Charles River Editors
ASIN: B06XR2KRVQ
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 61
*Includes pictures*Includes quotes about Opus Dei by members and its founder*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“But the faithful must also be encouraged to do outward acts of penance, both to keep their bodies under the strict control of reason and faith, and to make amends for their own and other people's sins... St. Augustine issued the same insistent warning: ‘It is not enough for a man to change his ways for the better and to give up the practice of evil, unless by painful penance, sorrowing humility, the sacrifice of a contrite heart and the giving of alms he makes amends to God for all that he has done wrong.’" - Pope John XXIIIThe intentional deprivation of one's most physical and carnal needs is a concept that has existed since the beginning of time, more commonly known as “mortification.” The Bible makes one of the ...