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1. Openness to grace and defence of the soul 2. Docility to God and mortification of the will 3. Mortification of the passions 4. Purity and custody of the body 5. Mortification of the mind and judgement 6. Mortification of the imagination and memory 7. Mortification of stubbornness and self-love 8. Mortification in decisions and choices 9. Mortification in small daily things 10. Mortification of curiosity and superficiality 11. Presence of God in the interior life 1. Openness to grace and defence of the soul – Do I open my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52344,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52351","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52360,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52351\/revisions\/52360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>– Do I open my soul to God’s grace by seeking to encounter Him in prayer, reading and the sacraments?
\n– Do I take care to close my soul to what harms me spiritually?
\n– Do I allow myself to be voluntarily drawn to images, words or things that defile the heart?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Do I listen to the voice of my conscience and accept what God allows in my life?
\n– Do I obey those who guide and correct me, or do I always want to do things my own way?
\n– Do I persist even when I realise I am wrong?
\n– In my decisions, do I seek God’s will?
\n– Am I convinced that without mortification I cannot grow in faith?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Do I restrain my disordered passions \u2014 anger, impulse, desire \u2014 without immediately giving in to what I like but is not right?
\n– Do I instead cultivate good passions, such as love for God and neighbour?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Do I respect my body and the bodies of others with purity?
\n– Do I avoid occasions of sin and everything that wounds chastity?
\n– Do I look at, listen to or seek things that defile the heart?
\n– Do I avoid all occasions of sin?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Do I seek the truth or only what is convenient for me?
\n– Do I construct arguments to justify myself or judge without knowledge?
\n– Do I get lost in useless curiosities and things that are not helpful?
\n– In conversations and study, do I seek what is necessary?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Do I control my imagination, avoiding feeding it with vain or dangerous images?
\n– Do I return in my mind to bad memories, grudges or situations that cause me to fall?
\n– Do I feed my mind with good things, letting go of the bad?
\n– Do I let myself be constantly distracted?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Do I recognise when others are right and know how to yield in matters of little importance?
\n– Do I always want to have the last word or cling to my ideas out of pride?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– In my decisions, do I truly seek what is good, without letting myself be guided by passions or fear of others’ judgement?
\n– Do I always seek the easiest way or act without thinking?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Do I know how to say small \u2018no\u2019 to myself every day?
\n– Do I always seek comfort? Do I give in to whims and avoid all sacrifice?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Do I control my curiosity? Do I always seek useless novelties?
\n– Do I spread myself thin over many things without going deeper?
\n– Do I jump from one interest to another without perseverance?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Do I invite God into my thoughts and offer Him my interior life?
\n– Do I live with a scattered mind?
\n– Do I know that, to reach holiness, I must acquire interior self-mastery?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"