> <br /> The easiest and most natural thing in the world is to hate those who hate us.<br /> <br /> "Hate is a muscle. It grows with use" (John Sack, ''An Eye for an Eye'').<br /> <br /> If we hate our enemies, we will become like them.<br /> <br /> If we hate our enemies, we will become hateful.<br /> <br /> Hate is easy and natural. Love is hard work and supernatural. We cannot obey Jesus' command to love our enemies by operating on our own strength. When Jesus commands us to work miracles like this, He provides the power we need to obey Him.<br /> <br /> "Father, in Jesus' Name, send Your Spirit!"<br /> <br /> == Righteous anger ==<br /> <br /> Those who do not feel angry at evil done to them or to other innocent victims are not healthy human beings.<br /> <br /> The proper response to injustice is anger.<br /> <br /> The purpose of this anger is to motivate the hard work that it takes to act against injustice.<br /> <br /> === Jesus' anger ===<br /> <br /> ==== At His disciples ====<br /> <br /> :; [http://www.usccb.org/bible/mk/3:5 Mk 3:5]<br /> <br /> :: Καὶ περιβλεψάμενος αὐτοὺς μετ’ ὀργῆς συλλυπούμενος* ἐπὶ τῇ πωρώσει τῆς καρδίας αὐτῶν λέγει τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ Ἔκτεινον τὴν χεῖρα (σου) καὶ ἐξέτεινεν καὶ ἀπεκατεστάθη ἡ χεὶρ αὐτοῦ <br /> <br /> :: Looking around at them '''with anger [wrath!]''' and grieved at their hardness of heart, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and his hand was restored.<br /> <br /> :; [http://usccb.org/bible/gal/mk/9:19 Mark 9:19]<br /> <br /> :: He said to them in reply, “O faithless generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you?”<br /> <br /> ==== At Pharisees ====<br /> <br /> :; [http://usccb.org/bible/matthew/23:13 Mt 23:13-36]<br /> <br /> :: There are seven "woes" in this passage.<br /> <br /> <div class="hang"><br /> <sup class="versenum">13</sup> '''Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.''' You lock the kingdom of heaven before human beings. You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">15</sup> '''Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.''' You traverse sea and land to make one convert, and when that happens you make him a child of Gehenna twice as much as yourselves.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">16</sup> '''Woe to you, blind guides,''' who say, ‘If one swears by the temple, it means nothing, but if one swears by the gold of the temple, one is obligated.’<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">17</sup> ''Blind fools, [moroi]''<ref>Jesus literally calls the Pharisees "morons" in spite of His teaching in this same gospel that "whoever says, ‘You fool’ ''[moron],'' will be liable to fiery Gehenna" [http://usccb.org/bible/matthew/5:22 (Mt 5:22).]</ref> which is greater, the gold, or the temple that made the gold sacred?<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">18</sup> And you say, ‘If one swears by the altar, it means nothing, but if one swears by the gift on the altar, one is obligated.’<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">19</sup> ''You blind ones'', which is greater, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">20</sup> One who swears by the altar swears by it and all that is upon it;<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">21</sup> one who swears by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it;<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">22</sup> one who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who is seated on it.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">23</sup> '''Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.''' You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity. [But] these you should have done, without neglecting the others.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">24</sup> [[gnats|''Blind guides,'' who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!]]<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">25</sup> '''Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.''' You cleanse the outside of cup and dish, but inside they are full of plunder and self-indulgence.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">26</sup> ''Blind Pharisee,'' cleanse first the inside of the cup, so that the outside also may be clean.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">27</sup> '''Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.''' You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of filth.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">28</sup> Even so, on the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">29</sup> '''Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.''' You build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the memorials of the righteous,<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">30</sup> and you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have joined them in shedding the prophets’ blood.’<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">31</sup> Thus you bear witness against yourselves that you are the children of those who murdered the prophets;<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">32</sup> now fill up what your ancestors measured out!<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">33</sup> ''You serpents, you brood of vipers,'' how can you flee from the judgment of Gehenna?<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">34</sup> Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">35</sup> so that there may come upon you all the righteous blood shed upon earth, from the righteous blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">36</sup> Amen, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. <br /> </div><br /> <br /> ==== Cleansing the Temple ====<br /> <br /> * [http://www.usccb.org/bible/mt/21:12 Matthew 21:12-13] <br /> * [http://usccb.org/bible/gal/mk/11:15 Mark 11:15-18] <br /> * [http://www.usccb.org/bible/lk/19:45 Luke 19:45-46] <br /> * [http://www.usccb.org/bible/jn/2:13 John 2:13-17]<br /> <br /> ==== Before the high priest ====<br /> <br /> "If I have spoken wrongly," Jesus answered him, "give evidence about the wrong; but if rightly, why do you hit Me?" [http://www.usccb.org/bible/jn/18:23 (Jn 18:23).]<br /> <br /> == Unrighteous anger ==<br /> <br /> Rage is a combination of anger and insecurity.<br /> <br /> It is out of proportion to the injury (allegedly) suffered.<br /> <br /> It breaks relationships.<br /> <br /> It is a sin in and of itself. The sin committed against the person who rages does not justify the rage. <br /> <br /> == Distinguish between assertiveness and aggression ==<br /> <br /> When we assert our rights, we grant the same rights to everyone else.<br /> <br /> When we act aggressively, we deny others the rights that we claim for ourselves.<br /> <br /> Assertiveness is good.<br /> <br /> Aggressiveness is bad.<br /> <br /> == Paul's anger ==<br /> <br /> :; [http://usccb.org/bible/gal/5:12 Galatians 5:12]<br /> <br /> :: Ὄφελον καὶ ἀποκόψονται οἱ ἀναστατοῦντες ὑμᾶς<ref>[http://biblehub.com/interlinear/study/galatians/5.htm ''Bible Hub,'' Study Bible, Gal 5:12.]</ref> <br /> <br /> :: Would that those who are upsetting you might also castrate themselves!<br /> <br /> 1 Cor. 7:6-9, 25-26<br /> <br /> == Two helpful questions ==<br /> <br /> 1. What is my part in it?<br /> <br /> 2. What am I willing to do differently?<br /> <br /> == Home remedies ==<br /> <br /> === If you can't say anything nice ... ===<br /> <br /> We have the right to remain silent. If we feel that we might lose control, it is better to bite our tongues and pray silently for the gift of peace.<br /> <br /> === Count to ten ===<br /> <br /> This is one of my favorite proverbs about anger management: "A few moments of patience now will spare me a hundred days of regret." <br /> <br /> === Walk away ===<br /> <br /> "Let go and let God." We do not have to stay and listen to abuse if our antagonist has become angry with us. We may leave the room or the house or the neighborhood in order to collect our thoughts and calm down.<br /> <br /> === Refrain and Reframe ===<br /> <br /> This is a great lesson from cognitive psychology. Often it is not the action of others that causes us grief, but our reaction to it, based on our ''interpretation'' of the event.<br /> <br /> Refrain from over-reacting.<br /> <br /> Reframe the event.<br /> <br /> Wait on the Lord; wait in the Lord; keep peace in your heart and keep peace with your neighbor.<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> <references /><br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> * [[Faith and Feelings]].<br /> * [[Virtue]].<br /> <br /> [[Category:Discernment of Spirits]]<br /> [[Category:Spirituality]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=Christian_anger_management&diff=21622 Christian anger management 2026-03-12T18:44:03Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Distinguish between assertiveness and aggression */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Faith_and_feelings#Feeling_tempted_is_not_a_sin|Do not confuse temptation with sin]].<br /> <br /> In and of itself, anger is just one of [[faith and feelings|many feelings]] that are morally neutral.<br /> <br /> == Don't feel guilty about feeling angry ==<br /> <br /> In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus warns us that anger can lead us astray.<br /> <br /> :; [http://www.usccb.org/bible/mt/5:22 Mt 5:22]<br /> <br /> :: ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι πᾶς ὁ ὀργιζόμενος τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ ἔνοχος ἔσται τῇ κρίσει ὃς δ’ ἂν εἴπῃ τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ Ῥακά ἔνοχος ἔσται τῷ συνεδρίῳ ὃς δ’ ἂν εἴπῃ Μωρέ ἔνοχος ἔσται εἰς τὴν γέενναν τοῦ πυρός<br /> <br /> :: But I say to you, whoever is '''angry''' with his brother will be liable to judgment.<br /> <br /> Jesus did not command us not to ''feel'' angry. ''Feeling'' angry is a natural reaction to the perception that someone is acting unjustly against us or against those whom we love. The moral question is how we act in response to our feelings of anger. <br /> <br /> '''Sin is in the will, not in feelings.''' Jesus commands us not to ''will'' violence toward others. Paul makes this distinction between ''feeling'' and ''choosing'' very clear:<br /> <br /> "Be angry but sin not" [http://www.usccb.org/bible/eph/4:26 (Eph 4:26).]<br /> <br /> :: Ὀργίζεσθε καὶ μὴ ἁμαρτάνετε ὁ ἥλιος μὴ ἐπιδυέτω ἐπὶ [τῷ] παροργισμῷ ὑμῶν<br /> <br /> Jesus Himself ''felt'' angry [[#Jesus.27_anger|(see below),]] but did not sin in doing so.<br /> <br /> <br /> "Anger is just information. But what should I do with it?" (from a friend).<br /> <br /> == Passive aggression is aggression ==<br /> "You have two emotions, silence and rage" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095631/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (''Midnight Run'').]