Hate Sin

Live with a deep hatred for sin, in holy humility, calling at every moment for mercy and light. If there is this holy humility, we become like Jesus, who hates sin more than anything else. If we are continually struggling to overcome our defects, then we are certainly pleasing to God.

The Redeeming Body of Christ

Make your whole body holy! We can hope to receive from Jesus the grace to be interiorly and exteriorly holy, holy in body. And this we hope through the sufferings of His passion, particularly through the scourging, the crowning with thorns, and through His labor and pain in carrying the cross. If ever there were an innocent body, it was the body of Jesus.

Psalm 51

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan
the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to
Bath–sheba.
1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy
lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy
tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse
me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is
ever before me.
4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done
this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be
justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou
judgest.
5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did
my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts:
and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know
wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash
me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones
which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine
iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a
right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not
thy holy spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and
uphold me with thy free spirit.
13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and
sinners shall be converted unto thee.
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God
of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of
thy righteousness.
15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall
shew forth thy praise.
16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I
give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a
broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not
despise.
18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build
thou the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of
righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt
offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine
altar.

Reference: Saint and Thought for Every Day
The Daughters of St Paul and Rev James Alberione

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