The Spirit of Sacrifice And the Life of Sacrifice in the Religious State
The Spirit of Sacrifice And the Life of Sacrifice in the Religious State
Sylvain Marie Giraud
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ON SIMPLICITY IN THE PRACTICE OF OBEDIENCE. We propose to treat of obedience and its various char- acteristics in the third part of this work, which will be devoted to the consideration of the religious vows; but whilst still speaking of the novitiate, we can not pass by this fair virtue which is so important a factor in training the novice. We shall therefore consider that characteris- tic of obedience which is most necessary at the commence- ment of the religious life, i. E. , simplicity. The... young novice will do well to take as addressed to himself the exhortation of St. Paul to the Philippians: "Be blameless and sincere, children of God" (Phil. Ii. 13). The novice is in fact quite speciall}^ the child of God. Whatever his age may be when he enters the novitiate, he ought to consider himself as being still in those early years of life when one has everything to learn, and that without self-assertion or opposition, but in the simplest, most childlike manner. He may appropriately apply to him- self these words of St.
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