<br /> <br /> == We may identify our enemies — and forgive them! ==<br /> <br /> Difference between suppressed anger (cold rage) and sublimated anger (love of our enemies).<br /> <br /> We are commanded to [[Forgiveness prayer|forgive our enemies.]]<br /> <br /> This does not mean that we condone what they did to us.<br /> <br /> It means that we let go of our natural reaction to their evildoing.<br /> <br /> This requires God's power at work in us. Fortunately, when Jesus commands us to forgive our enemies, He gives us the power to do so.<br /> <br /> The easiest and most natural thing in the world is to hate those who hate us.<br /> <br /> "Hate is a muscle. It grows with use" (John Sack, ''An Eye for an Eye'').<br /> <br /> If we hate our enemies, we will become like them.<br /> <br /> If we hate our enemies, we will become hateful.<br /> <br /> Hate is easy and natural. Love is hard work and supernatural. We cannot obey Jesus' command to love our enemies by operating on our own strength. When Jesus commands us to work miracles like this, He provides the power we need to obey Him.<br /> <br /> "Father, in Jesus' Name, send Your Spirit!"<br /> <br /> == Righteous anger ==<br /> <br /> Those who do not feel angry at evil done to them or to other innocent victims are not healthy human beings.<br /> <br /> The proper response to injustice is anger.<br /> <br /> The purpose of this anger is to motivate the hard work that it takes to act against injustice.<br /> <br /> === Jesus' anger ===<br /> <br /> ==== At His disciples ====<br /> <br /> :; [http://www.usccb.org/bible/mk/3:5 Mk 3:5]<br /> <br /> :: Καὶ περιβλεψάμενος αὐτοὺς μετ’ ὀργῆς συλλυπούμενος* ἐπὶ τῇ πωρώσει τῆς καρδίας αὐτῶν λέγει τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ Ἔκτεινον τὴν χεῖρα (σου) καὶ ἐξέτεινεν καὶ ἀπεκατεστάθη ἡ χεὶρ αὐτοῦ <br /> <br /> :: Looking around at them '''with anger [wrath!]''' and grieved at their hardness of heart, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and his hand was restored.<br /> <br /> :; [http://usccb.org/bible/gal/mk/9:19 Mark 9:19]<br /> <br /> :: He said to them in reply, “O faithless generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you?”<br /> <br /> ==== At Pharisees ====<br /> <br /> :; [http://usccb.org/bible/matthew/23:13 Mt 23:13-36]<br /> <br /> :: There are seven "woes" in this passage.<br /> <br /> <div class="hang"><br /> <sup class="versenum">13</sup> '''Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.''' You lock the kingdom of heaven before human beings. You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">15</sup> '''Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.''' You traverse sea and land to make one convert, and when that happens you make him a child of Gehenna twice as much as yourselves.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">16</sup> '''Woe to you, blind guides,''' who say, ‘If one swears by the temple, it means nothing, but if one swears by the gold of the temple, one is obligated.’<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">17</sup> ''Blind fools, [moroi]''<ref>Jesus literally calls the Pharisees "morons" in spite of His teaching in this same gospel that "whoever says, ‘You fool’ ''[moron],'' will be liable to fiery Gehenna" [http://usccb.org/bible/matthew/5:22 (Mt 5:22).]</ref> which is greater, the gold, or the temple that made the gold sacred?<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">18</sup> And you say, ‘If one swears by the altar, it means nothing, but if one swears by the gift on the altar, one is obligated.’<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">19</sup> ''You blind ones'', which is greater, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">20</sup> One who swears by the altar swears by it and all that is upon it;<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">21</sup> one who swears by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it;<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">22</sup> one who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who is seated on it.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">23</sup> '''Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.''' You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity. [But] these you should have done, without neglecting the others.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">24</sup> [[gnats|''Blind guides,'' who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!]]<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">25</sup> '''Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.''' You cleanse the outside of cup and dish, but inside they are full of plunder and self-indulgence.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">26</sup> ''Blind Pharisee,'' cleanse first the inside of the cup, so that the outside also may be clean.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">27</sup> '''Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.''' You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of filth.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">28</sup> Even so, on the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">29</sup> '''Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.''' You build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the memorials of the righteous,<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">30</sup> and you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have joined them in shedding the prophets’ blood.’<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">31</sup> Thus you bear witness against yourselves that you are the children of those who murdered the prophets;<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">32</sup> now fill up what your ancestors measured out!<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">33</sup> ''You serpents, you brood of vipers,'' how can you flee from the judgment of Gehenna?<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">34</sup> Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">35</sup> so that there may come upon you all the righteous blood shed upon earth, from the righteous blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">36</sup> Amen, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. <br /> </div><br /> <br /> ==== Cleansing the Temple ====<br /> <br /> * [http://www.usccb.org/bible/mt/21:12 Matthew 21:12-13] <br /> * [http://usccb.org/bible/gal/mk/11:15 Mark 11:15-18] <br /> * [http://www.usccb.org/bible/lk/19:45 Luke 19:45-46] <br /> * [http://www.usccb.org/bible/jn/2:13 John 2:13-17]<br /> <br /> ==== Before the high priest ====<br /> <br /> "If I have spoken wrongly," Jesus answered him, "give evidence about the wrong; but if rightly, why do you hit Me?" [http://www.usccb.org/bible/jn/18:23 (Jn 18:23).]<br /> <br /> == Unrighteous anger ==<br /> <br /> Rage is a combination of anger and insecurity.<br /> <br /> It is out of proportion to the injury (allegedly) suffered.<br /> <br /> It breaks relationships.<br /> <br /> It is a sin in and of itself. The sin committed against the person who rages does not justify the rage. <br /> <br /> == Distinguish between assertiveness and aggression ==<br /> <br /> When we assert our rights, we grant the same rights to everyone else.<br /> <br /> When we act aggressively, we deny others the rights that we claim for ourselves.<br /> <br /> Assertiveness is good.<br /> <br /> Aggressiveness is bad.<br /> <br /> == Paul's anger ==<br /> <br /> :; [http://usccb.org/bible/gal/5:12 Galatians 5:12]<br /> <br /> :: Ὄφελον καὶ ἀποκόψονται οἱ ἀναστατοῦντες ὑμᾶς<ref>[http://biblehub.com/interlinear/study/galatians/5.htm ''Bible Hub,'' Study Bible, Gal 5:12.]</ref> <br /> <br /> :: Would that those who are upsetting you might also castrate themselves!<br /> <br /> 1 Cor. 7:6-9, 25-26<br /> <br /> == Home remedies ==<br /> <br /> === If you can't say anything nice ... ===<br /> <br /> We have the right to remain silent. If we feel that we might lose control, it is better to bite our tongues and pray silently for the gift of peace.<br /> <br /> === Count to ten ===<br /> <br /> This is one of my favorite proverbs about anger management: "A few moments of patience now will spare me a hundred days of regret." <br /> <br /> === Walk away ===<br /> <br /> "Let go and let God." We do not have to stay and listen to abuse if our antagonist has become angry with us. We may leave the room or the house or the neighborhood in order to collect our thoughts and calm down.<br /> <br /> === Refrain and Reframe ===<br /> <br /> This is a great lesson from cognitive psychology. Often it is not the action of others that causes us grief, but our reaction to it, based on our ''interpretation'' of the event.<br /> <br /> Refrain from over-reacting.<br /> <br /> Reframe the event.<br /> <br /> Wait on the Lord; wait in the Lord; keep peace in your heart and keep peace with your neighbor.<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> <references /><br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> * [[Faith and Feelings]].<br /> * [[Virtue]].<br /> <br /> [[Category:Discernment of Spirits]]<br /> [[Category:Spirituality]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=Christian_anger_management&diff=21621 Christian anger management 2026-03-12T18:41:54Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Don't feel guilty about feeling angry */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Faith_and_feelings#Feeling_tempted_is_not_a_sin|Do not confuse temptation with sin]].<br /> <br /> In and of itself, anger is just one of [[faith and feelings|many feelings]] that are morally neutral.<br /> <br /> == Don't feel guilty about feeling angry ==<br /> <br /> In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus warns us that anger can lead us astray.<br /> <br /> :; [http://www.usccb.org/bible/mt/5:22 Mt 5:22]<br /> <br /> :: ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι πᾶς ὁ ὀργιζόμενος τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ ἔνοχος ἔσται τῇ κρίσει ὃς δ’ ἂν εἴπῃ τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ Ῥακά ἔνοχος ἔσται τῷ συνεδρίῳ ὃς δ’ ἂν εἴπῃ Μωρέ ἔνοχος ἔσται εἰς τὴν γέενναν τοῦ πυρός<br /> <br /> :: But I say to you, whoever is '''angry''' with his brother will be liable to judgment.<br /> <br /> Jesus did not command us not to ''feel'' angry. ''Feeling'' angry is a natural reaction to the perception that someone is acting unjustly against us or against those whom we love. The moral question is how we act in response to our feelings of anger. <br /> <br /> '''Sin is in the will, not in feelings.''' Jesus commands us not to ''will'' violence toward others. Paul makes this distinction between ''feeling'' and ''choosing'' very clear:<br /> <br /> "Be angry but sin not" [http://www.usccb.org/bible/eph/4:26 (Eph 4:26).]