List of points

We were reading — you and I — the heroically ordinary life of that man of God. —And we saw him struggle, for months and years (what 'accounts' he kept in his particular examination!), at breakfast time: today he won, tomorrow he was beaten… He noted: 'Didn't take butter…; did take butter!'

May we too — you and I — live our... 'butter tragedy'.

The general examination implies defence. The particular, attack. The first is your armour. The second, your sword.

Ask for light. Keep on asking, until the root is laid bare and you can get at it with your battle-axe, the particular examination.

Your particular examination should be directed towards the acquisition of a definite virtue or the rooting out of your predominant defect.