Love is as communicative as fire, as busy and as active... - Jeremy Taylor

By a daily examination of our actions we shall the easier cure a great sin, and prevent its arrival to become habitual. For to examine we suppose to be a relative duty, and instrumental to something else. We examine ourselves, that we may find out our failings and cure them; and therefore if we use our remedy when the wound is fresh and bleeding, we shall find the cure more certain and less painful.

...for there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens...

The sacraments and ceremonies of the gospel operate not without the concurrent actions and moral influences of the suscipient.