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CONVERSION - STRUGGLE AGAINST SIN

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It was well said by St. Gregory of Nazianzen that
whoever does not hold Mary to be the true mother of
God does not believe in the divinity and is an atheist. Kneeling at
your holy feet, O Mary, we proclaim you true mother of God and
we choose you to be now and forever our heavenly mother. (Writings
32)

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And so, my dear friend, when are we really going to start?
In nomine Domini nostri Jesu Christi, right now! (Letters

24)

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Now I start. That is what the great teachers used to say
who have gone before us. Let us also repeat these words

firmly and sincerely in the presence of God. (Letters 36)
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Let us start all over again in earnest. Let us call on the
Holy Spirit to enlighten us. Let us walk in the presence of
God with the simplicity of a little child playing under his
mother’s gaze. (Letters 23)

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As long as we have not yet reached the summit of
perfection, we shall always find ourselves in that circle
(though a source of many merits) of risings and fallings,
of prayer to obtain the grace of a firm resolution, and of a firm
resolution to obtain the grace of prayer. (Letters 52)

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Let us revive our faith. This is the torch that must light up

to us the new and difficult paths of virtue. (Letters 8)