Top 10 Practical Guidelines for Holiness

Top 10 Practical Guidelines for Holiness

by Fr. Francis Xavier Seelos, C.Ss.R

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                               Fr. Seelos

1. Go to Mass with devotion. [Edit : If this is not possible devoutly read the Mass text from a good missal and make a Spiritual Communion. Recommended are the Fr. Lasance Missal or St. Andrew Daily Missal.] 

2. Spend a half hour to reflect upon your main failing & make resolutions to avoid it. 

3. Do daily spiritual reading for at least 15 minutes, if a half hour is not possible.

 4. Say the rosary every day.[Edit : 15 decades if possible. This can be spaced out over the whole day in 3 sets of 5].

5. Also daily, if at all possible, visit the Blessed Sacrament; and toward evening, meditate on the Passion of Christ for a half hour.

 6. Conclude the day with evening prayer & an examination of conscience over all the faults & sins of the day. 

7. Every month make a review of the month in confession. 

8. Choose a special patron every month & imitate that patron in some special virtue.

9. Precede every great feast with a novena, that is, nine days of devotion. 

10. Try to begin and end every activity with a "Hail Mary."