<br /> <br /> :: Ὀργίζεσθε καὶ μὴ ἁμαρτάνετε ὁ ἥλιος μὴ ἐπιδυέτω ἐπὶ [τῷ] παροργισμῷ ὑμῶν<br /> <br /> Jesus Himself ''felt'' angry [[#Jesus.27_anger|(see below),]] but did not sin in doing so.<br /> <br /> <br /> "Anger is just information. But what should I do with it?" (from a friend).<br /> <br /> == Passive aggression is aggression ==<br /> "You have two emotions, silence and rage" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095631/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (''Midnight Run'').]<br /> <br /> == We may identify our enemies — and forgive them! ==<br /> <br /> Difference between suppressed anger (cold rage) and sublimated anger (love of our enemies).<br /> <br /> We are commanded to [[Forgiveness prayer|forgive our enemies.]]<br /> <br /> This does not mean that we condone what they did to us.<br /> <br /> It means that we let go of our natural reaction to their evildoing.<br /> <br /> This requires God's power at work in us. Fortunately, when Jesus commands us to forgive our enemies, He gives us the power to do so.<br /> <br /> The easiest and most natural thing in the world is to hate those who hate us.<br /> <br /> "Hate is a muscle. It grows with use" (John Sack, ''An Eye for an Eye'').<br /> <br /> If we hate our enemies, we will become like them.<br /> <br /> If we hate our enemies, we will become hateful.<br /> <br /> Hate is easy and natural. Love is hard work and supernatural. We cannot obey Jesus' command to love our enemies by operating on our own strength. When Jesus commands us to work miracles like this, He provides the power we need to obey Him.<br /> <br /> "Father, in Jesus' Name, send Your Spirit!"<br /> <br /> == Righteous anger ==<br /> <br /> Those who do not feel angry at evil done to them or to other innocent victims are not healthy human beings.<br /> <br /> The proper response to injustice is anger.<br /> <br /> The purpose of this anger is to motivate the hard work that it takes to act against injustice.<br /> <br /> === Jesus' anger ===<br /> <br /> ==== At His disciples ====<br /> <br /> :; [http://www.usccb.org/bible/mk/3:5 Mk 3:5]<br /> <br /> :: Καὶ περιβλεψάμενος αὐτοὺς μετ’ ὀργῆς συλλυπούμενος* ἐπὶ τῇ πωρώσει τῆς καρδίας αὐτῶν λέγει τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ Ἔκτεινον τὴν χεῖρα (σου) καὶ ἐξέτεινεν καὶ ἀπεκατεστάθη ἡ χεὶρ αὐτοῦ <br /> <br /> :: Looking around at them '''with anger [wrath!]''' and grieved at their hardness of heart, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and his hand was restored.<br /> <br /> :; [http://usccb.org/bible/gal/mk/9:19 Mark 9:19]<br /> <br /> :: He said to them in reply, “O faithless generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you?”<br /> <br /> ==== At Pharisees ====<br /> <br /> :; [http://usccb.org/bible/matthew/23:13 Mt 23:13-36]<br /> <br /> :: There are seven "woes" in this passage.<br /> <br /> <div class="hang"><br /> <sup class="versenum">13</sup> '''Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.''' You lock the kingdom of heaven before human beings. You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">15</sup> '''Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.''' You traverse sea and land to make one convert, and when that happens you make him a child of Gehenna twice as much as yourselves.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">16</sup> '''Woe to you, blind guides,''' who say, ‘If one swears by the temple, it means nothing, but if one swears by the gold of the temple, one is obligated.’<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">17</sup> ''Blind fools, [moroi]''<ref>Jesus literally calls the Pharisees "morons" in spite of His teaching in this same gospel that "whoever says, ‘You fool’ ''[moron],'' will be liable to fiery Gehenna" [http://usccb.org/bible/matthew/5:22 (Mt 5:22).]</ref> which is greater, the gold, or the temple that made the gold sacred?<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">18</sup> And you say, ‘If one swears by the altar, it means nothing, but if one swears by the gift on the altar, one is obligated.’<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">19</sup> ''You blind ones'', which is greater, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">20</sup> One who swears by the altar swears by it and all that is upon it;<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">21</sup> one who swears by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it;<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">22</sup> one who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who is seated on it.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">23</sup> '''Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.''' You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity. [But] these you should have done, without neglecting the others.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">24</sup> [[gnats|''Blind guides,'' who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!]]<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">25</sup> '''Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.''' You cleanse the outside of cup and dish, but inside they are full of plunder and self-indulgence.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">26</sup> ''Blind Pharisee,'' cleanse first the inside of the cup, so that the outside also may be clean.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">27</sup> '''Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.''' You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of filth.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">28</sup> Even so, on the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">29</sup> '''Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.''' You build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the memorials of the righteous,<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">30</sup> and you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have joined them in shedding the prophets’ blood.’<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">31</sup> Thus you bear witness against yourselves that you are the children of those who murdered the prophets;<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">32</sup> now fill up what your ancestors measured out!<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">33</sup> ''You serpents, you brood of vipers,'' how can you flee from the judgment of Gehenna?<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">34</sup> Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">35</sup> so that there may come upon you all the righteous blood shed upon earth, from the righteous blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.<br /> <br /> <sup class="versenum">36</sup> Amen, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. <br /> </div><br /> <br /> ==== Cleansing the Temple ====<br /> <br /> * [http://www.usccb.org/bible/mt/21:12 Matthew 21:12-13] <br /> * [http://usccb.org/bible/gal/mk/11:15 Mark 11:15-18] <br /> * [http://www.usccb.org/bible/lk/19:45 Luke 19:45-46] <br /> * [http://www.usccb.org/bible/jn/2:13 John 2:13-17]<br /> <br /> ==== Before the high priest ====<br /> <br /> "If I have spoken wrongly," Jesus answered him, "give evidence about the wrong; but if rightly, why do you hit Me?" [http://www.usccb.org/bible/jn/18:23 (Jn 18:23).]<br /> <br /> == Unrighteous anger ==<br /> <br /> Rage is a combination of anger and insecurity.<br /> <br /> It is out of proportion to the injury (allegedly) suffered.<br /> <br /> It breaks relationships.<br /> <br /> It is a sin in and of itself. The sin committed against the person who rages does not justify the rage. <br /> <br /> == Distinguish between assertiveness and aggression ==<br /> <br /> When we assert our rights, we grant the same rights to everyone else.<br /> <br /> When we act aggressively, we deny others the rights we claim for ourselves.<br /> <br /> Assertiveness is good.<br /> <br /> Aggressiveness is bad.<br /> <br /> == Paul's anger ==<br /> <br /> :; [http://usccb.org/bible/gal/5:12 Galatians 5:12]<br /> <br /> :: Ὄφελον καὶ ἀποκόψονται οἱ ἀναστατοῦντες ὑμᾶς<ref>[http://biblehub.com/interlinear/study/galatians/5.htm ''Bible Hub,'' Study Bible, Gal 5:12.]</ref> <br /> <br /> :: Would that those who are upsetting you might also castrate themselves!<br /> <br /> 1 Cor. 7:6-9, 25-26<br /> <br /> == Home remedies ==<br /> <br /> === If you can't say anything nice ... ===<br /> <br /> We have the right to remain silent. If we feel that we might lose control, it is better to bite our tongues and pray silently for the gift of peace.<br /> <br /> === Count to ten ===<br /> <br /> This is one of my favorite proverbs about anger management: "A few moments of patience now will spare me a hundred days of regret." <br /> <br /> === Walk away ===<br /> <br /> "Let go and let God." We do not have to stay and listen to abuse if our antagonist has become angry with us. We may leave the room or the house or the neighborhood in order to collect our thoughts and calm down.<br /> <br /> === Refrain and Reframe ===<br /> <br /> This is a great lesson from cognitive psychology. Often it is not the action of others that causes us grief, but our reaction to it, based on our ''interpretation'' of the event.<br /> <br /> Refrain from over-reacting.<br /> <br /> Reframe the event.<br /> <br /> Wait on the Lord; wait in the Lord; keep peace in your heart and keep peace with your neighbor.<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> <references /><br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> * [[Faith and Feelings]].<br /> * [[Virtue]].<br /> <br /> [[Category:Discernment of Spirits]]<br /> [[Category:Spirituality]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=TIGHAR&diff=21620 TIGHAR 2025-12-26T23:09:32Z

<p>Mxmsj: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery<br /> <br /> == Facts Verse interviews ==<br /> <br /> Facts Verse has 9 million subscribers at the time I am writing this.<br /> <br /> [https://youtu.be/Bkcjffpy4h8?si=um_Sa6BJ0VK6_XH5 Amelia Earhart Investigator CONFIRMS the Location of Her Emergency Landing]<br /> <br /> [https://youtu.be/okHnF-9fpTs?si=FDYHxU8SkwId15wD Top Amelia Earhart Researcher Reveals What REALLY Happened to Her Plane]<br /> <br /> [https://youtu.be/aIdd9O-X_wE?si=DOWE0NDG92hAWjHl "Everything That Went Wrong on Amelia Earhart's Fatal Flight & Rescue Mission"]<br /> <br /> [https://youtu.be/__5au24ofgg?si=OVoptzgS586Al-Qz Amelia Earhart Expert Explains Why We'll NEVER Find Her Plane]<br /> <br /> [https://youtu.be/EUq_RbPlZmI?si=6T8tdt4R8j78Sv8W Amelia Earhart's Final Radio Signals Suggest She SURVIVED After She Disappeared]<br /> <br /> [[Category:TIGHAR]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=Iron_Ore_Podcast&diff=21619 Iron Ore Podcast 2025-12-26T11:25:28Z

