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Notes of spiritual retreats and instructions
Notes of spiritual retreats and instructions Author:John Morris Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: can say from your hearts, " Whatever He wants He shall have." Don't be content till you feel you have not one hindrance. Your disposition should be a help, your ... more »past life a help, your family a help. All the excuses we make are absolutely unjustifiable. Go to God, tell Him you believe it, you know there is no valid excuse. Who could think such nonsense as that anything could rightly stand between him and God ? What does God want of me in my retreat ? That I should make good meditations, good examens of conscience, good confessions, good communions, that there should be a vast improvement in the way in which I perform my duties, that I should acquire habits of prayer and recollection. See if you cannot raise the tone of your family circle, attend better to your household, do your daily work in a manner conducive to God's praise. Reformation of life is wanted. Open your mind and heart. Long for the fulfilment of God's will in you, and go to Him from whom alone grace can be obtained for it. FIRST DAY. [8.30 P.M.] THE MALICE OF SIN. The Will of God comes to us under grave precept, God commanding those things He is bound to command—commandments so essentially necessary that to refuse to conform our hearts to them is to establish enmity with God. We are to meditate on the malice of sin. We cannot measure it fully, for God alone knows its real malice. But we can make a study of it and learn a great deal about it. First Prelude.-—To imagine our souls imprisoned and cast out among the brutes. Second Prelude.—Petition, that seeing the consequences of one grievous sin I should entertain the shame and confusion befitting one who has sinned frequently. I.—First. The sin of the angels. We are speaking of those nearest to God—those whom He had created with such glorious i...« less