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External mortification [of our sight, hearing,
taste, smell and touch] is necessary in order
to mortify the disorderly appetites and senses of the body, and interior
mortification of our passions [love, hatred, desire, aversion, joy, sadness,
courage, fear, hope, despair and anger] is necessary in order to mortify the
irregular affections of the soul.
Interior mortification is more excellent than exterior, both because it
has a nobler object, the soul and its powers, and because the exterior ought to
proceed from the interior.
Father Charles Hugo Doyle