SPIRITUAL GUIDELINES

Penance, penance, penance.  They only do penance who abstain from licit actions, that is, from those actions which are permissible.  Those who sin commit acts which are illicit, that is, which are not permissible.  They  do penance who deny themselves, who are patient, merciful and forgiving. God's justice demands absolutely what belongs to it.

Your relationship to God should cause you absolute delight in Him; that with your neighbours should give you pleasure in helping them; as to yourself, joy in being unknown and in being held as nothing.  In doing so, your prayers will be heard, your life becomes a kingdom of love and peace, and your  death an eternal blessing.

Beware of ever joking about holy matters, or of doing mechanically or negligently the things that are God's.  Beware of ever associating yourself with anything that even smacks of the least irreverence to God.  For indeed, holy and fearful is His Name.

No one in the world is more unhappy than the lover of money.  Yet even more unhappy is the one who lends money at a rate of interest higher than that assigned by Government, unless there is a just reason, or a just title, such as that of an unusually grave danger of losing one's money, or of not making a greater profit which one might otherwise easily realise, and so on.

From the Writings of St.George Preca, the Maltese Saint.