Ave Maria Meditations
One big fault I note in you: discouragement. That must come out of your life at once, my child. Use your fault as steppingstones to better things. Don’t bemoan your faults and falls, but quietly take it out of yourself for having given into nature, and then with a smiling face begin again. Try every day to get a little closer to Jesus.
In spite of all our efforts, we fall into faults from time to time. God permits this for two reasons: one is to keep the soul humble, and to make it realize it’s utter powerlessness when left alone without His fostering hand, and two, because the act of sorrow after the fault not only washes it away completely, but immensely increases our merit, and being an act of humility, bringing us really heartbroken to His feet which delights Him beyond measure.
The Servant of God, Fr.Willie Doyle, S. J.
