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stomach, but also in the head, so that everything will be
done with distraction and tepidity, -and the half of it
will be lost.
3. THE LAST ACTS BEFORE GOING TO BED.
After supper the priest shall make the examination of
conscience, to be followed by the act of contrition and
by other pious acts; then after having recited, with the
face on the floor, the
three times, and after
Hail Mary"
the usual practices in honor of the holy patrons, he
should go to bed.
The following
is the act that we may recite before
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going to bed:
my God ! I thank Thee for having preserved me
this day, and I beseech Thee to vouchsafe to preserve
me also this night, and to protect me from all evil. I
take this repose in order to please Thee, and I intend
each moment that I breathe to love and praise Thee, as
is done by the saints and the elect in heaven.
Mary, my Mother, bless me, and protect me under
thy mantle. My angel guardian, and all my holy
Patrons, intercede for me.
IV.
Exercises that are not Performed Every Day.
i. CONFESSION.
The priest should confess twice or at least once a
week. He should not fail to have a particular Director,
on whom it will be his duty to depend in all his spiritual
exercises, and even in all the temporal affairs that may
be of profit to his soul.
2. THE MONTHLY RETREAT.
Every month he shall make a day of retreat; on this
day he should keep aloof from all temporal affairs, and
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We formula as we have done above for the morn
add this simple
ing exercise. ED.