Dear friend who have come to this church to honor Mary on Her traditional “May Crowning”, please, remember that:

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.

Whenever you feel guilty, let us offer all your guilt to Mary, without analyzing, or examining it, as something that belongs now to her. Then let us try to please her in the action that immediately follows.

In this way every fall, even if it is a serious and habitual sin, always become for us a small step toward a higher degree of perfection.

The devil tries to inject in us discouragement and internal depression in those circumstances, which is, in fact, nothing else than our pride surfacing again.

We should allow our Blessed Mother to lead us the way she pleases, not as we would wish, to use freely whatever means are necessary for our sanctification.