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Show CARDINAL'S LENTEN COUNSEL. Here are a few timely sentences from an informal infor-mal talk by His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons to the Christ Child Society of the Cathedral, Baltimore, one day last week : "We should not aim to perforin extraordinary things well so much as to perform good things extraordinarily ex-traordinarily well. "The act we may perform does not sanctify us so much as the spirit in which we perform it. We please God in the performance of an ordinary act with devout feeling as if it were the most admirable admir-able act in the world. "Public exercises are better than private exercises, exer-cises, because you do a twofold good you benefit yourselves and you give edification to others by your example. "Moreover, it is difficult for a clergyman to preach before a small congregation, and when he sees a full congregation his zeal is stimulated. The priest is not always like St. Francis de Sales, who said that he could preach to an audience of seven as well as seven thousand. x "Two things are necessary for the performance of your devotions well. You s Would have attention of mind and recollect the work upon which you arc engaged. Your good works should be 'performed "with ihe spirit of prayer and love of God. All your works then become a prayer and an offering to (Jed. To labor is to pray." |