Catholic Practices
- Performance of those devotions promising final salvation. One of suchis to take communion on 9 consecutive first Fridays of the month in honour to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. (Purity may come late in life after practice).
- Frequent confession and communion.
- Trying to understand the Mysteries of the Faith
- Keep constant attention on God, (Avoid excessive attention on oneself and external matters): "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! Gospel of Matthew 6:22
- Constant prayer and acts of perfect charity.
- Prayer to the Holy Spirit
- "Show" God the faults, weakness or elements susceptible for improvement when it's said: "Let us lift up our heart"
- Carry holy and blessed objects close to the heart.
- Put others before ourselves/ Forget ourselves.
- Related to a Pure Heart, it should be considered "unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed" Gospel of John 24.
- Remember the Beatitudes.
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