Father Casimir Wyszynski

88 Z YGMUNT P ROCZEK , MIC, P H D 3. How can anyone call himself humble if he raises himself above others and disrespects his neighbor; if he avoids humble service or performs it with great sorrow, reluc- tance, and complaining whenever he is forced to do it? 4. How can a person have deep faith if he doubts the truths of the holy faith and does not fulfill the obligations com- manded by faith? Faith consists not so much in words and thought, but in the fulfillment of the commandments of our holy religion. 5. How can a man be considered pious if he is too lazy to at- tend devotions, spends more time in idleness than in prayer, and lets his thoughtswander somewhere elsewhile praying; if he does not remember that God is present everywhere and breaks the commandments of God and the Church? 6. Howcan one be called obedient if he does not obey his par- ents, superiors, and teachers; if he does things only under coercion or because it pleases him, refusing to do anything contrary to his own likes and whims? The virtue of obedi- ence consists in doing what we are instructed to do and not what we like. 7. How can we call someone poor in spirit who continues to cling in his heart to earthly goods, placing his hope and the goals of his life in these things instead of in God; or some- onewho, despite taking a vowof poverty, still possesses or desires to possess what he should have renounced; who complains upon finding himself in poverty or does not agree with the will of God? 8. How can aman be considered patient if he does not accept willingly all difficulties and crosses that God in His good- ness sends him, so that he could grow in perfection, but complains and even curses instead? Or who, should he suf- fer any wrong from his neighbor, desires revenge? 9. How can one be considered compassionate or merciful if he does not perform works of mercy, has no compassion