Choose a topic from Part 2B:
1. Negligence is a lack of due care, a culpable absence ofsolicitude, in meeting or performing the practical duties oflife.
2. Solicitude or proper carefulness is allied to prudence.Hence, a sin against solicitude is a sin against prudence.
3. Although negligence is often a venial sin, it ispossible that it may be a mortal sin; this is the case on twooccasions: (a) when negligence is concerned with somethingnecessary to salvation, and (b) when negligence is a completeremissness about the things of God.
"Obedience is a short cut to perfection."
St Philip Neri
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"The Lord has always revealed to mortals the treasures of his wisdom and his spirit, but now that the face of evil bares itself more and more, so does the Lord bare his treasures more."
St John of the Cross, OCD - Doctor of the Church
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"Spiritual persons ought to be equally ready to experience sweetness and consolation in the things of God, or to suffer and keep their ground in drynesses of spirit and devotion, and for as long as God pleases, without their making any complaint about it."
St Philip Neri
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