In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.

The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.