Ave Maria!— March’s Theme: Imperfections and Sins
“It has never happened that a soul who experienced its weakness and who had recourse to God for help has fallen. Instead, the soul only remained miserably conquered and defeated when, trusting in the imagined abundance of its strength, believes to be able to sustain itself and hold out against temptations. From here it happens that the poor soul, because of its presumption – when it believes itself to be touching heaven – in an instant finds itself hurled down to the gates of hell.”
