GUIDELINES FOR SALVATION

One of the great means to come to love your fellow people is not to listen about their shortcomings.  When our human nature learns about the sins of others, it abhors not the sins but the persons who have committed them.

Whoever sets oneself in a grave danger of sin, has already become guilty of a grave sin.  It is a mortal sin to place oneself in such a grave danger without justifiable reason.  Whoever does not avoid a proximate occasion of sin commits a grave sin, unless that occasion was necessary.

When you find yourself in an unavoidable proximate occasion of a mortal sin, you should above all, pray God to be with you and to help you.  You should act hurriedly in the least possible way, and recall to your mind the Last Things, for these have a divine power on the will.

From the Writings of St.George Preca, the Maltese Saint.