6. Pray to Our Lady
There's something I want you to promise me. Each night, from now on, I want you to say one Hail Mary to Our Lady for the grace to keep pure. She will help you.

Our Lady is the model of purity, because God made her perfect in body and soul, to make her fit to be His Mother. He made her soul sinless from the first moment of her conception in the womb of St Anne. He made her body perfect, and kept her always a virgin. This means that Our Lady conceived Our Lord without receiving the seed from any man, and gave birth to Him without any opening of her womb. As we say in the Apostles' Creed, Our Lord 'was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mary'. And in the Catechism, we say 'Jesus Christ had no father on earth: St Joseph was only His guardian or foster-father'. It was all done by the power of God, by a miracle.

In this way, God made Our Lady the model of purity for everyone: for married people, because she is the Mother of God; for unmarried people, because she remained always a virgin, as unmarried people are bound to do.

Most boys marry when they grow up, and marriage is a real vocation from God. It is one of the seven Sacraments. But to some boys, God gives the special vocation to remain unmarried and pure for His sake, either as a priest, or lay-brother, or in ordinary life. Whichever way you think God is calling you, you must follow. That will be the best way to heaven for you.

Now, I think I have explained everything to you. But come and talk to me about these things whenever you like. I promise to help.