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through penance and austerity to strengthen the will in the practice of virtue and grow in the likeness of Christ.

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Operating Grace	Degradation	Transitional Diaconate
Canonical Life	Natural Virtue	Vatican City
Hieronymites	Penetrability	Evangelica Testificatio
Requiem	Legend of the Saints	Sacramental Dispositions
Miracle of Grace	Fatalism	Jubal
Whole Christ	Uniat Churches	Bogomiles
Quanta Cura	Guest Master	Zealot
Indefectibility	Antiochene Rite	Knowledge of God
Prosphora	New Testament Names and Titles of Christ	Twelve Promises [of the Sacred Heart of Jesus]
Original Impassibility	Ephpheta	Word and Deed
Novitiate	Gilbertines	Last Gospel
Oil of the Sick	Kevelaer	Brothers' Institutes
Schismatic	Deo Optimo Maximo	Unjust Aggressor
Reformation	Declaration of Nullity	Fifteen Marks of the Church
Lumen Gentium	Apostolic Delegate	Herodians
Mortification

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Wow — that has to be the most interesting CWOD I have ever seen.

I know what the secular meaning of “mortification” is of course (and the Southernism “Ah am MORTIFIED!”

But used in terms of “killing” one’s sinful desires is a new one (that I can’t wait to use!)