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PRACTICAL SAYINGS OF ST. ALOYSIUS.
Three for each Sunday Service.
1. The uncertainty of salvation increases with the length of our lives.
2. There is reason to fear that the angels who now intercede for us with God, will hereafter stand in judgment against us.
3. Hast thou sinned, be thy fault ever so small, have immediate recourse to God for pardon and the grace of amendment. Remain not one moment in that disorder.
1. Such alone have attained the height of perfection as have treated their body like a beast of burden, and kept it under subjection by the means which penance suggests.
2. Do not put off to old age, unequal to such a burden, the voluntary chastisements of the body. That part of life should chiefly be restrained by penance which, without that, is most exposed to ruin.
3. We ought to look upon our body as a slave given over to our care, and ourselves accountable to God for whatever rebellion it is guilty of. This is a full answer to such as would deter us from the exercise of mortification.
1. Christian fortitude arises from the fear of God; for who fears him can fear nothing else.
2. It is a dangerous thing to have one's affections engaged on creatures and the goods of this world.
3. A want of due attention to mental prayer,