Also for those who are not nuns and monk. Can be applied to every lay catholics:
The habit of regular observance sometimes runs up against a danger: namely that of carrying out the prescribed exercises almost mechanically, through habit and without the fervor of devotion. Woe to a religious house when, in place of the fervor of charity, there prevails only the iron discipline of the rules!
A broad and open heart is required. In order that such narrowness may never oppress the heart, it is necessary to feed in it the fire of divine charity with daily exercises and holy meditations.The abbot will feed this flame by means of ---- the daily exercise of mental prayer.
Very simple for everyday mental prayer: read a paragraph from the Bible or Gospel, meditate, reflect, write on diary. Act of contrition. Resolution to improve in certain aspects. Talk to God by your own words. Develop affection to God by your own conversation with Him.
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