Prayers & Reflections for December 20

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

Chapter IV
Reflections on Prayer

At least three times a day deny yourself some tiny, lawful legitimate pleasure, such as the extra cigarette, the second drink, the extra lump of sugar in order to discipline your spirit and keep mastery over yourself for the love of God.

These little "deaths" are so many rehearsals for the final death.

Dying is amasterpiece and to do it well, we must die daily: "If anyone wishes to come after me...let him take up his cross daily" (Luke 9;29).

[Continued tomorrow]
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From:
The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
(C) 1943, P.J. Kenedy & Sons