Duty(ies)

"Know how to care for the rights and duties of the Soul. Its rights to the true Life. The Soul dies if it is kept away from God." (The Notebooks of 1943, October 21)

In "The Gospel as Revealed to Me"

• Truly I tell you, no one should boast about doing their own duty and demand special Confessions for this, which is a duty. and

In Maria Valtorta's Other Works

The Notebooks of 1943

• Catechesis of July 22 : You have betrayed your duties. You believed everything was permitted to you because you stupidly thought that God was at your service. You thought that my Justice approved your faults, your acts of Violence, your idolatry. The more God was good and merciful, the more you took advantage.
• Catechesis of August 31 : It is dishonest to fail in your duties toward God, to steal from Him the loving respect that the human being owes to his Creator. It is dishonest to use your gifts for evil Actions. All these gifts, especially the gift of life.
• Catechesis of October 21 : Know how to care for the rights and duties of the Soul. Its rights to true Life. The Soul dies if it is kept away from God.
• Catechesis of December 8 : To every gift from God corresponds a gift from the one who has received it. Every election involves terrible and gentle duties alike, which become a source of eternal joy when the trial is over.

In Fundamental Christian Texts

In the Bible

• Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

In the Catechism of the Catholic Church

• Their participation (the faithful) in the royal mission of Christ: temporal duties and spiritual duties.
• The Good of all: Development is the summary of all social duties.

That leads to nothing, is useless, wastes time. (Example: to ask an idle question).