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Those who desire light and guidance should have recourse to theteachers God has provided on earth and should pray to God, leaving toHim the ways and means of His answer. the constitutions rule otherwise; but grave matter heredoes not coalesce from many small violations. ulties) and steadfastness (that the soulbe not turned aside from its purpose or wearied by long-continuedopposition). For usually there is no irreverence in suchpractices, and at the worst they are foolish and idle acts.

Augustine says that a good life is the best of all prayers, and thecommand of Christ that we pray always has been understood to mean thatwe should always follow good. First among these potential parts are those whose task ofmoderating, while not of the greatest difficulty, is yet more thanordinarily di --(a) From its naturepollution is a mortal sin, because it is an act of impurity (1494) anda perversion of nature (2534). , infidelity, as whenone denies that Christ was sinless, or blasphemy, as when one defames aSaint).