Let Us Remember The Devil Labors Hard

Yet You Should Practice The Greatest Possible Love And Confidence In Treating With Him.

After The Love Which We Owe Jesus Christ, We Must Give The Chief Place In Our Heart To The Love Of His Mother Mary.

We Must Show Charity Towards The Sick, Who Are In Greater Need Of Help. Let Us Take Them Some Small Gift If They Are Poor, Or, At Least Let Us Go And Wait On Them And Comfort Them.

Devil Does Not Bring Sinners To Hell With Their Eyes Open: He First Blinds Them With The Malice Of Their Own Sins. He Thus Leads Them To Eternal Perdition. Before We Fall Into Sin, The Enemy Labours To Blind Us, That We May Not See The Evil We Do, And The Ruin We Bring Upon Ourselves By Offending God. After We Commit Sin, He Seeks To Make Us Dumb, That, Through Shame, We May Conceal Our Guilt In Confession.

St. Jerome Declares That He Holds For Certain, And Has Learned From Experience, That He Will Never Make A Good End Who Has Led A Bad Life To The Very Last: 'this I Hold, This I Have Learned By Much Experience, That His Will Be An Evil End Who Has Always Led An Evil Life.'