<p>Mxmsj: </p> <hr /> <div>Created and hosted by Adam Jarosz.<br /> <br /> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HhWfMYd9f0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HhWfMYd9f0]<br /> <br /> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wug3qSUsmpE From Rome]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=Iron_Ore_Podcast&diff=21618 Iron Ore Podcast 2025-12-26T11:25:10Z

<p>Mxmsj: </p> <hr /> <div>Created and hosted by Adam Jarosz.<br /> <br /> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HhWfMYd9f0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HhWfMYd9f0]<br /> <br /> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wug3qSUsmpE]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=Category:TIGHAR&diff=21617 Category:TIGHAR 2025-12-24T21:14:11Z

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Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=TIGHAR&diff=21616 TIGHAR 2025-12-24T21:06:07Z

<p>Mxmsj: Created page with " The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery == Facts Verse interviews == Facts Verse has 9 million subscribers at the time I am writing this. [https://youtu.be/Bkcjffpy4h8?si=um_Sa6BJ0VK6_XH5 Amelia Earhart Investigator CONFIRMS the Location of Her Emergency Landing] [https://youtu.be/okHnF-9fpTs?si=FDYHxU8SkwId15wD Top Amelia Earhart Researcher Reveals What REALLY Happened to Her Plane] [https://youtu.be/aIdd9O-X_wE?si=DOWE0NDG92hAWjHl "Everything That..."</p> <hr /> <div><br /> The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery<br /> <br /> == Facts Verse interviews ==<br /> <br /> Facts Verse has 9 million subscribers at the time I am writing this.<br /> <br /> [https://youtu.be/Bkcjffpy4h8?si=um_Sa6BJ0VK6_XH5 Amelia Earhart Investigator CONFIRMS the Location of Her Emergency Landing]<br /> <br /> [https://youtu.be/okHnF-9fpTs?si=FDYHxU8SkwId15wD Top Amelia Earhart Researcher Reveals What REALLY Happened to Her Plane]<br /> <br /> [https://youtu.be/aIdd9O-X_wE?si=DOWE0NDG92hAWjHl "Everything That Went Wrong on Amelia Earhart's Fatal Flight & Rescue Mission"]<br /> <br /> [https://youtu.be/__5au24ofgg?si=OVoptzgS586Al-Qz Amelia Earhart Expert Explains Why We'll NEVER Find Her Plane]<br /> <br /> [[Category:TIGHAR]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21615 How to ride a bike 2025-12-21T15:11:14Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts toward the desired direction of the turn we want to make.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> ::: The "caster effect of trail" will aid this movement of the handlebars. It may be sufficient simply to stop countersteering in order to allow the handlebars to swing over to the opposite direction to complete the turn.<br /> <br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering — How to save your life on a motorcycle"] ====<br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o ''MotoJitsu,'' Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike] ====<br /> ::: The experimenters fitted a second fixed handlebar that had working throttle and brake but that could not turn the wheel. When holding on to the fixed handlebar, no amount of moving their weight around would allow the riders to make an effective turn. The necessary weight shift that makes turning possible comes from momentarily steering in the direction opposite to the direction of the desired turn.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFEnjo7fz4 How to use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn Your Motorcycle] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/PgUOOwnZcDU?si=MuGoqdhMgxnKbFSq The Physics of Countersteering] ====<br /> ::: Illustrates centripetal force, not mentioning that the curve that the motorcycle is following is caused by turning the handlebars and wheel away from neutral.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvdB6pMdx0 ''MotoJitsu,'' One Finger Counter Steering Demonstration] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/7wWJaeqr7aY?si=S-urooL-Sbt4qODS ''MotoJitsu,'' Debunking the Myth: Counter Steering at Low Speeds] ====<br /> ::: Countersteering is what ''causes'' our weight to shift into a turn.<br /> ::: Fast or slow makes no difference. We must steer in the opposite direction of the way we want to turn in order to shift our weight in the direction of the turn.<br /> ::: "Countersteering makes the bike de-stabilize." As soon as our weight shifts in the opposite direction of the countersteer, the bike will start to lean in the direction we want to turn. Then the geometry of the frame — which causes "the caster effect of trail" — will cause the front wheel to turn ''into'' the direction of the desired turn.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/5YC6TJlmBzc?si=01jnrDX8uuNoSItl ''MotoJitsu,'' Counter Steering Explained -- 3 Levels of Difficulty] ====<br /> ::: Countersteering works at any speed.<br /> ::: Because of the caster effect of trail, the handlebars automatically turn into the direction in which your weight has shifted.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/Ckf47afEFpQ?si=tEyhXDwFoZHGjAqu What is Countersteering on a Motorcycle?] ====<br /> ::: Good footage of countersteering at higher speeds, even showing that motorcycle racers use it to shift their weight in the direction of the turn they need to make.<br /> ::: He does do the only demonstration I have ever seen of making a turn without countersteering at a low speed. Don't try that in an emergency! Countersteering quickly and decisively toward an obstacle is the best way not to hit the obstacle. If you are going very slowly, you should probably apply maximum pressure on the brakes, too. <br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/KhFEnjo7fz4?si=vc3XJcXz3PDZoQfn How to Use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn your Motorcycle] ====<br /> ::: Very thorough analysis of countersteering, with good graphics to explain trail and the caster effect that turns the wheel in the direction of a lean. "This self-steering keeps our bike from falling down" (all things being equal). <br /> ::: "The front wheel does a lot of stuff by itself."<br /> ::: "Countersteering changes the lean angle of the motorcycle or bicycle."<br /> ::: "Countersteering makes the bike lean in the opposite direction from the direction of the countersteer."<br /> :::: Countersteering to the left makes the bike lean to the right.<br /> :::: Countersteering to the right makes the bike lean to the left.<br /> <br /> ::: ''After'' the brief moment of countersteering, the trail of the contact patch and the caster effect turn the wheel in the direction of the turn. From then on, the wheel is turning in the same direction that the bike is leaning.<br /> <br /> ::: Interesting exercises to do in a big, empty parking lot to get the feeling of how the frame responds to different lean angles at different speeds.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21614 How to ride a bike 2025-12-21T15:09:10Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* One Finger Counter Steering Demonstration */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts toward the desired direction of the turn we want to make.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> ::: The "caster effect of trail" will aid this movement of the handlebars. It may be sufficient simply to stop countersteering in order to allow the handlebars to swing over to the opposite direction to complete the turn.<br /> <br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering — How to save your life on a motorcycle"] ====<br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike] ====<br /> ::: The experimenters fitted a second fixed handlebar that had working throttle and brake but that could not turn the wheel. When holding on to the fixed handlebar, no amount of moving their weight around would allow the riders to make an effective turn. The necessary weight shift that makes turning possible comes from momentarily steering in the direction opposite to the direction of the desired turn.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFEnjo7fz4 How to use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn Your Motorcycle] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/PgUOOwnZcDU?si=MuGoqdhMgxnKbFSq The Physics of Countersteering] ====<br /> ::: Illustrates centripetal force, not mentioning that the curve that the motorcycle is following is caused by turning the handlebars and wheel away from neutral.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvdB6pMdx0 ''MotoJitsu,'' One Finger Counter Steering Demonstration] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/7wWJaeqr7aY?si=S-urooL-Sbt4qODS ''MotoJitsu,'' Debunking the Myth: Counter Steering at Low Speeds] ====<br /> ::: Countersteering is what ''causes'' our weight to shift into a turn.<br /> ::: Fast or slow makes no difference. We must steer in the opposite direction of the way we want to turn in order to shift our weight in the direction of the turn.<br /> ::: "Countersteering makes the bike de-stabilize." As soon as our weight shifts in the opposite direction of the countersteer, the bike will start to lean in the direction we want to turn. Then the geometry of the frame — which causes "the caster effect of trail" — will cause the front wheel to turn ''into'' the direction of the desired turn.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/5YC6TJlmBzc?si=01jnrDX8uuNoSItl ''MotoJitsu,'' Counter Steering Explained -- 3 Levels of Difficulty] ====<br /> ::: Countersteering works at any speed.<br /> ::: Because of the caster effect of trail, the handlebars automatically turn into the direction in which your weight has shifted.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/Ckf47afEFpQ?si=tEyhXDwFoZHGjAqu What is Countersteering on a Motorcycle?] ====<br /> ::: Good footage of countersteering at higher speeds, even showing that motorcycle racers use it to shift their weight in the direction of the turn they need to make.<br /> ::: He does do the only demonstration I have ever seen of making a turn without countersteering at a low speed. Don't try that in an emergency! Countersteering quickly and decisively toward an obstacle is the best way not to hit the obstacle. If you are going very slowly, you should probably apply maximum pressure on the brakes, too. <br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/KhFEnjo7fz4?si=vc3XJcXz3PDZoQfn How to Use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn your Motorcycle] ====<br /> ::: Very thorough analysis of countersteering, with good graphics to explain trail and the caster effect that turns the wheel in the direction of a lean. "This self-steering keeps our bike from falling down" (all things being equal). <br /> ::: "The front wheel does a lot of stuff by itself."<br /> ::: "Countersteering changes the lean angle of the motorcycle or bicycle."<br /> ::: "Countersteering makes the bike lean in the opposite direction from the direction of the countersteer."