To do great mortifications some days, and nothing on others, is not the spirit of penance. |
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Daughter, I ask you many mortifications to be able to give you, in return, many graces. |
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There isn't enough time to expand on these matters: suffice it to say that I got no inner peace out of those sacrifices and mortifications. |
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We are all asked to offer prayers and mortifications for the sanctity of priests during these months. |
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However, increase them, and also your mortifications. |
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Nicholas possessed an angelic meekness, a guileless simplicity, and a tender love of virginity which he guarded by prayer and extraordinary mortifications. |
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Do we offer mortifications, specific acts of detachment in accord with each one's real possibilities, in order to help these brothers and sisters of ours? |
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We thereby put happy faces on mortifications of our common sense. |
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But most of these ritualistic mortifications leave me a little queasy. |
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The chief forms of penance are: accomplishing spiritual exercises, bearing some mortifications or privations, performing some work for the common good. |
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