Wednesday, April 2 : Venerable Pius XII

What is fatherhood? To be a Father is to communicate being; even more, it is to place within this being the mysterious ray of life. God is the Father of the universe: “For us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things” (1 Cor 8:6). God is the Father, the Creator of the heavens, the sun, and the stars that shine in his presence and sing his glory (…); all this immense and varied life is the child of God’s love, directed, sustained, and enveloped in its growth and development by divine paternal Providence. (…) Now fatherhood rises higher: with being, with plant and animal life, it communicates a higher life, the life of intelligence and love. (…) Angels and humans are children of God and manifest Him through the image and likeness that, in the natural order, they received from Him. Finally, God possesses a still more sublime paternity, which engenders sons of adoption and grace in an order superior to the natures of man and the angels, and which makes them participants in the divine life itself: it calls them to share His own beatitude in the vision of His essence, in the inaccessible light where He reveals himself and the intimate secret of His incomparable paternity, with the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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