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| Chapter XXXVII. An even mind should be preserved in adversity as well as in prosperity. However, evil things must be avoided.
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Chapter XXXVII.
An even mind should be preserved in adversity as well as
in prosperity. However, evil things must be avoided.
186. There is also
that true freedom of the mind from vexation which makes us neither give
way too much in our griefs, nor be too elated in prosperity.288
| 288 Cic. de
Off. I. 21, § 72. | And if they who urge men to
undertake the affairs of the state give such rules, how much
more
ought we who are called
to do duty in the Church, to act thus and do those things which are
pleasing to God, so that Christ’s power may show itself forth in
us. We too must prove ourselves to our Captain, so that our
members may be the weapons of justice; not carnal weapons in which sin
may reign, but weapons strong for God, whereby sin may be
destroyed. Let our flesh die, that in it every sin may die.
And as though living again after death, may we rise to new works and a
new life.
187. These, then, are the services of
fortitude; and full they are of virtuous and seemly duties. But
in all that we do we must look to see, not only if it is virtuous, but
whether it is possible, so that we may not enter upon anything that we
cannot carry out.289
| 289 Cic. de
Off. I. 21, § 73. | Wherefore
the Lord, to use His own word, wills us to flee in the time of
persecution from one city to another;290
so that no one,
whilst longing for the crown of martyrdom, may put himself in the way
of dangers which possibly the weak flesh or a mind indulged could not
bear and endure.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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