“I want to hope that, with the help of the Immaculate, you will succeed in bringing to completion that which you have begun and to persevere in religion all the way to a glorious death. The truth is that it wouldn’t be at all worthy of a knight to desert for any reason. Life is so short, these few years that we live on this earth pass so quickly: how could one deprive these years of the offering which we made of them to the Immaculate?” (SK #813)
