Him by an habitual loving-mindfulness of heart, a kind of instinct which is no uncommon growth of prayer, and comes sooner than would be expected when men strive to serve God out of the single motive of holy love.
For the perfection of our ordinary actions, we should do them in the sight of Jesus, that is, to use the words of the missal, by Christ, with Christ, and in Christ To do our actions by Christ, is to do them in dependence upon Him, as He did everything in dependence on His Father, and by the movement of His Spirit. To do our actions with Christ is to practise the same virtues as our Lord, to clothe ourselves with the same dispositions, and to act from the same intentions, all according to the measure of the lowliness of our possibilities. To do our actions in Christ is to unite ours with His, and to offer them to God along with His, so that for the sake of His, they may be accepted on high.
Theological Definition of the Presence of God.
When one speaks of the presence of God, there are two ways of looking upon it. The first, is that God is present to us, that is to say, that we think of Him, and that, in the eyes of faith, we look upon His Divine Being as intimately present in the place in which we are. The second, is that we are present to God, that is to say, that He sees us, and is always looking upon us, so that nothing escapes His observation — words, deeds, thoughts, desires, and intentions— and that wherever we may be, we may always have Him for a spectator, witness, and judge of all that we do. That should we act well or ill, such actions are always in His presence and before His eyes.
