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WHAT GOD DOES EVERY DAY FOR MAN
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CHAPTER XXII.

What God does every Day for Man.

THERE is not a day, nor a moment, in which man does not receive from God some fresh benefit; for every day and every moment God creates him by preserving him in being. Every moment God ministers to him through His creatures, through heaven, air, earth, sea, and all things therein.

Every day He gives him His grace, calling him from evil to good, guarding him from sin, and when he has sinned, helping him that he may sin no more. He waits for him, calls him to repentance, and when he comes to Him, is more ready to forgive than he to desire forgiveness. Every day He sends him His Son, with all the riches of the Mysteries of the Cross, rendering Him ever present with him in the Sacrament of the Altar.


CHAPTER XXIII.

How great is the Goodness of our God in waiting for and bearing with the Sinner.

TO know the greatness of the Goodness of our God in supporting the sinner, con-