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practising all the virtues. Close to the Heavenly Babe I will put
Humility in the role of a Mummy. In my love for this dear Child,
I will make sure that this Mummy Humility will serve him,
comfort him and help him. Hence I will strive to have a most
lowly idea of myself, to have esteem for others, to keep silent
when others praise me, to seek humiliation, to deny myself in
everything, to be sincerely glad if others are preferred to me, if
I am humbled, corrected or even insulted, and never to shun
opportunities for humbling my pride.

As first Ladies-in-waiting at the service of the Heavenly
Babe I will post Patience and Sweetness. Therefore, during
this holy season, I will avoid getting impatient and hold back
even the slightest harsh word, nor will I not get upset by the
indiscretion of others, perhaps, not get annoyed at the
insistent demands of the little girls, and in correcting them I will
be always very kind and gentle.

I will attend to the needs of the Heavenly Babe by a
genuine, or I should say, an extraordinary charity. Every
morning I will renew my vow of charity in my Holy Communion,
and I will use every care to practise it with everyone, imagining
that I am attending to the Holy Child himself.
As a doorkeeper of the Crib I will post Fervour and Inner
Recollection. I will frequently ask the Heavenly Child to grant
me these two virtues for charity’s sake, and on my part I will
co-operate by doing everything willingly, gladly, thoroughly
well: I will remain in the presence of God as much as I can,

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