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.
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