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1. Religious consecration and the apostolic calling impel the brothers more than the rest of the faithful to practice self-denial. By taking up their cross and carrying in their own body and soul the sufferings of Jesus, they earn the glory of the resurrection for themselves and for others.
2. Imitating Saint Dominic who, ‘when he was living with us in the flesh, walked by the Spirit, not only not fulfilling the desires of the flesh, but actually quenching them at the source,’1 the brothers should practice the virtue of penance especially by observing faithfully all that belongs to our life.