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DAY OF RECOLLECTION - RESOLUTIONS
30 October 1830
My gentle Jesus, relying on your powerful help, I
resolve, this month:
1. To consider each day as the last day of my life, and
so to spend it in a saintly way as if I were sure it would be the
last; three times a day to remind myself of this, and of the
resolutions as well.
2. In order to acquire inner recollection and real union
with Jesus Christ, to strive by every means, this month, to ‘die’
to all visible things, and so ...
I will die to all visible things through my eyes: by
resolving to look only at: The Crucified Lord, Mary, the Saints,
Heaven, the Sacred Monstrance where the Blessed
Sacrament is exposed, and things I need to look at for some
precise reason; for the rest, I will keep my eyes down, never
gazing at men, women, decorations, ornaments or paintings,
imposing buildings, curiosities and ordinary things, but
reserving my eyes only for things related to the glory of God,
to needs of my neighbour and other necessary things; for
everything else, I will keep them as if I did not have them.
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