The Sanctification of Our Actions.
“He hath done all things well.” — St. Matt. 7:37.
NINTH DAY.
It is upon our actions, but particularly our ordinary actions, that our perfection depends, because they are the most numerous. If we perform them perfectly we will be perfect. Why is it that of two religious who perform the same things, one is an excellent religious, the other is not? It is because one does ordinary things perfectly, the other imperfectly and negligently. — Rodriguez.
When St. Gertrude was young she performed only the same duties as her companions; she even did less, because, on account of her health, she was not permitted to keep every point of the rule to which the others were bound. But what made her more agreeable in the eyes of God was that she did all with more perfection.
Prayer.
O my Saviour, I desire to do perfectly all that I do. Let it be Thou who thinketh in me, speaketh in me I unite all my woks to Thine; give me a part in Thy merits.