Sublime

A patient person has already made his purgatory, if, receiving injuries, he is more concerned with the sin of the offender than with the wrong done to himself; if he willingly prays for his enemies and forgives from his heart; if he does not delay in asking forgiveness of others; if he is more easily moved to compassion than to anger; if he

Prayer O Lord, infuse my heart with the dispositions you gave to the saints. This is my constant prayer. I ask insistently and wait confidently for this grace from your infinite mercy. Amen.

We would envy no one (see 1 Cor 13:4) because we find no joy in pleasing self alone.

Under the general plan of nonresistance one may take the position of imitation.

Place yourself before God in your utter helplessness; consent heartily to the fact of your impotence to slay or make alive yourself; sink down into your own nothingness, in the spirit of meek and patient and trustful surrender to God. Accept every humiliation, look upon every fellow-man who tries or vexes you, as a means of grace to humble you. Use

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself

3. And so all is reduced to the cross, and all consists in dying on it. There is no road that leads to life and to true interior peace except the holy road of the cross and of daily self-denial.