(1760). My daughter, I want to teach you about spiritual warfare.

• Never trust in yourself, but abandon yourself totally to My will.

• In desolation, darkness and various doubts, have recourse to Me and to your spiritual director. He will always answer you in My name.

• Do not bargain with any temptation; lock yourself immediately in My Heart and, at the first opportunity, reveal the temptation to the confessor.

• Put your self-love in the last place, so that it does not taint your deeds.

• Bear with yourself with great patience.

• Do not neglect interior mortifications.

• Always justify to yourself the opinions of your superiors and of your confessor.

• Shun murmurers like a plague.

• Let all act as they like; you are to act as I want you to.

• Observe the rule as faithfully as you can.

• If someone causes you trouble, think what good you can do for the person who caused you to suffer.

• Do not pour out your feelings.

• Be silent when you are rebuked.

• Do not ask everyone’s opinion, but only the opinion of your confessor; be as frank and simple as a child with him.

• Do not become discouraged by ingratitude.

• Do not examine with curiosity the roads down which I lead you.

• When boredom and discouragement beat against your heart, run away from yourself and hide in My heart.

• Do not fear struggle; courage itself often intimidates temptations, and they dare not attack us.

• Always fight with the deep conviction that I am with you.

• Do not be guided by feeling, because it is not always under your control; but all merit lies in the will.

• Always depend upon your superiors, even in the smallest things.

• I will not delude you with prospects of peace and consolations; on the contrary, prepare for great battles.

• Know that you are now on a great stage where all heaven and earth are watching you.

• Fight like a knight, so that I can reward you.

• Do not be unduly fearful, because you are not alone.