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Final Advice in Regard to Holy Communion
The natural virtues are gratuitous gifts of God. The world is right in esteeming them for they come from Him, but it errs when it esteems them exclusively for they do not of themselves give us any title to heaven. God has placed them at the disposal of our will as means to an end, and we can make a good or bad use of them just as we can of all God's other gifts. We may be deprived of these natural virtues and live by the will alone, spiritually dry and devoid of sentiment, and yet in a state of intimate union with God.
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~ Light and Peace, R.P. Quadrupani, Barnabite (1904), written in 1795.
Sedes Sapientiæ, ora pro nobis.
Seat of Wisdom, pray for us.
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