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   the salt of Christian mortification and penance, that you may   
   persevere and appear faultless before the judgement-seat of God.   
      
   3. Consider that the spirit of penance and mortification also   
   nourishes the spirit of prayer and devotion. He who serves the   
   appetites of the flesh and grants them all they desire, cannot raise   
   his heart to God in prayer. "The sensual man perceives not those   
   things that are of the spirit of God" (1 Cor 2:14). To be able to   
   pray, you must bridle your senses -- eyes, ears, tongue -- and   
   withdraw from the world. "When you are about to pray, enter into your   
   chamber and shut the door" (Matt 5:6). If you shut the door of your   
   heart in the spirit of penance, you will easily raise it to God and   
   enjoy His Consolations. Pray to St. Peter of Alcantara for this   
   purpose. St. Theresa says that God revealed to her, that whatever   
   would be requested in the name of St. Peter would be granted.   
      
   PRAYER OF THE CHURCH   
   O God, who didst bestow on St. Peter, Thy confessor, the gifts of   
   marvelous penance and lofty contemplation, grant, we beseech Thee,   
   that with his merits pleading for us, we may so mortify the flesh as   
   to embrace more readily the things of heaven. Through Christ our Lord.   
   Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)