To accomplish happily one’s own obligations.

To remain silent in the face of offense.

To forget the favor done.

To exempt one’s friends from any kindness to oneself.

To mute our aggressiveness.

Not to condemn opinions which differ from our own.

To abolish any malicious or unnecessary question.

To repeat information and instruction without any bitterness.

To exercise constant patience.

To listen sympathetically to the injuries of neighbors without writing a biography of our own grieves.

To seek without affectation the means of being most useful.

To forgive without excusing oneself.

To say no evil of anyone.

To seek the better side of those persons who share our experience.

To be happy over the happiness of others.

Not to loathe him who works.

To help spontaneously.

To respect the service of others.

To reduce our individual problems.

To serve willingly when sickness strikes us.

• The apprentice in earthly experience who wishes and can apply himself to at least several of the twenty exercises proposed here, will surely receive from the Divine Master, in the school of life, the most outstanding grades in the course of Charity.

Scheilla