• Meditation • In receiving the ashes, ask God that this spirit of penance may inspire you, accompany your fasting, and sanctify it. External fasting is of little value; it must also humble your spirit while mortifying your flesh. The effect that the reception of the ashes ought to produce in you is to make penance a part of all your behavior and to make you fast with your eyes, your tongue, and your heart: your eyes, by great recollection and a turning aside from whatever might distract you; your tongue, by exact silence, which will cut you off from creatures in order to be attached only to God during this holy season; your heart, by renouncing entirely all thoughts that might distract you, draw you away, and interrupt your communication with God. The results of Christian fasting are mortification of the senses and of selfish inclinations and detachment from creatures. —St. John La Baptist de la Salle, Meditations
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