Holier, Happier, Healthier New Year Identifying & Rooting Out Our Principal Sins VIII

Body & spirit piacular exumen, Ignatian spiritual exercises

Propose virtue beads, Therese’

Ignatius create own intentions today wake out

Count when fall, make a small movement, cognizant movement over the course of the week

Midpoint of the day, reckon small act of contrition

Follow through during the week, see progress

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Next, consider your daily schedule. Think about the situation(s) that is most perturbing. Then role play in your mind how Jesus would handle it.

Way of measure to make progress

Strive holistically to holiness

Humble look to the good in others and self

When encountering a situation for temptation, ask Jesus, then ask Mary for guidance. This deliberate pause allows one to recollect their demeanor.

  1. Prayer, fundamental to success.
  1. Restatement of the why, exhortation.

Holier, Happier, Healthy New Year: Identifying & Rooting Out Our Principal Sins

By knowing oneself, as Socrates would say, is fundamental to the cultivation of the human person and to attain the happiest life possible. Or conversely the unexamined life is not worth living.

Spend some time with these sources: Spiritual Theology, Rooting Out Hidden Faults, My Ideal Jesus, Son of Mary. Take a true stock of one’s own temperaments, character formation (nature & nurture), then set out on an orderly path to form the necessary virtues through a good use of free will. You, and those around you will be the better for it.

Know thyself, and thy faults, and thus live. Augustine

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