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    When St. Francis Borgia heard it said that anyone was a saint, he   
   used to answer, "He is, if he is mortified" In this way he himself   
   became so great a saint; for he exercised himself in mortification to   
   such a degree that only that day seemed to him truly wretched in which   
   he had not undergone some mortification, either bodily or spiritually.   
      
    When a young monk once asked an aged saint why, among so many who aim   
   at perfection, so few are found perfect, he replied, "Because in order   
   to be perfect it is necessary to die wholly to one’s own inclinations,   
   and there are few who arrive at this."   
      
    ("A Year with the Saints"  March - Mortification)   
      
      
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   Prayer to the Sacred Heart   
      
   May all the words that I speak be dipped   
   in the Blood of Thy Sacred Heart,   
   O Jesus, that they may be so many arrows   
   to pierce the hearts of all who hear   
   them with love for Thee.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)