<br /> :::: Countersteering to the left makes the bike lean to the right.<br /> :::: Countersteering to the right makes the bike lean to the left.<br /> <br /> ::: ''After'' the brief moment of countersteering, the trail of the contact patch and the caster effect turn the wheel in the direction of the turn. From then on, the wheel is turning in the same direction that the bike is leaning.<br /> <br /> ::: Interesting exercises to do in a big, empty parking lot to get the feeling of how the frame responds to different lean angles at different speeds.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21613 How to ride a bike 2025-12-21T15:07:51Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Debunking the Myth: Counter Steering at Low Speeds */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts toward the desired direction of the turn we want to make.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> ::: The "caster effect of trail" will aid this movement of the handlebars. It may be sufficient simply to stop countersteering in order to allow the handlebars to swing over to the opposite direction to complete the turn.<br /> <br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering — How to save your life on a motorcycle"] ====<br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike] ====<br /> ::: The experimenters fitted a second fixed handlebar that had working throttle and brake but that could not turn the wheel. When holding on to the fixed handlebar, no amount of moving their weight around would allow the riders to make an effective turn. The necessary weight shift that makes turning possible comes from momentarily steering in the direction opposite to the direction of the desired turn.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFEnjo7fz4 How to use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn Your Motorcycle] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/PgUOOwnZcDU?si=MuGoqdhMgxnKbFSq The Physics of Countersteering] ====<br /> ::: Illustrates centripetal force, not mentioning that the curve that the motorcycle is following is caused by turning the handlebars and wheel away from neutral.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvdB6pMdx0 One Finger Counter Steering Demonstration] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/7wWJaeqr7aY?si=S-urooL-Sbt4qODS ''MotoJitsu,'' Debunking the Myth: Counter Steering at Low Speeds] ====<br /> ::: Countersteering is what ''causes'' our weight to shift into a turn.<br /> ::: Fast or slow makes no difference. We must steer in the opposite direction of the way we want to turn in order to shift our weight in the direction of the turn.<br /> ::: "Countersteering makes the bike de-stabilize." As soon as our weight shifts in the opposite direction of the countersteer, the bike will start to lean in the direction we want to turn. Then the geometry of the frame — which causes "the caster effect of trail" — will cause the front wheel to turn ''into'' the direction of the desired turn.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/5YC6TJlmBzc?si=01jnrDX8uuNoSItl ''MotoJitsu,'' Counter Steering Explained -- 3 Levels of Difficulty] ====<br /> ::: Countersteering works at any speed.<br /> ::: Because of the caster effect of trail, the handlebars automatically turn into the direction in which your weight has shifted.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/Ckf47afEFpQ?si=tEyhXDwFoZHGjAqu What is Countersteering on a Motorcycle?] ====<br /> ::: Good footage of countersteering at higher speeds, even showing that motorcycle racers use it to shift their weight in the direction of the turn they need to make.<br /> ::: He does do the only demonstration I have ever seen of making a turn without countersteering at a low speed. Don't try that in an emergency! Countersteering quickly and decisively toward an obstacle is the best way not to hit the obstacle. If you are going very slowly, you should probably apply maximum pressure on the brakes, too. <br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/KhFEnjo7fz4?si=vc3XJcXz3PDZoQfn How to Use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn your Motorcycle] ====<br /> ::: Very thorough analysis of countersteering, with good graphics to explain trail and the caster effect that turns the wheel in the direction of a lean. "This self-steering keeps our bike from falling down" (all things being equal). <br /> ::: "The front wheel does a lot of stuff by itself."<br /> ::: "Countersteering changes the lean angle of the motorcycle or bicycle."<br /> ::: "Countersteering makes the bike lean in the opposite direction from the direction of the countersteer."<br /> :::: Countersteering to the left makes the bike lean to the right.<br /> :::: Countersteering to the right makes the bike lean to the left.<br /> <br /> ::: ''After'' the brief moment of countersteering, the trail of the contact patch and the caster effect turn the wheel in the direction of the turn. From then on, the wheel is turning in the same direction that the bike is leaning.<br /> <br /> ::: Interesting exercises to do in a big, empty parking lot to get the feeling of how the frame responds to different lean angles at different speeds.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21612 How to ride a bike 2025-12-21T15:06:36Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Debunking the Myth: Counter Steering at Low Speeds */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts toward the desired direction of the turn we want to make.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> ::: The "caster effect of trail" will aid this movement of the handlebars. It may be sufficient simply to stop countersteering in order to allow the handlebars to swing over to the opposite direction to complete the turn.<br /> <br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering — How to save your life on a motorcycle"] ====<br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike] ====<br /> ::: The experimenters fitted a second fixed handlebar that had working throttle and brake but that could not turn the wheel. When holding on to the fixed handlebar, no amount of moving their weight around would allow the riders to make an effective turn. The necessary weight shift that makes turning possible comes from momentarily steering in the direction opposite to the direction of the desired turn.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFEnjo7fz4 How to use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn Your Motorcycle] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/PgUOOwnZcDU?si=MuGoqdhMgxnKbFSq The Physics of Countersteering] ====<br /> ::: Illustrates centripetal force, not mentioning that the curve that the motorcycle is following is caused by turning the handlebars and wheel away from neutral.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvdB6pMdx0 One Finger Counter Steering Demonstration] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/7wWJaeqr7aY?si=S-urooL-Sbt4qODS Debunking the Myth: Counter Steering at Low Speeds] ====<br /> ::: Countersteering is what ''causes'' our weight to shift into a turn.<br /> ::: Fast or slow makes no difference. We must steer in the opposite direction of the way we want to turn in order to shift our weight in the direction of the turn.<br /> ::: "Countersteering makes the bike de-stabilize." As soon as our weight shifts in the opposite direction of the countersteer, the bike will start to lean in the direction we want to turn. Then the geometry of the frame — which causes "the caster effect of trail" — will cause the front wheel to turn ''into'' the direction of the desired turn.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/5YC6TJlmBzc?si=01jnrDX8uuNoSItl ''MotoJitsu,'' Counter Steering Explained -- 3 Levels of Difficulty] ====<br /> ::: Countersteering works at any speed.<br /> ::: Because of the caster effect of trail, the handlebars automatically turn into the direction in which your weight has shifted.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/Ckf47afEFpQ?si=tEyhXDwFoZHGjAqu What is Countersteering on a Motorcycle?] ====<br /> ::: Good footage of countersteering at higher speeds, even showing that motorcycle racers use it to shift their weight in the direction of the turn they need to make.<br /> ::: He does do the only demonstration I have ever seen of making a turn without countersteering at a low speed. Don't try that in an emergency! Countersteering quickly and decisively toward an obstacle is the best way not to hit the obstacle. If you are going very slowly, you should probably apply maximum pressure on the brakes, too. <br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/KhFEnjo7fz4?si=vc3XJcXz3PDZoQfn How to Use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn your Motorcycle] ====<br /> ::: Very thorough analysis of countersteering, with good graphics to explain trail and the caster effect that turns the wheel in the direction of a lean. "This self-steering keeps our bike from falling down" (all things being equal). <br /> ::: "The front wheel does a lot of stuff by itself."<br /> ::: "Countersteering changes the lean angle of the motorcycle or bicycle."<br /> ::: "Countersteering makes the bike lean in the opposite direction from the direction of the countersteer."<br /> :::: Countersteering to the left makes the bike lean to the right.<br /> :::: Countersteering to the right makes the bike lean to the left.<br /> <br /> ::: ''After'' the brief moment of countersteering, the trail of the contact patch and the caster effect turn the wheel in the direction of the turn. From then on, the wheel is turning in the same direction that the bike is leaning.<br /> <br /> ::: Interesting exercises to do in a big, empty parking lot to get the feeling of how the frame responds to different lean angles at different speeds.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21611 How to ride a bike 2025-12-18T07:52:36Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* What is Countersteering on a Motorcycle? */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts toward the desired direction of the turn we want to make.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> ::: The "caster effect of trail" will aid this movement of the handlebars. It may be sufficient simply to stop countersteering in order to allow the handlebars to swing over to the opposite direction to complete the turn.<br /> <br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering — How to save your life on a motorcycle"] ====<br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike] ====<br /> ::: The experimenters fitted a second fixed handlebar that had working throttle and brake but that could not turn the wheel. When holding on to the fixed handlebar, no amount of moving their weight around would allow the riders to make an effective turn. The necessary weight shift that makes turning possible comes from momentarily steering in the direction opposite to the direction of the desired turn.