Manual of Christian Perfection: Especially Designed for the Instruction of Novices Who Sincerely Desire to Enter a Religious Community; It May Be Read With Much Fruit by All Those Who Wish to Lead Exe - Hardcover

J. B. Scaramelli

9780484322713: Manual of Christian Perfection: Especially Designed for the Instruction of Novices Who Sincerely Desire to Enter a Religious Community; It May Be Read With Much Fruit by All Those Who Wish to Lead Exe

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Excerpt from Manual of Christian Perfection: Especially Designed for the Instruction of Novices Who Sincerely Desire to Enter a Religious Community; It May Be Read With Much Fruit by All Those Who Wish to Lead Exemplary Lives

To embrace a religious life, two things are required: on the part of a postulant or novice, proper intention, and on the part of God, true 'vocation.

Purely human motives must be ignored by the candidates for the admission into a religious order, for they are in compatible with a state that has for primary end the super natural life of the soul. The following motives should be shunned: a desire to escape the troubles and vicissitudes common in the world; security from bodily want; an easy and comfortable life; disappointment in some important expectation; the love of a person who has become a religious and from whom the separation seems unbearable; excessive grief over the loss of relatives and friends, for which con solation is sought among sympathizing religious; mistaken condescension to parents who unduly urge their sons or daughters to enter a monastery or convent, etc.

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