Thou oughtest not to let a day pass in which you hast not trampled upon thy will; and if such a thing should happen, consider that on that day you hast not been a religious. - Saint John ClimacusThou oughtest not to let a day pass in which you hast not trampled upon thy will; and if such a thing should happen, consider that on that day you hast not been a religious. - Saint John Climacus
Saint Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi was extremely fond of not doing her own will, and made a study of it, so that she regarded that day as utterly lost in which she had not in some manner broken and denied it.
- text taken from A Year with the Saints, composed by an unknown Italian, translated by a member of the Order of Mercy; it has the Imprimatur of Archbishop Michael Augustine Corrigan, Archdiocese of New York, New York, 21 January 1891