A religious once proposed this question: How it could come to pass, that having very good desires, he yet found himself very weak in executing them, and fell into many faults, without advancing to perfection? They to whom he proposed it attributed this weakness to a neglect of attending to himself, a lack of discipline, and each one prescribed what means he judged most profitable. But they prescribing several which he found did him no good at all, he at length addressed himself to an ancient father, well versed in spirituality, who told him that this happened not from a neglect of attending to himself, but rather from a lack of courage and resolution. –St Alonso Rodriguiz

Words of Faith, Hope, and Charity offered to Ann Marie on the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe.