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 3d. To beg, in all our prayers, meditations and pious exercises, for grace to overcome our predominant fault. This grace we must ask for, particularly during the divine sacrifice of Mass and after holy Communion.

4th. To make, frequently during the day, ejaculatory prayers for the same intention, and to renew our morning resolution not to yield to this our greatest enemy,

5th. To be particularly careful to resist its attacks, what ever it may cost us, and how strongly soever we may find ourselves inclined to yield.

6th. Always to impose on ourselves a suitable penance, when we have been overcome.

It is obvious that, while we are eradicating our vicious habits, we must be acquiring the virtues opposed to them: therefore, we may say, the particular examen has for its object the acquiring of those virtues which will render us most pleasing to God.

See Christian Perfection, vol. 1, Seventh Treatise

In the name of the Father, &c.

Let us enter in spirit into the adorable heart of Jesus; let us place ourselves in the presence of God; let us adore him and give him thanks for all the benefits we hare received from him particularly this day.

MY God! we adore thee through the sacred heart of thy Divine Son, as our Creator and Sovereign Good; we give thee thanks for all thy mercies to us, spiritual and temporal, general and particular, but more especially for the favors bestowed on us this day. May thy holy name be eternally praised and glorified, and may we never be ungrateful for thy bounties. Amen.

Let us ask of our Lord Jesus Christ the grace to discover the sins we have committed this day, and let us beg of him a true sorrow for them.

MY Lord Jesus Christ! Judge of the living and the dead, before whom we must one day appear to give an exact account of our whole life; en-