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5. I will always give up a fourth part of my breakfast,
1
(and put no sugar in my Coffee) , or put very little if someone is
watching me. At lunch I will always make three mortifications,
and I will help myself to only one dish. At supper I will take
only soup, and some bread, if at all. In between meals I will
never take anything except for health reasons, and give it
always to the Lord in the person of his poor people. I will
2
(never) eat fruit. However, if my Parents tell me to do
something different, I will do as they wish.

6. Every day I will apply the discipline for the length of a
3
(quarter-of-an-hour) . Every day, for two hours, I will keep
pebbles under my feet, and during this time I will reflect on the
Passion of Jesus Christ.

7. On Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays I will impose
rigorous ‘fasting’ on my eyes. I will not look at useless things, I

will not lift them from the ground in the street, at home I will
observe only things connected with my duties, and on these
fixed days I will refrain from looking even at the dearest things,
like Heaven, the Crucifix, Our Lady and St Aloysius, or at least
not more than twice a day.

1 The words here put in brackets are in Bartolomea’s paper cancelled by her
Confessor by two horizontal lines.

2 Cancelled and replaced by: on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
3 Cancelled and replaced by: the time of saying the Miserere.

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