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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."; | 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."; | ||
maxim[5][2] = "Let him remember also that when he says the | 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."; | ||
maxim[5][3] = "Men are generally the carpenters of their own crosses."; | maxim[5][3] = "Men are generally the carpenters of their own crosses."; | ||
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."; | 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."; | ||
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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."; | 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."; | ||
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 which they hold of God."; | 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 which they hold of God."; | ||
maxim[10][9] = "In saying the | maxim[10][9] = "In saying the Our Father, we ought to reflect that we have God for our Father in heaven, and so go on, making a sort of meditation of it word by word."; | ||
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>"; | 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>"; | ||
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."; | 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."; | ||
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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.