HOW TO BE SAVED

A prayer card issued by Mother of the Savior Seminary, Blackwood, NJ lists the things necessary for salvation:

1. Belief in God

2. Hope in God

3. Love God

4. Being sorry for offending God

5. Adoring God

6. Aspiring after God

7. Thanking God

8. Calling upon God

9. Being led, restrained, comforted and defended by God

10. Consecrating all thoughts, words, actions and sufferings to God.

11. Referring all actions to God's Glory

12. Suffering whatever God appoints

13. Desiring God's will

14. Having understanding enlightened, will inflamed, body purified and soul sanctified

15. Expiating offences, overcoming temptations, subduing passions, acquiring virtues

16. Loving God's goodness, hating my faults, loving my neighbor, having contempt for the world.

17. Being submissive to superiors, courteous to inferiors, faithful to friends and charitable to enemies

18. Overcoming sensuality, avarice, anger and tepidity

19. Being prudent, courageous, patient and humble

20. Being attentive at prayer; temperate at meals; diligent in employment; constant in resolutions

21. Having a pure conscience, being modest, letting conversation be edifying and deportment regular

22. Laboring to overcome nature, working with God's Grace, keeping His commandments and working out my salvation

23. Seeing the nothingness of this world, the greatness of heaven, the shortness of time and the length of eternity

24. Preparing for death, fearing God's judgments, thereby to escape hell and in the end obtain salvation.