Principles and Practices - February 12

Do You Want Perfection?

If you aspire to such a pitch of perfection, you must daily do violence to yourself, by courageously attacking and destroying all your evil desires and affections.

In great matters as well as in small, it is necessary, then, that you pre­pare yourself in readiness for this conflict, for he only will be crowned who was brave in the battle.

-The Spiritual Combat.
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From Principles and Practices
Compiled by Rev. J. Hogan of The Catholic Missionary Society
Published by Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., Publishers To The Holy See
Nihil Obstat; Eduardus J. Mahoney, S.T.D. Censor deputatus.
Imprimatur; Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius generalis.
First printed in 1930