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Spiritual Checkup - Have I Failed To:

    1. Respect everyone - Christ lives in everyone:

• Be sensitive to others. They are your brothers and sisters.

    2. Think well of everyone - think ill of no one:

• Try to find something good even in the worst circumstances.

    3. Always speak well of others:

• Do not cast a slur on anyone.
• Repair any harm resulting from an uttered word.
• Do not provoke strife between people.

    4. Speak to everyone in the language of love:

• Do not raise your voice.
• Do not swear.
• Do not vex others.
• Do not provoke tears.
• Reassure others.
• Show a kind heart.

    5. Forgive everyone everything:

• Do not hold grudges.
• Always be the first to extend your hand a sign of reconciliation.

    6. Act always to your neighbor's advantage:

• Do good things to others, as you would like them done to you.
• Never give a thought to what others owe you, but always to what you owe them.

    7. Be actively compassionate in time of suffering:

• Be quick to offer consolation, council, assistance, kindness.

    8. Work conscientiously:

• Others benefit from the fruits of your labor, just as you benefit from the labors of others.

    9. Be active in your community:

• Be open to the poor and the sick.
• Share your goods.
• Try to see the needs of those around you.

    10. Pray for everyone, even your enemies.

Cardinal Stefan Wysznyski (1900 - 1981)

Excerpted from Love One Another Catholic Magazine,
"The ABC's of the Crusade for Love", Back Cover, Vol. 1/September 2003.

Provided courtesy of 'Love One Another': A publication of The Society of Christ
(Society of Christ Provincial House, 3000 Eighteenth Mile Road, Sterling Heights, MI 48314 USA)