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFEnjo7fz4 How to use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn Your Motorcycle] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/PgUOOwnZcDU?si=MuGoqdhMgxnKbFSq The Physics of Countersteering] ====<br /> ::: Illustrates centripetal force, not mentioning that the curve that the motorcycle is following is caused by turning the handlebars and wheel away from neutral.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvdB6pMdx0 One Finger Counter Steering Demonstration] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/7wWJaeqr7aY?si=S-urooL-Sbt4qODS Debunking the Myth: Counter Steering at Low Speeds] ====<br /> ::: Countersteering is what ''causes'' our weight to shift into a turn.<br /> ::: Fast or slow makes no difference. We must steer in the opposite direction of the way we want to turn in order to shift our weight in the direction of the turn.<br /> ::: "Countersteering makes the bike de-stabilize." As soon as our weight shifts in the opposite direction of the countersteer, the bike will start to lean in the direction we want to turn. Then the geometry of the frame — which causes "the caster effect of trail" — will cause the front wheel to turn ''into'' the direction of the desired turn. <br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/Ckf47afEFpQ?si=tEyhXDwFoZHGjAqu What is Countersteering on a Motorcycle?] ====<br /> ::: Good footage of countersteering at higher speeds, even showing that motorcycle racers use it to shift their weight in the direction of the turn they need to make.<br /> ::: He does do the only demonstration I have ever seen of making a turn without countersteering at a low speed. Don't try that in an emergency! Countersteering quickly and decisively toward an obstacle is the best way not to hit the obstacle. If you are going very slowly, you should probably apply maximum pressure on the brakes, too. <br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/KhFEnjo7fz4?si=vc3XJcXz3PDZoQfn How to Use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn your Motorcycle] ====<br /> ::: Very thorough analysis of countersteering, with good graphics to explain trail and the caster effect that turns the wheel in the direction of a lean. "This self-steering keeps our bike from falling down" (all things being equal). <br /> ::: "The front wheel does a lot of stuff by itself."<br /> ::: "Countersteering changes the lean angle of the motorcycle or bicycle."<br /> ::: "Countersteering makes the bike lean in the opposite direction from the direction of the countersteer."<br /> :::: Countersteering to the left makes the bike lean to the right.<br /> :::: Countersteering to the right makes the bike lean to the left.<br /> <br /> ::: ''After'' the brief moment of countersteering, the trail of the contact patch and the caster effect turn the wheel in the direction of the turn. From then on, the wheel is turning in the same direction that the bike is leaning.<br /> <br /> ::: Interesting exercises to do in a big, empty parking lot to get the feeling of how the frame responds to different lean angles at different speeds.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21610 How to ride a bike 2025-12-18T07:11:25Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Links */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts toward the desired direction of the turn we want to make.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> ::: The "caster effect of trail" will aid this movement of the handlebars. It may be sufficient simply to stop countersteering in order to allow the handlebars to swing over to the opposite direction to complete the turn.<br /> <br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering — How to save your life on a motorcycle"] ====<br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike] ====<br /> ::: The experimenters fitted a second fixed handlebar that had working throttle and brake but that could not turn the wheel. When holding on to the fixed handlebar, no amount of moving their weight around would allow the riders to make an effective turn. The necessary weight shift that makes turning possible comes from momentarily steering in the direction opposite to the direction of the desired turn.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFEnjo7fz4 How to use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn Your Motorcycle] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/PgUOOwnZcDU?si=MuGoqdhMgxnKbFSq The Physics of Countersteering] ====<br /> ::: Illustrates centripetal force, not mentioning that the curve that the motorcycle is following is caused by turning the handlebars and wheel away from neutral.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvdB6pMdx0 One Finger Counter Steering Demonstration] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/7wWJaeqr7aY?si=S-urooL-Sbt4qODS Debunking the Myth: Counter Steering at Low Speeds] ====<br /> ::: Countersteering is what ''causes'' our weight to shift into a turn.<br /> ::: Fast or slow makes no difference. We must steer in the opposite direction of the way we want to turn in order to shift our weight in the direction of the turn.<br /> ::: "Countersteering makes the bike de-stabilize." As soon as our weight shifts in the opposite direction of the countersteer, the bike will start to lean in the direction we want to turn. Then the geometry of the frame — which causes "the caster effect of trail" — will cause the front wheel to turn ''into'' the direction of the desired turn. <br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/Ckf47afEFpQ?si=tEyhXDwFoZHGjAqu What is Countersteering on a Motorcycle?] ====<br /> ::: Good footage of countersteering at higher speeds, even showing that motorcycle racers use it to shift their weight in the direction of the turn they need to make.<br /> ::: He does do the only demonstration I have ever seen of making a turn without countersteering at a low speed. Don't try that in an emergency! Countersteering quickly and decisively toward an obstacle is the best way not to hit the obstacle. If you are going very slowly, you should probably apply maximum pressure on the brakes, too. <br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21609 How to ride a bike 2025-12-18T07:09:26Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Links */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts toward the desired direction of the turn we want to make.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> ::: The "caster effect of trail" will aid this movement of the handlebars. It may be sufficient simply to stop countersteering in order to allow the handlebars to swing over to the opposite direction to complete the turn.<br /> <br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] ====<br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike] ====<br /> ::: The experimenters fitted a second fixed handlebar that had working throttle and brake but that could not turn the wheel. When holding on to the fixed handlebar, no amount of moving their weight around would allow the riders to make an effective turn. The necessary weight shift that makes turning possible comes from momentarily steering in the direction opposite to the direction of the desired turn.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFEnjo7fz4 How to use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn Your Motorcycle] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/PgUOOwnZcDU?si=MuGoqdhMgxnKbFSq The Physics of Countersteering] ====<br /> ::: Illustrates centripetal force, not mentioning that the curve that the motorcycle is following is caused by turning the handlebars and wheel away from neutral.<br /> <br /> ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvdB6pMdx0 One Finger Counter Steering Demonstration] ====<br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/7wWJaeqr7aY?si=S-urooL-Sbt4qODS Debunking the Myth: Counter Steering at Low Speeds] ====<br /> ::: Countersteering is what ''causes'' our weight to shift into a turn.<br /> ::: Fast or slow makes no difference. We must steer in the opposite direction of the way we want to turn in order to shift our weight in the direction of the turn.<br /> ::: "Countersteering makes the bike de-stabilize." As soon as our weight shifts in the opposite direction of the countersteer, the bike will start to lean in the direction we want to turn. Then the geometry of the frame -- which causes "the caster effect of trail" -- will cause the front wheel to turn ''into'' the direction of the desired turn. <br /> <br /> ==== [https://youtu.be/Ckf47afEFpQ?si=tEyhXDwFoZHGjAqu What is Countersteering on a Motorcycle?] ====<br /> ::: Good footage of countersteering at higher speeds, even showing that motorcycle racers use it to shift their weight in the direction of the turn they need to make.<br /> ::: He does do the only demonstration I have ever seen of making a turn without countersteering at a low speed. Don't try that in an emergency! Countersteering quickly and decisively toward an obstacle is the best way not to hit the obstacle. If you are going very slowly, you should probably apply maximum pressure on the brakes, too. <br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21608 How to ride a bike 2025-12-18T07:05:07Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Links */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts toward the desired direction of the turn we want to make.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> ::: The "caster effect of trail" will aid this movement of the handlebars. It may be sufficient simply to stop countersteering in order to allow the handlebars to swing over to the opposite direction to complete the turn.<br /> <br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] <br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike]<br /> ::: The experimenters fitted a second fixed handlebar that had working throttle and brake but that could not turn the wheel. When holding on to the fixed handlebar, no amount of moving their weight around would allow the riders to make an effective turn. The necessary weight shift that makes turning possible comes from momentarily steering in the direction opposite to the direction of the desired turn.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFEnjo7fz4 How to use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn Your Motorcycle]<br /> <br /> ::- [https://youtu.be/PgUOOwnZcDU?si=MuGoqdhMgxnKbFSq The Physics of Countersteering]<br /> ::: Illustrates centripetal force, not mentioning that the curve that the motorcycle is following is caused by turning the handlebars and wheel away from neutral.