Appendix E.

RULES AND COUNSELS.

1. For Patience with Others.

AIM by GOD's Grace:

To receive every the least accident of life, whether coming directly or indirectly through a human agent, as GOD'S appointment, and think this only, "How would my SAVIOUR have me think, speak, act, in this?"

To turn every memory of pain or foreboding into prayer connected with that pain or foreboding.

As: Good JESU, knit our souls to Thee and in Thee, in love.

Or: Good JESU, keep me ever near

to Thee.

To resist the first rising of painful thoughts with the sign of the Cross, or with prayer, and engage in some occupation as soon as you can.

Resolutely to refuse to entertain any suspicion of any one; and if you find that it has too strong a hold of you, to ask the person, not as if it were true, but as a help to your infirmity.

To withhold your mind from all speculation as to any motives of

others.

To turn from thoughts of anything amiss in any one, and think of something good.

To think, three times in the day, of Heaven, and pray that you may love as you hope to love there.

II. Against Over-sensitiveness.

1. Think of different causes from which seeming neglect may come, as: (a) fatigue, (b) something on mind, (c) indisposition to talk, (d) the

difficulty of talking to a silent person, (e) that they may think you like to be silent.

2. Think of the good and kind qualities of the person.

3. Pray to God to increase the love of both.

4. Try to occupy your mind with something else.

5. Do everything which depends on your own will; be kind and attentive in all things, just the same.

6. Be quite open with any one, with whom you are intimate.

7. Force yourself, little by little, to be less reserved.

8. Resign yourself actively to the Will of God.

III. Against Lack of Charity.

Love is of God.

Pray for the love of GOD, Who Alone can give it, and Who is Love. Do or speak nothing contrary to

love. Every such act is most energetically contrary to your prayers. Dwell on everything which may promote love.

Turn away from any thought which can hinder love.

Good JESU, Who camest to send a fire upon earth,

Melt my soul with the fire of Thy Love,

That I may not for one moment, admit willingly into my soul, any thought contrary to Thy Love.

If you speak unkindly, or, knowingly, are abrupt in consequence of any pain which has been caused you; when alone, stretch out your arms in the form of the Cross, as pleading to our Lord His own Cross, and say—

Good JESU, so nail me to Thy Cross

That I may be dead to myself and my own desires;

And by the virtue and merits of

Thy Cross and Thy Grace

Speak, think, act, only as Thou willest

And exactly what Thou willest. Good JESU, be Thou ever mine. and I Thine.

O Good JESU, Meek and Gentle, Whose Lips were full of grace, Forgive all my ungracious words And give me thoughts and words of love.

IV. Against a tendency to irritation.

Never go to

worried.

when yourself

Never go when off your guard, but only when prepared by GoD's Grace to answer everything sweetly.

Never interrupt.