If you are a girl, God has given you a marvellous power here. You have it in your hands to decide whether you are going to be an angel guardian to your boy, or a pawn in the devil‟s game to sweep him off his feet. Remember, you are the stronger of the two. God has made you so, and in consequence yours is the greater responsibility. Your boy will succumb more easily than you. It is easier for him to sin than for you. Hence help him to be loyal to Christ. Do not be his mortal enemy, stealing up to the door of his tabernacle, laying siege to it, and ultimately battering it in pieces. The world will tell you: You love each other, therefore indulge in passionate signs of this love, and make sure you go into places where you are free to do so. The Catholic’s answer comes readily: No, we are not going to do these things; we are not going into these places, just precisely because we do love each other. True love proves itself by sacrifice.
Again, if you are a girl (for if our girls are pure our boys will be pure, too), your strength of character will win that boy‟s affection and admiration, if he is a boy worthy of your love. He will realize that you are a treasure worth having, not a toy to be played with and then cast aside when the whim takes him. Your loyalty to Christ and God‟s Law may lose you, indeed, a popinjay who is out for “a good time,” but have no fear that you will lose a man worthy of your heart‟s affection. And, even if you were never to marry, to die rather than offend God, especially by mortal sin, is heroism. “I would rather die keeping God‟s Law than live breaking it,” said a fine girl of this type. But it is not God‟s way to allow Himself to be outdone in generosity. Stand loyal to Him and His Law, and you are safe in entrusting your future to His hands.
