An epitome of the priestly life

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thought to thyself that thou mayst stir up in the the grace hicli thou has received through the imposition O haniis. The greates of the sinis ere Surelymore holy and more vallant than thoia; nevertheles they id not belleve thatthey could without the aid of et periodso recollection, persevere in thei firstoliarity. In holy retrea the aintly t. Charies was stili more sanctified the jus St. Francis a stili more justis ed, and the pure St. Ignatius a stili more purified.

io rema in lone in the desert for fortydays that thou mitis learn to Sanctibihysol in like manner. My on, ive to thyset an account of th steWard Ship. Consideriso thine early years hichthou Spentes in in and whicli thou hasthewalle in ille bitternes of thy oui, but the more recent years hicli thou hastpassed in the angeli state, in the prieSthood and the apoStolate.

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thou artinaware oscit.

Perhaps thou has omitted many good Works, done much vii, and os no ad- Verto it perhaps thou ar no in thestatem grace, and et os no fear. Perhaps thou has neglected important duties and givest litile thought to it thouremainest trustin and consident hecausethou has the nam os hein aliVe. Verily m Son it osten happens thatthose ho are the more hol in the estimation os me are in ali the reater

danger On account of thei to great confidenCe. Return to the eari, come into Soli-

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What of thine ossice What of thyministry What of th humility,

patience, obedience What, bove all

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ment of good. YOS, F ΟΠ, theSe an many ther graces halt thou in in these spiritual

thou ari absent rom the hol retreat. Anythus halt thou cause the irreparabie ossis a vas store os merit in his

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life and of higher grades of lor in

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that man canalve; hat ali the riches of the wori in comparison illi Sanctitywhicli purchases ternat appine883Verily, ni a litti diast. Ome, here- fore, and folio me into the desert. O my son, i What Posse to the were grante to any of thy brother riesis Ivli are O sussering in the ames os purgatory, With hat alacrity, hinkest thou, Ouid they not runcinio solitude, inorderit puris themselves of the remainso sin and to perfeci thei sanctityl

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Alas, perhaps they are there hecausethey were ianwillin in times ast torecollec themselves in solitude. And thou my son, maystae there ne day ecause thou didst neglecto take par in the spiritual exercises of the

farthing. Do therefore now What is in thyiowerlest, like them, thou mayst hereaster lamen and wee in a in e ause thouditis no follo the spiritual exerciSes of the retreat.

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is injurious to health ather than beneficiat, enervates the oui and render illos fit so the atly uties.