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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."; | 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."; | ||
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."; | 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."; | ||
maxim[3][14] = "We may even ask for a spiritual blessing physically by going first to the church of one Saint | 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."; | ||
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."; | 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."; | ||
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."; | 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."; | ||
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maxim[3][22] = "In order to preserve their purity, young men should frequent the Sacraments, and especially confession."; | maxim[3][22] = "In order to preserve their purity, young men should frequent the Sacraments, and especially confession."; | ||
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."; | 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."; | ||
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 | 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."; | ||
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."; | 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."; | ||
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."; | 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."; | ||
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feast[1][18]=""; | feast[1][18]=""; | ||
feast[1][19]="67 Jesuit Martyrs of the Reformation (1593-1792)"; | feast[1][19]="67 Jesuit Martyrs of the Reformation (1593-1792)"; | ||
feast[1][20]="St. Fabian — St. Sebastian"; | feast[1][20]="St. Fabian — St. Sebastian; conversion of Alphonse Ratisbonne (1842)."; | ||
feast[1][21]="St. Agnes"; | feast[1][21]="St. Agnes"; | ||
feast[1][22]="Roe v. Wade (1973)"; | feast[1][22]="Roe v. Wade (1973)"; | ||
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Virgin Mary, Mother of God
- Maxims from September 7 and 8
- 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.”
- When we make this prayer to our Blessed Lady, 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.