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gain the whole world, if he lose his own soul; that the sensual, the covetous, the worldling, the libertine, the detractor, and such as are insensible to the miseries of the poor, shall have no share in His heavenly kingdom; and that in order to become His disciple, I must take up my cross and follow Him." I receive, with my whole heart, all these sacred maxims. Grant me the grace to put them in practice; for to what purpose should I declare myself Thy disciple, if I were not to live according to the maxims of Thy Gospel?