The Redemptorist Virtue for the month of September :

SEPTEMBER Virtue: Mortification

Patron: St Matthew, Apostle

Text: "He that hates his life in this world, keeps it unto life eternal"
(St. John 12: 25)

RULE IX

MORTIFICATION.

Mortification refers to the Christian ideal of dying to self through deliberate restraint of our unruly passions andappetites. It refers to our struggle against evil inclinations.

Alphonsus distinguishes between external mortification for example, fasting, controlling one's tongue and internal mortification  " the discipline of the heart," overcoming aversions, resentments, dangerous attachments.

While both kinds of mortification are important,  Alphonsus views the internal as both more demanding and more fruitful for spiritual growth.

During September you might reflect on the resentments or dangerous attachments in your life and pray for the grace to overcome them.

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