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Maximilian, you will in God’s good time-if you are teachable and docile, that is. Repeated sin can be painful, and in the midst of our humiliation, we may wonder if we will ever find victory. According to St. A lesson in the school of Christ Our Lady, seat of Wisdom, pray for us. Maximilian is writing to those who have entrusted themselves entirely to Our Lady’s care). The crushing humiliation we feel with each fall can be a good thing if it drives us to dependence on Mary, and through Mary, Jesus, for our every need (keep in mind, St. Repeated sin, then, breaks down any illusions we have that we can do it on our own. We would have no idea how pathetic and weak we really are, or how dependent we are on the grace of God for even the smallest good act. The problem is, if we could conquer ourselves through sheer willpower, we would quickly become self-reliant and proud. We must first learn humility before we can make any real progress in holiness. This is essential because pride is the number one enemy of the soul, and no matter how much we seem to advance in the spiritual life, it is all an illusion if we are infected with pride and self-reliance. Maximilian is saying that we are allowed to fall so that we learn humility. If we knew the depth of our poverty, we would not be at all surprised by our falls, but rather astonished, and we would thank God, after sinning, for not allowing us to fall even deeper and still more frequently. The devil, instead, tries to inject in us discouragement and internal depression in those circumstances, which is, in fact, nothing else than our pride surfacing again. In fact, the only reason why the Immaculate permits us to fall is to cure us from our self-conceit, from our pride, to make us humble and thus make us docile to the divine graces. My beloved, may every fall, even if it is serious and habitual sin, always become for us a small step toward a higher degree of perfection.
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Whenever you feel guilty, offer all your guilt to the Immaculate, without analyzing it or examining it, as something that belongs to her… Whenever you feel guilty, even if it is because you have consciously committed a sin, a serious sin, something you have kept doing many, many times, never let the devil deceive you by allowing him to discourage you. Maximilian Kolbe, whose feast day is today, has some advice. But how do we handle this kind of repeated sin without falling into despair? St. We’ve all been there-struggles like this are a part of the Catholic life. But no matter how much you hate the presence of this sin in your life, you just can’t stop committing it. In confession, you find yourself humiliated to be confessing the same serious matter yet again. You are constantly feeling guilty, and the guilt keeps you from approaching Our Lord through fear. You want with all your heart to break this sin’s power in your life, but no matter how hard you struggle and pray, you just keep falling into it. Have you ever struggled with a grave sin? I mean something really serious.