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LITTLE PRACTICES

FOR THE OBSERVANCE OF HOLY LENT
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1. I intend to unite myself in spirit with all those who
during this time are practising the strictest penance and
observing fasting with rigour; with all these I too offer the little I
can do, and I will offer it to you, my God, as a penance for my
own sins and for those of the whole world.

2. In place of fasting, I beg you, my God, to be pleased
with the act of obedience that I make in refraining from it; I
would do it gladly, and I pray you to let my Superior know if I
am truly justified in not fasting, because I want to abide with
peace of mind by his advice.

3. If I cannot do much, I will do little; however, I promise
that I will most faithfully carry out all the particular things that I
am fixing for myself, according to what I shall be allowed in
obedience.

4. I will sleep half-an-hour less, that is, 6½ hours. As
soon as I wake up in the night, I will get up from bed and pay a

short visit and pray for the conversion of sinners. I will spend
as much extra time as I can in holy Meditation.

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