Commentary on My Catholic Faith: Divine Providence

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen. God knows us and loves us thus sustaining and governing the world. Everything happens either because God actively actualizes it or because God allows something to be actualized by another being. This loving cared is called Divine Providence. Divine Providence applies to everyone from the highest kings and presidents to the wretched and despised sinner. In fact, Divine Providence is more manifest and special for the little people of the world.

Divine Providence is good, and actually allows evil for the sake of good. Physical evil is the result of a lack within the body and mind of creatures such that there is suffering. It is revealed to us that it is partly a punishment for sin and it serves to sanctify or make holy the good, thus increasing their merit for heaven. God never sends anyone suffering beyond their strength. Sanctification is gained when we freely resign under suffering with patience. Physical evil can be used as a warning against the sinner to turn them back to repentance. Sufferings can also be our way to pay our punishment for sin.

In this world, we do not encounter God in His fullness, therefore we may reason that it is after some time after this world that we encounter God in His fullness, therefore true justice in reward or punishment shall be received in that time, in what we call the afterlife. God cannot will something which He is not, that is sin. God instead allows sin to happen, but even things He allow happen for His own reasons. He can and does draw good out of evil. Remember, it is out of Christ’s death that the redemption and sanctification of the world done. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen.

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