The Church shows us the path which leads to transcendence. Penitence, the regret for wrongdoing and the humble realization of one's general moral shortcoming, accompanied by a strong and sincere resolution to change one's behavior in order to meet God's will, is the first step toward transcendence. Prayer, the act of communicating with God, and meditation, that of thinking to our littlenes in the Cosmos, are two different ways to attain transcendence. The latter is this attitude of cultivating the spiritual values and of getting loose of the material goods that we cannot bring with us eternally. It incites us to forget our immediate needs and to think to our salvation³ that we can earn only by well-doing (or good writing). It shows us the path laid out by Christ, our savior, that of resignation without grumbling, hoping without desponding, supporting without revolting, and loving instead of hating.