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Rh sinner to receive forgiveness. And in this, finding a fresh ground for sorrow for having offended so kind a Father, resolve, with more purpose than ever, that you will never offend Him any more, with His help, in company with the Blessed Virgin, your Guardian Angel, and any Saint in particular, or patron.

VERY other passion is overcome by being faced and resisted, even though we receive a wound in the attack, and by challenging it anew to the battle, till we master every movement of it, both great and small. But this shameful passion must not only not be provoked, but every possible incentive to it must be removed out of the way.

The temptation of the flesh is conquered and the impure passion mortified by flight, and not by an encounter face to face.

A regular life, sincere intentions, past trials and victories, relationships, meanness or ugliness in appearance, which do not threaten danger, and whatever else may seem to betoken security, are not sufficient grounds for not taking