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How to use mortifications in a sentence

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To do great mortifications some days, and nothing on others, is not the spirit of penance.
Daughter, I ask you many mortifications to be able to give you, in return, many graces.
There isn't enough time to expand on these matters: suffice it to say that I got no inner peace out of those sacrifices and mortifications.
We are all asked to offer prayers and mortifications for the sanctity of priests during these months.
However, increase them, and also your mortifications.
Nicholas possessed an angelic meekness, a guileless simplicity, and a tender love of virginity which he guarded by prayer and extraordinary mortifications.
Do we offer mortifications, specific acts of detachment in accord with each one's real possibilities, in order to help these brothers and sisters of ours?
We thereby put happy faces on mortifications of our common sense.
But most of these ritualistic mortifications leave me a little queasy.
The chief forms of penance are: accomplishing spiritual exercises, bearing some mortifications or privations, performing some work for the common good.
Examples from Classical Literature
Passive, patient, long-suffering she had been the while the mortifications and slights were for herself.
Neither mortifications of the body Nor self-indulgence should be practised.
Thus the chief justice had a foretaste of the mortifications which the exiled New-Englanders afterwards suffered from the haughty Britons.
Anne herself would have found the mortifications of it more than she foresaw, and to Sir Walter's feelings they must have been dreadful.
But fasting, prayer, study, the mortifications of the cloister, rendered my soul mistress of my body once more, and then I avoided women.
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