We read and study to build up our mind. We do exercises to build up our body. Spiritual Exercises build up our spirit. We all pray! We read The Bible!
We strive to do good!
We do more good if we build up our spirit! What is The New Spiritual Exercise? Visualizing! We try to “visualize” our sins in time!
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We begin by looking at this row of 64 dashes. Each of them represents a fifteen minute interval in the 16 hours that we are awake:
7:00 AM: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11:PM.
We know: “Every day, I am awake during 64 fifteen minute periods.” Then, we ask: “How well did I avoid sinful thoughts, words, and actions today?”
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The + symbol lets us visualize that a Perfect Saint would have those 64 fifteen minute periods looking like this!
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + !
A Perfect Saint would not have a single fifteen minute period polluted by a sinful thought, word, or deed!
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We are not Perfect Saints! We see that when we use a minus sign symbol (-) to visualize a sinful thought, desire, word, or deed.
In The New Spiritual Exercise, each + and – symbol represent a Single Minute in one of our fifteen minute periods!
When we spend fifteen minutes reading The Bible or saying a Rosary, each of those fifteen minutes should look like this!
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
When we spend fifteen minutes watching television, each of those fifteen minute periods is filled with contradictions! We may have good thoughts and sinful thoughts in rapid succession!
– – – + + – – + + – – – – + –
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When we go to Judgment, we will see how many plus and minus signs we have accumulated! Rev. 20: 11 tells us! We will all be “standing in front of His Throne, while the book of life is opened”.
That “book of life” shows every minute of our life that we lived on earth. Will our + symbols outnumber our – symbols?
What happens next? “and other books were opened”. They show the effects that we had on other people’s “books of life”!
What is The New Spiritual Exercise? Visualizing!
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