The Glories of Divine Grace

1. “All good things came to me together with her, and innumerable riches through her hands. She is an infinite treasure to men, which they that use, become the friends of God, being commended for the gifts of discipline.”

These beautiful words which the Book of Wisdom speaks in praise of the wisdom that comes from God, may also be applied to Divine grace. The true and heavenly wisdom of which Holy Scripture speaks, is, indeed, that super natural enlightenment which the sun of eternal wisdom infuses into our souls from the bosom of Divine light. This wisdom is itself a grace, or rather the most beautiful and glorious fruit of grace in our soul.

When, therefore, St. John, in the beginning of his Gospel, wishes to express in a word the whole plenitude of the treasures and gifts which the Son of God brought into this world at His Incarnation, he says: “We saw His glory, the glory as it were of the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. “Grace again it is which the Apostle Paul, at the beginning and at the end of his Epistles, wishes the faithful: “Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.” We do not hesitate, then, to say that grace is the most precious, and, since it contains all other gifts, is the only great good, which is the subject of the Gospel, that joyful heavenly message brought to this earth by the Son of God. By grace we are made true children of God and acquire the right to the possession of the highest gifts that God can bestow upon His creatures, even to the possession of God Himself, who wishes to become the inheritance of His children, with all His infinite glory and happiness.