Partakers of the Divine Nature

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Sermon on how great a gift God has given us to be a partaker in the Divine Nature. So great is the beauty of a soul in the state of grace, that God Himself extols it. How beautiful art thou! How beautiful art thou! (Cant. iv. 1). The Lord appears never to take His eyes off the soul that loves Him, nor to close His ears to its petitions. The eyes of the Lord are upon the just: and his ears unto their prayers (Ps. xxxiii. 16). St. Bridget used to say that one could not behold the beauty of a soul in the grace of God and not die for very joy. And St. Catherine of Sienna seeing a soul in the state of grace, said that she would willingly have given her life to prevent that soul from losing such beauty. Hence she kissed the ground on which priests walked, because through them souls recover the grace of God. St. Francis de Sales used to say that, were the Angels capable of weeping they would shed tears of pity at the sight of a soul that commits mortal sin and loses the divine grace. St Alphonsus on the St Francis' thought continued with "but the great misfortune is that the Angels would weep, if it were in their power to do so, and the sinner himself weeps not!" For more please visit http://www.romans10seventeen.org & remember to say 3 Hail Marys for the priest. St Alphonsus' meditation for the week http://www.religiousbookshelf.com/meditations-and-readings/week/121