for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it! (S. Matt. vii. 13.)

The congregation of sinners is like tow heaped together, and the end of them is a flame of fire. The way of sinners is made plain with stones, and in their end is hell, and darkness, and pains (Ecclus. xxi. 10).

I say then, walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary one to another so that you do not the things that you would (Gal. v. 16).

But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me in the law of sin, that is in my members. Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? (Rom. vii. 23.)

Watch ye, and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh weak (S. Matt. xxvi. 41).

Be subject therefore to God, but resist the devil, and he will fly from you. Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: and purify your hearts, ye double minded (S. Fames iv. 7).

Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it (Ps. cxxvi. 1).

Q. What is the first thing you should do in the morning?

A. I should make the sign of the cross, and say, 0 my God, I offer my heart and soul to Thee.

Q. What should you do next?

A. I should rise diligently, dress myself modestly, and occupy myself with good thoughts.

Q. What are those good thoughts?

A. Such as thoughts on the goodness of God, who grants me this day to labour in it for the salvation of my soul; and that perhaps this day may be my last.

O God my God, to Thee do I watch at break of day. For Thee my soul hath thirsted; for Thee my flesh, O how many ways! In a desert land, and where there is no way, and no water: so in the sanctuary have I come before Thee, to see Thy power and Thy glory (Ps. lxii. 2).

The kingdom of heaven is like to a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And having agreed. with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the marketplace idle. And he said to them: Go you also into my vineyard, and I will give you what shall be just. And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour: and did in like manner. But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them : Why stand you here all the day idle? They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go you also into my vineyard. And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward : Call the labourers and pay them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first (S. Matt. xx. 1).

I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the

Q. And what should you do after you have put on your clothes?

A. I should kneel down to my prayers, and perform my morning exercise.

Q. Should you do any thing more, if you have time and opportunity?

A. Yes; I should hear Mass and spend some time in meditation.

Q. What should you say when you begin any work or employment?

A. O my God, I do this for the love of Thee.

Q. And what should you do as to your eating, drinking, sleeping, and diversion?

A. I should use them

night cometh when no man can work (S. John ix. 4).

And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years, take thy rest, eat, drink, make good cheer. But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee; and whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? (S. Luke xii. 19.)

From the morning watch even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord (Ps. cxxix. 6).

If I have remembered Thee upon my bed, I will meditate on Thee in the morning because Thou hast been my helper (Ps. lxii. 7).

From the rising of the sun even to the going down, My Name is great among the gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to My Name a clean oblation for My Name is great among the gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts (Mal. i. 11).

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I will wash my hands among the innocent and will compass Thy altar, O Lord. That I may hear the voice of Thy praise and tell of all Thy wondrous works. I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of Thy house and the place where Thy glory dwelleth (Ps. xxv. 6).

And He said to them: How is it that you sought Me? did you not know, that I must be about My Father's business? (S. Luke ii. 49.)

All whatsoever you do in word or in work, all things do ye in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him (Col. iii. 17).

And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there. And

them to please God.

Q. What grace do you say before meals?

A. Bless us, O Lord, and these Thy gifts, which we are going to receive from Thy bounty, through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Q. What grace do you say after meals?

A. We give Thee thanks, Almighty God, for all Thy benefits, who livest and reignest, world without end. Amen. May the souls of the faithful, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

Q. By what means should you sanctify your ordinary actions and employments of the day?

A. By often raising up my heart to God whilst I am about them, and saying some short prayer to Him.

Q. What should you do as often as you hear the clock strike?

A. I should turn myself to God, and say to Him, "O my God, teach

ciples, to the marriage (S. John ii. 1).

And the words of my mouth shall be such as may please: and the meditation of my heart always in Thy sight. O Lord, my helper and my redeemer (Ps. xviii. 15).

That they should seek God, if haply they may feel after Him or find Him, although He be not far from every one of us for in Him we live and move and are: as some also of your own poets said (Acts xvii. 27).

My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver (Job vii. 6).

And immediately the cock crew. And Peter remembered the word of Jesus which He had said: Before

me to love Thee in time and eternity."

Q. What should you do as often as you receive any blessing from God?

A. I should immediately make Him a return of thanksgiving and love.

Q. What should you do when you find yourself tempted to sin?

A. I should make the sign of the cross upon my heart, and call upon God as earnestly as I can, saying, "Lord, save me, or I perish."

Q. And what if you have fallen into sin?

A. I should cast myself in spirit at the feet of Christ, and humbly beg His pardon, saying, "Lord, be merciful to me a sinner.

the cock crow, thou wilt deny Me thrice. And going forth he wept bitterly (S. Matt. xxvi. 74).

And Jesus answering, said: Were not ten made clean? and where are the nine? There is no one found to return and give glory to God, but this stranger. And He said to him: Arise, go thy way, for thy faith hath made thee whole (S. Luke xvii. 17).

But seeing the wind strong, he was afraid: and when he began to sink, he cried out, saying: Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretching forth His hand took hold of him, and said to him: O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt? (S. Matt. xiv. 30.)

And as Jesus passed from thence, there followed Him two blind men crying out and saying, Have mercy on us, O Son of David (S. Matt. ix. 27).

And the publican standing afar off would not so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven; but struck his breast, saying: O God, be merciful to me a sinner (S. Luke xviii. 13).

I will arise, and will go to my Father, and say to Him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee: I am not now worthy to be called Thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants (S. Luke xv. 18).

And there came a leper to Him, beseeching Him, and kneeling down said to Him: If Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean. And Jesus having compassion on him, stretched forth His hand; and touching him