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.

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

The will of God is single and totally one in Him.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.