Index to Pages
on
God's Divine Plan/
God's Eternal Plan/
God's Divine Providence/
God's Plan of Salvation
CCC321 - Divine Providence consists of
the Dispositions by which God Guides all His
Creatures with Wisdom and Love to their
Ultimate End.
CCC1949 - Called to Beatitude, but
Wounded by Sin, Man stands in Need of
Salvation from God.
Divine Help comes to him in Christ through the
Law that Guides him and the Grace that Sustains him:
Work out your own Salvation with Fear and Trembling; for God is at Work in you, both to Will and to
Work for His Good Pleasure (Philippians 2:12-13).
CCC54 - God,
Who Creates and Conserves all things by His Word, provides Men with Constant
Evidence of Himself in Created Realities. and furthermore, wishing to open up the Way to
Heavenly Salvation - He Manifested
Himself to our First Parents from the Very Beginning.
He Invited them to Intimate Communion with
Himself and Clothed them with Resplendent Grace and
Justice.
CCC55 - This Revelation was not Broken-off by our First Parents'
Sin. After the Fall, God
buoyed them up with the Hope of Salvation, by Promising
Redemption; and He has never Ceased to show
His Solicitude for the Human Race. For He Wishes to give
Eternal Life to all those who seek Salvation by
Patience in Well-Doing.
Even when he Disobeyed You and Lost Your Friendship You did not Abandon him to the Power of Death . . .
Again and again You Offered a Covenant to Man.
God Guides everything by His All-Powerful
Providence. To begin to understand that which is so Profound, as to Cause Saint
Paul to Exclaim (Romans 11:33), "O the Depths of the Riches of the Wisdom and
Knowledge of God. How Incomprehensible are His Judgments, and Untraceable His Ways"!
(by Father Paul A. Duffner, O.P.)
(Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Doctor of the Church, was a voice announcing the Glad Tidings
of the Infinite Love of God for Humanity, especially for Sinners, at a time when Jansenism
had spread a Coldness and Rigorism over so many sectors of the Church.)
(by Theologian, Father William G. Most)
(Encyclical of Pope John Paul II promulgated on March 25, 1987. The Mother of the
Redeemer has a Precise Place in the Plan of Salvation, for "when the time had fully come, God sent forth His Son, Born of
Woman, Born under the Law, to Redeem those who were Under the Law, so that we might Receive Adoption as Sons. And because you are
Sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our Hearts, crying, 'Abba! Father!'" (Galatians 4:4-6))
(From the Catholic Encyclopedia; a look at the Salvation/Redemption of those who Died
before the Passion and Death of Jesus.)
(From the Catholic Catechism)
(by Father Paul A. Duffner, O.P.)
(by Father Paul A. Duffner, O.P.)
(by Theologian, Father William G. Most)
(by Father Paul K. Raftery, O.P.)
(by Father Paul K. Raftery, O.P.)
(by Father Paul K. Raftery, O.P.)
(from the EWTN Library)
(by Theologian, Father William G. Most)
(by Father John Hardon, S.J.)
(From the Catholic Catechism and various other Sources)
Prayer to Divine Providence
O Sweet and Tender Providence of God, into Thy Hands I commend my Spirit, to Thee I
abandon myself, my Hopes, my Fears, my Desires, my Repugnance's, my Temporal and Eternal Prospects. To Thee I commit the Wants of my
Perishable Body, to Thee I commit the far more Precious Interests of my Immortal Soul, for whose interests I have Nothing to Fear while
I withdraw it not from Thy Bosom. Though my Faults are many, my Misery Great, my Spiritual Poverty Extreme, my Hope in Thee surpasses all.
It is Greater than my Difficulties, Stronger than Death. Though Temptations should Assail me, I will Hope in Thee, though I should Sink
beneath my Weakness, I will Hope in Thee still, though I should Break my Resolutions a Thousand Times, I will look to Thee Confidently
for Grace to keep them at last; though Thou shouldst Slay me, even then will I Trust Thee, for Thou art my God, my Father and my Friend.
Thou art my Kind, my Tender, my Indulgent Parent, and I am Thy Loving Child, who cast myself into Thy Arms and beg Thy Blessing, who put
my Trust in Thee, and so Trusting, shall Never be Confounded.
Amen
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God's Divine Plan
God Guides Everything by His All-Powerful Providence. Divine Providence consists of the Dispositions by
which God Guides all His Creatures with Wisdom and Love, to their Ultimate End. After our First Parents' Fall, Original Sin, God buoyed
them up with the Hope of Salvation, by Promising Redemption; and He has never Ceased to show His Solicitude for the Human Race. For He
wishes to give Eternal Life to all those who seek Salvation by Patience in Well-Doing.
