Of mortification

Rodriguez, The Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues, 1929, p. 384

I. To mortify myself in things and occasions that offer without my going to seek them, whether they come immediately from God, or come by means of Superiors, or by means of neighbours and brethren, or in any other way, trying to bear them well and profit by them.
II. To mortify myself and overcome myself in everything that is like to hinder me from keeping my rules, and doing my ordinary and daily duties well, spiritual as well as external: because all the faults that we commit therein come of our not overcoming and mortifying ourselves where there is question of taking some trouble, or of not abstaining from some pleasure and gratification.
III. To mortify myself in conducting myself with the modesty that is to be expected of a Religious, especially as regards the eyes and tongue, when there might be any fault therein.
IV. To mortify myself in sundry things that I might lawfully do, as by not leaving my room, by not seeing some curious sight, by not asking about or seeking to know what is no affair of mine, by not saying things that I have a mind to say, and the like. I am to apply the examen to making these acts of mortification so many in the morning and so many in the afternoon, beginning with fewer and gradually adding more, for the practice of these voluntary mortifications, though it be in little things, is very profitable.
V. To mortify myself even in things that I am obliged to do, in this way; when I go to meals, to study, to lecture, to preach, or any other duty that I have a liking for, to mortify first my appetite and will, saying in my heart: ' I have no mind to do this, O Lord, for my own satisfaction, but because Thou willest it.'