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Do we have all the hatred and all the aversion for the world which Our Lord requires, and which his example must inspire in us?
Examens particuliers sur divers sujets [Examination of Conscience upon Special Subjects (1690)
Have we condemned the world's sentiments? Are we opposed to its maxims? And have we made all our efforts to abolish its laws and overturn its accursed customs?
Examens particuliers sur divers sujets [Examination of Conscience upon Special Subjects (1690)
Have we raised ourselves up to that outlook opposed to the world, and have we tried to destroy the esteem and love for it in all hearts?
Examens particuliers sur divers sujets [Examination of Conscience upon Special Subjects (1690)
Have we had the colossal aversion to the world's public assemblies, to its spectacles and all its pomp?
Examens particuliers sur divers sujets [Examination of Conscience upon Special Subjects (1690)
Have we despised what the world esteems and esteemed what it despises? Have we fled what it wants and wanted what it flees? Have we loved what it hates and hated what it loves?
Examens particuliers sur divers sujets [Examination of Conscience upon Special Subjects (1690)
Have we referred to it with indignation, distance and contempt; and have we made it clear that it is filled only with corruption, vanity and falsehood?
Examens particuliers sur divers sujets [Examination of Conscience upon Special Subjects (1690)
Finally, have we lamented along with the Saints that we see ourselves constrained to endure in the world; and have we desired to leave it in order to flee the danger that there will be something it corrupts?
Examens particuliers sur divers sujets [Examination of Conscience upon Special Subjects (1690)
Have we regarded it as the greatest enemy of Christianity, which can not abide that Jesus Christ reigns over the faithful, crying ceaselessly through the mouth of its fans, “We do not want this man to reign over us” (Saint Anthony).
Examens particuliers sur divers sujets [Examination of Conscience upon Special Subjects (1690)
Have we fled the company of worldly persons, whom the saints, especially the Ecclesiastics, advise us to avoid like the plague, whom one should see only by necessity, and from whom we should separate ourselves as vigilantly as we can?
Examens particuliers sur divers sujets [Examination of Conscience upon Special Subjects (1690)