<br /> <br /> ::- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvdB6pMdx0 One Finger Counter Steering Demonstration]<br /> <br /> ::- [https://youtu.be/7wWJaeqr7aY?si=S-urooL-Sbt4qODS Debunking the Myth: Counter Steering at Low Speeds]<br /> ::: Countersteering is what ''causes'' our weight to shift into a turn.<br /> ::: Fast or slow makes no difference. We must steer in the opposite direction of the way we want to turn in order to shift our weight in the direction of the turn.<br /> ::: "Countersteering makes the bike de-stabilize." As soon as our weight shifts in the opposite direction of the countersteer, the bike will start to lean in the direction we want to turn. Then the geometry of the frame -- which causes "the caster effect of trail" -- will cause the front wheel to turn ''into'' the direction of the desired turn. <br /> <br /> ::- [https://youtu.be/Ckf47afEFpQ?si=tEyhXDwFoZHGjAqu What is Countersteering on a Motorcycle?]<br /> ::: Good footage of countersteering at higher speeds, even showing that motorcycle racers use it to shift their weight in the direction of the turn they need to make.<br /> ::: He does do the only demonstration I have ever seen of making a turn without countersteering at a low speed. Don't try that in an emergency! Countersteering quickly and decisively toward an obstacle is the best way not to hit the obstacle. If you are going very slowly, you should probably apply maximum pressure on the brakes, too. <br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21607 How to ride a bike 2025-12-13T11:43:36Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* How do we make a turn on a bike? */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts toward the desired direction of the turn we want to make.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> ::: The "caster effect of trail" will aid this movement of the handlebars. It may be sufficient simply to stop countersteering in order to allow the handlebars to swing over to the opposite direction to complete the turn.<br /> <br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] <br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike]<br /> ::: The experimenters fitted a second fixed handlebar that had working throttle and brake but that could not turn the wheel. When holding on to the fixed handlebar, no amount of moving their weight around would allow the riders to make an effective turn. The necessary weight shift that makes turning possible comes from momentarily steering in the direction opposite to the direction of the desired turn.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFEnjo7fz4 How to use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn Your Motorcycle]<br /> <br /> ::- [https://youtu.be/PgUOOwnZcDU?si=MuGoqdhMgxnKbFSq The Physics of Countersteering]<br /> ::: Illustrates centripetal force, not mentioning that the curve that the motorcycle is following is caused by turning the handlebars and wheel away from neutral.<br /> <br /> ::- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvdB6pMdx0 One Finger Counter Steering Demonstration]<br /> <br /> ::- [https://youtu.be/7wWJaeqr7aY?si=S-urooL-Sbt4qODS Debunking the Myth: Counter Steering at Low Speeds]<br /> ::: Countersteering is what ''causes'' our weight to shift into a turn.<br /> ::: Fast or slow makes no difference. We must steer in the opposite direction of the way we want to turn in order to shift our weight in the direction of the turn.<br /> ::: "Countersteering makes the bike de-stabilize." As soon as our weight shifts in the opposite direction of the countersteer, the bike will start to lean in the direction we want to turn. Then the geometry of the frame -- which causes "the caster effect of trail" -- will cause the front wheel to turn ''into'' the direction of the desired turn. <br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21606 How to ride a bike 2025-12-13T11:39:05Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Links */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] <br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike]<br /> ::: The experimenters fitted a second fixed handlebar that had working throttle and brake but that could not turn the wheel. When holding on to the fixed handlebar, no amount of moving their weight around would allow the riders to make an effective turn. The necessary weight shift that makes turning possible comes from momentarily steering in the direction opposite to the direction of the desired turn.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFEnjo7fz4 How to use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn Your Motorcycle]<br /> <br /> ::- [https://youtu.be/PgUOOwnZcDU?si=MuGoqdhMgxnKbFSq The Physics of Countersteering]<br /> ::: Illustrates centripetal force, not mentioning that the curve that the motorcycle is following is caused by turning the handlebars and wheel away from neutral.<br /> <br /> ::- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvdB6pMdx0 One Finger Counter Steering Demonstration]<br /> <br /> ::- [https://youtu.be/7wWJaeqr7aY?si=S-urooL-Sbt4qODS Debunking the Myth: Counter Steering at Low Speeds]<br /> ::: Countersteering is what ''causes'' our weight to shift into a turn.<br /> ::: Fast or slow makes no difference. We must steer in the opposite direction of the way we want to turn in order to shift our weight in the direction of the turn.<br /> ::: "Countersteering makes the bike de-stabilize." As soon as our weight shifts in the opposite direction of the countersteer, the bike will start to lean in the direction we want to turn. Then the geometry of the frame -- which causes "the caster effect of trail" -- will cause the front wheel to turn ''into'' the direction of the desired turn. <br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21605 How to ride a bike 2025-12-13T11:29:56Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Links */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] <br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike]<br /> ::: The experimenters fitted a second fixed handlebar that had working throttle and brake but that could not turn the wheel. When holding on to the fixed handlebar, no amount of moving their weight around would allow the riders to make an effective turn. The necessary weight shift that makes turning possible comes from momentarily steering in the direction opposite to the direction of the desired turn.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFEnjo7fz4 How to use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn Your Motorcycle]<br /> <br /> ::- [https://youtu.be/PgUOOwnZcDU?si=MuGoqdhMgxnKbFSq The Physics of Countersteering]<br /> ::: Illustrates centripetal force, not mentioning that the curve that the motorcycle is following is caused by turning the handlebars and wheel away from neutral.<br /> <br /> ::- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvdB6pMdx0 One Finger Counter Steering Demonstration]<br /> <br /> ::- [https://youtu.be/7wWJaeqr7aY?si=S-urooL-Sbt4qODS Debunking the Myth: Counter Steering at Low Speeds]<br /> ::: Countersteering is what ''causes'' our weight to shift into a turn.<br /> ::: Fast or slow makes no difference. We must steer in the opposite direction of the way we want to turn in order to shift our weight in the direction of the turn.<br /> ::: "Countersteering makes the bike de-stabilize." As soon as our weight shifts in the opposite direction of the countersteer, the bike will start to lean in the direction we want to turn. Then the geometry of the frame will cause the front wheel to turn into the direction of the desired turn. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21604 How to ride a bike 2025-12-13T11:25:21Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Links */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] <br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike]<br /> ::: The experimenters fitted a second fixed handlebar that had working throttle and brake but that could not turn the wheel. When holding on to the fixed handlebar, no amount of moving their weight around would allow the riders to make an effective turn. The necessary weight shift that makes turning possible comes from momentarily steering in the direction opposite to the direction of the desired turn.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFEnjo7fz4 How to use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn Your Motorcycle]<br /> <br /> ::- [https://youtu.be/PgUOOwnZcDU?si=MuGoqdhMgxnKbFSq The Physics of Countersteering]<br /> ::: Illustrates centripetal force, not mentioning that the curve that the motorcycle is following is caused by turning the handlebars and wheel away from neutral.<br /> <br /> ::- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvdB6pMdx0 One Finger Counter Steering Demonstration]<br /> <br /> ::- [https://youtu.be/7wWJaeqr7aY?si=S-urooL-Sbt4qODS Debunking the Myth: Counter Steering at Low Speeds]<br /> ::: Countersteering is what ''causes'' our weight to shift into a turn.<br /> ::: Fast or slow makes no difference. We must steer in the opposite direction of the way we want to turn in order to shift our weight in the direction of the turn.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21603 How to ride a bike 2025-12-09T18:04:58Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Links */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] <br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike]<br /> ::: The experimenters fitted a second fixed handlebar that had working throttle and brake but that could not turn the wheel. When holding on to the fixed handlebar, no amount of moving their weight around would allow the riders to make an effective turn. The necessary weight shift that makes turning possible comes from momentarily steering in the direction opposite to the direction of the desired turn.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFEnjo7fz4 How to use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn Your Motorcycle]<br /> <br /> ::- [https://youtu.be/PgUOOwnZcDU?si=MuGoqdhMgxnKbFSq The Physics of Countersteering]<br /> ::: Illustrates centripetal force, not mentioning that the curve that the motorcycle is following is caused by turning the handlebars and wheel away from neutral.<br /> <br /> ::- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvdB6pMdx0 One Finger Counter Steering Demonstration]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21602 How to ride a bike 2025-12-08T13:58:53Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Links */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] <br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike]<br /> ::: The experimenters fitted a second fixed handlebar that had working throttle and brake but that could not turn the wheel. When holding on to the fixed handlebar, no amount of moving their weight around would allow the riders to make an effective turn. The necessary weight shift that makes turning possible comes from momentarily steering in the direction opposite to the direction of the desired turn.