24 September 2023
Lament and grieve because you are still so worldly, so carnal, so
passionate and unmortified,
so full of roving lust, so careless in guarding the external senses, so often
occupied in many vain fancies, so inclined to exterior things and so heedless
of what lies within, so prone to laughter and dissipation and so indisposed
to sorrow and tears, so inclined to ease and the pleasures of the flesh and so
cool to austerity and zeal, so curious to hear what is new and to see the
beautiful and so slow to embrace humiliation and dejection, so covetous of
abundance, so niggardly in giving and so tenacious in keeping, so inconsiderate
in speech, so reluctant in silence, so undisciplined in character, so
disordered in action, so greedy at meals, so deaf to the Word of God, so prompt
to rest and so slow to labor, so awake to empty conversation, so sleepy in
keeping sacred vigils and so eager to end them, so wandering in your attention,
so careless in saying the office, so lukewarm in celebrating, so heartless in
receiving, so quickly distracted, so seldom fully recollected, so quickly moved
to anger, so apt to take offense at others, so prone to judge, so severe in
condemning, so happy in prosperity and so weak in adversity, so often making
good resolutions and carrying so few of them into action.
Thomas à Kempis
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