Brothers and sisters, peace be with you. I read this short paragraph in Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange’s first volume of The Three Ages of the Spiritual Life that I thought would benefit you:
The angel and the human soul become capable of a supernatural knowledge of God and a supernatural love only if they have received this divine graft, habitual or sanctifying grace, which is a participation in the divine nature and in the inner life of God. Only this grace, received in the essence of our soul as a free gift, can render the soul radically capable of essentially divine operations, can make it capable of seeing God immediately as He sees Himself and of loving Him as He loves Himself. In other words, the deification of the intellect and that of the will presuppose the deification of the soul itself (in its essence), whence these faculties spring. When this grace is consummated and inamissible, it is called glory…
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