Canon Agostino Berteu, who died in 1913 in the odour of sanctity, wrote: Brief meditations for every day of the year.
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Be convinced of the necessity of meditation if you want to escape sin and learn union with God, which is proper to holy souls. Do at least 15 or, why not? 20-25-30 minutes of meditation Don't you have time today? OR RATHER, DO YOU LACK THE WILL?
THE NEW YEAR 1 January
1. It is a gift from God. God, inexhaustible in his goodness, although not at all obliged, gives it to me, who am perhaps the most unworthy to receive it. A father who sees his son abuse his goodness changes his ways. God sees how many years we have already wasted, indeed perhaps foresees the abuse of this year itself, and yet he gives it to us. What do you think? Will you always be ungrateful to him? Will you waste this new year too in petty vanities?
2. It is one more account. Every grace received will weigh on the divine scales, the months, days, hours, and minutes of the new year will appear in the judgement before me, and will be a source of joy if spent well; but if spent badly or uselessly, like so many years gone by, I will have to give a strict account of them.
3. How to sanctify it. Promise to diminish your faults and grow in goodness. The Imitation of Christ says: If you amended at least one fault each year, how soon you would be a saint! We have not done so in the past: this year, let us target a single sin, a single vice, and eradicate it. Jesus commands: Estote perfecti (Matth. v, 48); but before we are perfect, how many steps must we still climb? Let us propose to do at least one thing better, one practice of piety, one devotion.
PRACTICE. - Offer all the moments of this year to God, consecrating them to his glory, and repeating often throughout the day: Everything for you, O my God.
Translated from Italian with Deepl.com