Day Ten
Part 1 Chapter 10
"Impediments to Spiritual Progress (concluded)"
After reading the beginning of this chapter, were you inclined to berate yourself? Some temperaments are more easily given to associate weaknesses or faults with diminished value of self. Sometimes an emotional response can be a powerful inhibitor to rising and trying again. Monsignor's words are worth repeating:
"Never abandon your resolutions because you are unsuccessful. You
perhaps have suddenly fallen after taking a resolution that to you
appeared most firm. Why be cast down, discouraged, and groaning over
your misfortune? Ah! How much pride is often found at the bottom of
those vexations which follow upon your falls!
A person who is truly humble, instead of feeding on grief, rises at once, and, relying more on the mercy
and goodness of God than on her own strength, takes up the march again.
To learn to profit by our falls is one of the secrets of perfection, and
an essential requisite of spiritual progress."
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