Of doing ordinary actions well
Rodriguez, The Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues, 1929, p. 387
- I. Not to fail any day to do my spiritual duties completely, giving them the full time allotted to them; and when at that time there is some unavoidable occupation to claim me, to make it up at another time.
- II. To make my meditation and my general and particular examens well, observing the additions, and dwelling in my examens on sorrow and confusion for faults, and purpose of amendment, rather than on examining how often I have fallen, for in this is the force and fruit of the examens, and for want of this some usually profit little thereby.
- III. To do any other spiritual duties well, as Mass, Office, Spiritual Reading, and penances, as well public as private, taking care to gather from them the end and fruit for which they are severally ordained, not doing them out of custom, perfunctorily and for form's sake.