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFEnjo7fz4 How to use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn Your Motorcycle]<br /> <br /> ::- [https://youtu.be/PgUOOwnZcDU?si=MuGoqdhMgxnKbFSq The Physics of Countersteering]<br /> ::: Illustrates centripetal force, not mentioning that the curve that the motorcycle is following is caused by turning the handlebars and wheel away from neutral.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21601 How to ride a bike 2025-12-08T13:55:24Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Links */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] <br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike]<br /> ::: Illustrates centripetal force, not mentioning that the curve that the motorcycle is following is caused by turning the handlebars and wheel away from neutral.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFEnjo7fz4 How to use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn Your Motorcycle]<br /> <br /> ::- [https://youtu.be/PgUOOwnZcDU?si=MuGoqdhMgxnKbFSq The Physics of Countersteering]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21600 How to ride a bike 2025-12-08T13:52:16Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Links */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] <br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFEnjo7fz4 How to use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn Your Motorcycle]<br /> <br /> ::- [https://youtu.be/PgUOOwnZcDU?si=MuGoqdhMgxnKbFSq The Physics of Countersteering]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21599 How to ride a bike 2025-12-04T17:28:53Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Links */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] <br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFEnjo7fz4 How to use Counter Steering to Lean and Turn Your Motorcycle]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21598 How to ride a bike 2025-12-04T13:32:58Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Links */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] <br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21597 How to ride a bike 2025-12-04T13:29:07Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Links */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] <br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No Body Steering (BS) Bike]<br /> <br /> ::– [ ]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21596 How to ride a bike 2025-12-04T13:22:24Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Links */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] <br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5qZ8fuW5o Counter Steering Explained: Master This Life-Saving Skill]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA No BS Bike]<br /> <br /> ::– [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClmFaHuJUDU&t=490s Twist of the Wrist 2]<br /> <br /> ::– [ ]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21595 How to ride a bike 2025-12-04T09:39:54Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Links */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] <br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> ::: We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> ::: In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things. We have to act promptly and decisively.<br /> <br /> ::: In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> ::: Verify these truths for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> ::: Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> ::: The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/bxu6BJ711vg How to Ride a Bike: The Tacit Skill of Countersteering]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=Countersteering&diff=21594 Countersteering 2025-12-04T09:37:49Z

<p>Mxmsj: Redirected page to How to ride a bike</p> <hr /> <div>#REDIRECT [[How to ride a bike]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21593 How to ride a bike 2025-12-04T09:33:01Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Links */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] <br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that mistake redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> We have to turn '''TOWARD''' the obstacle momentarily in order to avoid hitting it!<br /> <br /> In an emergency, we do not have time to think about these things.<br /> <br /> In motorcycle safety courses, riders are taught to practice this emergency maneuver until it becomes second nature to them.<br /> <br /> Verify these things for yourself in a safe space.<br /> <br /> Practice emergency countersteering in a safe space.<br /> <br /> Teach your friends about countersteering.<br /> <br /> The life you save may be your own.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21592 How to ride a bike 2025-12-04T09:30:08Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Links */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] <br /> ::: Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> We have to turn TOWARD the obstacle first in order to avoid it!<br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21591 How to ride a bike 2025-12-04T09:28:52Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Inertia matters */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] -- Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> We have to turn TOWARD the obstacle first in order to avoid it!<br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21590 How to ride a bike 2025-12-04T09:28:26Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* Newton's Law */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Inertia matters ==<br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] -- Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> We have to turn TOWARD the obstacle first in order to avoid it!<br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21589 How to ride a bike 2025-12-04T09:27:40Z

<p>Mxmsj: /* How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? */</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == Newton's Law ==<br /> <br /> [[File:Countersteering serquence.png]]<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] -- Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> We have to turn TOWARD the obstacle first in order to avoid it!<br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=File:Countersteering_serquence.png&diff=21588 File:Countersteering serquence.png 2025-12-04T09:25:33Z

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Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21587 How to ride a bike 2025-12-04T07:46:09Z

<p>Mxmsj: </p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> ::– The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> == How do we make a turn on a bike? ==<br /> ::– We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> ::– We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> ::– We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> == How do we get out of a turn? ==<br /> ::– We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> ::– The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> ::– Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> ::– We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> == How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us? ==<br /> ::– We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> ::– This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> ::– After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> <br /> == This is tacit knowledge ==<br /> <br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> <br /> ::– [https://youtu.be/Y5qFLHclsWU?si "Countersteering - How to save your life on a motorcycle"] -- Four times the motorcyclist turns the wheel to the right. Each time that redirects him back into the path of the oncoming fire truck! <br /> <br /> We have to turn TOWARD the obstacle first in order to avoid it!<br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=How_to_ride_a_bike&diff=21586 How to ride a bike 2025-12-04T07:41:40Z

<p>Mxmsj: Created page with "Countersteering is not optional. It's the law. == How do we keep from falling on a bike? == We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant. We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!). The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from gett..."</p> <hr /> <div>Countersteering is not optional.<br /> <br /> It's the law.<br /> <br /> == How do we keep from falling on a bike? ==<br /> We cannot turn in the opposite direction from the way we are falling. If we do, we will just fall faster. The bike will move away from the direction in which we are falling but our body will accelerate even faster toward the dreaded face-plant.<br /> We turn the handlebars in the same direction that we are falling (!).<br /> The frame accelerates and comes under us, keeping us from getting hurt.<br /> How do we make a turn on a bike?<br /> We turn the handlebars in the opposite direction from the way we want to go.<br /> The bicycle heads in the wrong direction.<br /> Our weight shifts to the desired direction on the bicycle.<br /> We start to fall in the desired direction.<br /> We turn in the desired direction in order to keep from falling.<br /> How do we get out of a turn?<br /> We turn in the direction that we are turning.<br /> The bicycle will go deeper into the turn.<br /> Our weight will shift to the other side of the bicycle, bringing us upright.<br /> We then have to turn out of the turn to bring the bike back under our center of gravity.<br /> How do we keep from hitting something that is on a collision course with us?<br /> We turn toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> The bicycle heads toward the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> Our weight shifts to the other side of the bicycle.<br /> This causes us to start falling away from the person or thing we do not want to hit.<br /> After our weight shifts, we can then turn the handlebars away from the obstacle.<br /> Any child who has learned how to ride a bike knows these rules, even if they do not know that they know them. There is no other way to make a turn on a bicycle. Because we have tacit knowledge of the principles of how our momentum reacts to the movement of the bicycle frame, the fact that we may have a false theory of how to ride the bicycle does not keep us from obeying the rules while verbally denying that we do so.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Polanyi]]</div>

Mxmsj https://moleski.net/cacwiki/index.php?title=Pleroma&diff=21585 Pleroma 2025-11-24T18:41:19Z

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