Signs of Lukewarmness

I always wondered what the criteria was for lukewarmness!

"Signs of lukewarmness:

• To have little or no regard for venial sin, and to fear only mortal sin;
• to perform one's spiritual exercises out of a spirit of routine or human respect, with disgust and with negligence reflected
• upon and consented to;
• to pray habitually without attention;
• to confess one's faults lightly, without the serious resolution of avoiding them;
• to communicate without devotion, by not striving to obtain it;
• to perform one's daily actions without the proper intention, without order or method;
• to be given over to exterior things;
• to be rarely present to one's self, and yet more rarely to have God present;
• to renounce the exercise of great virtues, even those whose practice is suited to one's state or profession;
• to be content with a state of mediocrity;
• to shun the company of those who work with ardor for their perfection;
• to seek the company of those who are more dissipated, less fervent and less regular;
• to form an erroneous conscience, the cause of which superiors and directors often attribute to lack of good judgement;
• to employ false principles to silence remorse;
• to nourish, despite the frequent use of the sacraments, interior aversions, jealousies, movements of pride, and particular and dangerous affections;
• to encourage a spirit of harshness, insubordination and cavilling, which manifests itself in offensive and contentious words;
• to entertain continually a secret self-love, which, mingling in all one's actions, corrupts and infects them with its virus;
• lastly, to shirk whatever entails labor and self-abnegation, and to seek rather for comforts, futile consolations, and ease."

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